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[Goldenboko]

If I don't already know a user, a person posting with an avatar of the opposite gender confuses me until I look at his or her profile. Am I the only one? Avatars are like your face to me, so having a hawt chick and then posting about your penis length makes me double check. Like. 'Wait, what?'

Topic: Using avatars of the opposite sex, confusing? Yay? Or Nay?

[PuPu]

Not really. I just think, "maybe that's a pic of his girlfriend or her boyfriend."

[Goldenboko]

Not really. I just think, "maybe that's a pic of his girlfriend or her boyfriend."

It's not being a specific person that confuses me, but when I see "Anime Chick Avatar" chick registers in my brain if I know nothing about the person. Non-gender related things seems to not matter though

[demondude]

Yay. I always imagine the user looking like the avatar, so for instance if somebody said "Goldenboko" I would think of that small bird with red boobies. Psychotic is a pig/baby, Rubah is Edward Cullen, and so forth. You are all just images to me.

[PuPu]

Oh, in that case I think "maybe this guy just really likes this girl from that anime."

example: Ultima Shadow

[Goldenboko]

Yay. I always imagine the user looking like the avatar, so for instance if somebody said "Goldenboko" I would think of that small bird with red boobies. Psychotic is a pig/baby, Rubah is Edward Cullen, and so forth. You are all just images to me.

This dude knows where its at.

[Breine]

I think I now know the gender of the majority of the top posters around here, but yes.. I have been fooled in the past by avatars.

[Bunny]

I determine gender by the way a person writes. Men and women, to me, have a distinct way of expressing things via words and it makes it incredibly easy for me to tell whether or not they are a girl or a guy. Sometimes I am wrong, but for the most part it works.

Avatars for me are a way of simply telling two people apart without looking at the name. Momiji and Loony BoB currently piss me off.

[PuPu]

Not all sites have posts that include avatars. So my mental image of what people on a site look like mostly are based on their username and the way they post.

[Goldenboko]

I determine gender by the way a person writes. Men and women, to me, have a distinct way of expressing things via words and it makes it incredibly easy for me to tell whether or not they are a girl or a guy. Sometimes I am wrong, but for the most part it works.

Avatars for me are a way of simply telling two people apart without looking at the name. Momiji and Loony BoB currently piss me off.

Person who also knows where it's at. Momiji's Bawb set was making me want to stab him repeatedly.

[Meat Puppet]

Anime Chick Avatar nearly always denotes male.

[Psychotic]

Step One: Get anime chick avatar.
Step Two: Convince Goldenboko to go out with me because I am a female.
Step Three: Our spawn shall inherit this Earth.

[Breine]

Avatars for me are a way of simply telling two people apart without looking at the name. Momiji and Loony BoB currently piss me off.

Qft.

[Goldenboko]

Step One: Get anime chick avatar.
Step Two: Convince Goldenboko to go out with me because I am a female.
Step Three: Our spawn shall inherit this Earth.
Step Four: ????
Step Five: Profit

[Psychotic]

Step Six: Facepalm 9001 times because you lost moar of the game!