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> every woman ... has vitriolic harassment faced (and/or sexual harassment).

I experienced being treated differently when I was playing a very attractive Blood Elf Warrior in World of Warcraft ten years ago: a fellow adventurer would continually give me gifts (valuable in-game items).

The third time this happened I realized he wasn't being generous—he was courting me! I had to come clean.

I messaged him, "Dude, I gotta tell ya: I'm not a girl in real life."

"You're not?"

"No, I'm a balding man in his mid-forties."

Long pause, and then he replied, "I gotta take a cold shower."

I never heard from him again, but he seemed like a nice guy who was trying to get a girlfriend by doing nice things for her, and I hope he found what he was looking for.




Aren’t all blood elf warriors equally attractive? Assuming any given female blood elf warrior is actually a female IRL needs a major reality distortion field.


You'd be surprised how many folks fall into this distortion field though (and I fully agree with how silly this is). It's enough such that my partner and many of her female friends only play female avatars in private games.




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