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>.> Lots of people lie about their gender on this game. This is news how? Also, many people role play on this game. I'm in a linkshell with a guy elf who is really a chickie irl...she just likes roleplaying...and goes around calling herself a dood...This game was not meant to meet people and hook up with them. If you want that I can suggest a few good sites... Lavalife, adultfriendfinder, yahoo, match.com ect....
Okay, I'll say it again since the first eighteen times may have somehow gotten missed.
The problem arises not when people hide their real gender (or their sexuality, their age, their appearance, their name, or whatever). I've known plenty of "manthras" and men who play female Humes because they prefer the view to what they'd see if they played a guy. I've known plenty more people whose RL *** I don't know, including a pair whom I knew for eight months before I learned whether they were a gay male couple, lesbian couple, or hetero couple. None of that matters a bit, none of it is the slightest bit of a problem. I can pretty much get along with anyone as long as they don't lie about who they are.
It's when they create a
completely different identity to the point of posting pictures of someone else that there's a problem. What legitimate reason could there be for stealing someone's photos (because if you post someone else's picture as you, chances are you stole that pic) and creating a fictitious "RL" self that you then tell people all about? It isn't for privacy; if you want privacy, you just don't tell people who you are or post pictures of yourself online. It isn't for roleplay; roleplaying relates to the game, not to a fake real-life persona. Maybe some of you can think of a good reason to create a completely fake identity, but I can only think that someone who does so has nefarious reasons for doing so.
And again, as I've said many times before, this is not about looking for a date. The OP is female and feels she was duped by another "female"; I don't know the whole situation, but it's entirely possible that the OP told her friend some things that they wouldn't say to a male--yet unknowingly, she
was saying them to a male, or at least that's what the evidence points to. Ask yourself how you'd feel if you looked back at every conversation you had with an online friend and found that that friend was someone totally different than who you believed them to be. Even if you keep yourself fairly private online, it's likely that at some point in time you've said something that you wouldn't want someone else to hear--or at least not certain someones.
Be honest: you
would feel violated or at the very least embarrassed if you replaced the online female friend on the other side of the screen with a guy...or a 50-year-old guy who'd told you he was 15 "just like you"...or a straight woman who'd led you to believe she was a gay man. You would replay every conversation you'd had with this person and flinch at every mention of bad menstrual cramps or relationship troubles with your girlfriend or the embarrassment of impromptu boners or whatever--and chances are, most of you have made passing reference to similarly embarrassing things to people you "knew." And even if you didn't, you'll still mentally scan everything that person said to you and wonder about it: "When 'she' said 'she' was having a bad day and needed a hug, was 'she' hitting on me?" "Why did he ask me for so much information about my girlfriend?"
It's fine to stay private. It's fine to roleplay. It's not fine to adopt a completely new and fake identity unless you're in the witness protection program.