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Lynne Roberts (robertsl@psychology.curtin.edu.au) wrote:
: In contrast, I am frequently sexually harrassed if I assume a 
: female "nick" while MUDing, MOOing or chatting. I, like many other 
: females tend to use a male or gender-neutral identity when pursuing 
: these activities as I do not enjoy, indeed find it insulting, to be
: "hit on" solely on the basis of having a female name.

An interesting corollary situation to this that I've encountered
as a male who's *NOT* trying to hit up on net women, is that every
now and then *I* end up being the one who gets hit on by "women"
(the quotes implying only that one is never certain of anything
out here...).  While I'm hardly prudish, and it certainly doesn't 
embarrass me (though I'm not sure if I'd REELY want my wife looking
over my shoulder right about then...), it does produce a kind of
head-scratching dissonance.  If I respond in kind, am I not then
assuming the role of the stereotypical net.dickhead?  Sometimes,
the rules are a little fuzzy, here; does anybody have that "How
To Make Life Easy" manual around that I could borrow for a while?

Totally non-cosmic, and only vaguely related to the subject at hand,
but a little bit interesting...  

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