Gender-bait is a term used by William Gibson in his 2003 novel Pattern Recognition[1] for the practice of some males who represent themselves as females online to elicit a positive response from other males. William Ford Gibson (born March 17 1948 is an American - Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the Cyberpunk subgenre Pattern Recognition is a novel by Science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003 Male (♂ refers to the sex of an organism or part of an organism which produces small mobile Gametes called spermatozoa. Female (♀ is the Sex of an Organism, or a part of an organism which produces ova (egg cells This is most common in Internet forums and Massively multiplayer online role-playing games. An, or message board, is a Bulletin board system in the form of a discussion site A massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG) is a genre of Computer role-playing games (CRPGs in which a large number of players interact with
A study from the Daedalus Project provides statistics about gender-baiting in World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft (commonly acronymed as WoW) is a Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG [2] In this popular on-line computer game, 84% of the players are male, 23% of whom play female characters. Of the female players only 3% pose as male characters, contrary to the belief that the practice is more likely in females who would be avoiding harassment or advances.
Alternate usage
The term gender-baiting has been in use at least since 1992,[3] mostly in the sense similar to race baiting. Race baiting is an act of using racially derisive language actions or other forms of communication to anger intimidate or incite a person or groups of people or to make those
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References
- ^ "Nothing like genderbait for the nerds, as I'm sure you well know. Crossplay is Cosplay in which the person dresses up as a character of the opposite Gender. Gender bender is an informal term used to refer to a person who actively transgresses or "bends" expected Gender roles Boy George is called a " Pattern Recognition, paperback, page 78
- ^ The Demographics of Gender-Bending, September 3, 2003
- ^ gender-baiting - Google Groups
- Gender bending on MMORPGS, dealing with Everquest, 2001
- Gender Swapping on the Internet, August 1993
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