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Study of men who embodied a young woman in VR finds they felt disgust & anger when catcalled
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this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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One time I was one of the very first people to play an MMO so my friends and I all grabbed up some really good names that are always taken before we start. I made six characters, two female, one of which I named “Beyonce” and put effort into making it look as much like her as possible.
On five of the characters people pretty much ignored me entirely, as usual. But when I played Beyonce people wanted to talk to me all the time. They would constantly invite me to stuff, give me things, name drop me in chat. Just kind of gather around me in town. Even other men who were playing female characters just assumed I was a woman.
I don’t know what it was about that character specifically, but it was a valuable insight into the life of women.
A running joke could be renaming the genders as "solo" and "co-op" for MMOs.
I had an extremely similar experience. It was astonishing how quick people assume you are a woman simply by having decent enough grammar and aren't a shitty person.
At least in an MMO it's not dangerous feeling. If anything, it kind of makes it easier to lead groups since you can get people to just do stuff with you. Not great insight into being a women though, people don't generally accept female leadership irl.
This is true, as you are kinda protected by the avatar and screen as layers between you and the others. I'd imagine the fear can definitely seep into gaming as well though, if you start getting harassing private messages and all that
I know what we are doing today, Ferb.