[ SECRET POST #2076 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2076 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 5 pages, 108 secrets from Secret Submission Post #297.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 4 - repeat ].
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Comments

[ill_omened]

It's an interesting dynamic, given how male centric a lot of the internet (or at least the internet I post on) is.

I was amused by the fact that just a couple days ago someone referred to me with the female pronoun despite how stereotypically 'masculine' my writing style is.

[(Anonymous)]

I was actually a bit shocked about how vehemently angry I got when someone used the wrong pronoun for me. Which may have had something to do with the rather obvious gender of my icon at the time but whatever. I was surprised.

[ariakas]

....There's a "stereotypically masculine" writing style now?

o____________O

[queen_saru]

I think I just made that face too. XD Praytell... what is a stereotypically masculine writing style? Does it lack in smilies and sparkles?

[ariakas]

There was some hot air about this by a novelist a while back, about how male novelists are easily distinguishable from female novelists because of how "trite" the latter were (after a female colleague of his won the Nobel prize), naturally, so a magazine posted excerpts from male and female novelists without names attached to see if the general public could really tell.

The result: they couldn't. It's nonsense.

[diet_poison]

yeah, this...I never thought of ill_omened as particularly masculine. Not particularly feminine either, but I didn't have any reason to venture away from the "probably a girl, but I don't really know for sure" default of most people on here (and in fandom in general).

As a side note, I am careful about pronouns. I also frequent the Internet in a some more male-centric places as well and I'm kinda tired of getting "he".

[ariakas]

Yeah me neither. Certainly nothing that stood out from any of the female posters here.

I frequent quite a few "he is default, mention you're not a 'he' ever and that makes you an attention whore" type places - which is worse, not believing someone when they tell you their gender, or deriding them should they ever tell you their gender?

I just can't make that call.

[(Anonymous)]

Please tell us all about what your "stereotypically masculine" writing style is.

[(Anonymous)]

Hating Americans

[ariakas]

Lol I thought that was for latte-sipping librul vaginas and those damn dirty queers.

[kaileighblue]

Not them, but if we're just talking about posting on the net: Masculine spaces usually have a lot of ribbing and often being jerks to one another. Feminine spaces are nicer and more civil. At least on the surface.

I know when I go to places that are majority male I put on my potty mouth and adult pants and jump right in. Where if I'm in a lady space I tone it down. Maybe OP is talking about something else, I don't know.

[(Anonymous)]

I've gotten "you're a BOY?!?" a couple times despite going by WESLEY. :V I'm sure the OP isn't the only one who does this.