Mephisto2

... that a preponderance of male posters here seem to go for female (often porn related) Avatars?



Is it just me, or does that seem a bit... well, wierd?

If you're gonna create an Avatar for yourself, why would you put a naked women there? Unless, of course, you are a naked woman!

Discuss.

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SiN

dunno..prooly same reason why many men have naked/sexy chicks as their wp..because they like to look at them..

:shrug:

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Mephisto2

Yeah...

But as their Avatar?!!

More than once I've mistaken a male poster for a girl, because they had a female picture.

It just doesn't make sense to me.

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SiN

heh....

i dunno, i guess i just go by people's nicks, with the exception of new people i *usually* know who's what and such..

perhaps too i've the advantage of the ladies lounge...
i see a nick elsewhere and can think 'oh i've seen them in the LL, so it's female'...

besides...the number of females around here with avatars is prooly around 20 or so, not too many, i could prooly almost name them all off the top of my head if i tried hard enough..

interesting tho, is that the females never have hot guys in their av's.

makes sense tho.
prooly because they're not into hot guys (like me - i've got an excellent bf, and i could not care less about other men)...
or...i dunno. several reasons a chick would not put a guy in their av. chicks want images they can 'identify' with or something.

bleh. i'm babbling, aren't i?

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Mephisto2

I could say it's because they are not as shallow as some of the adolescent male posters....



But that would be mean and would probably annoy some, so I won't.

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Daval

personally, and this is by no means the views of anyone else who is a moderator or admin.

I wish females would use female avatars, and males use male avatars.

I always get confused who is who as well :P

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ARTelevision

I think they are intended as trophies to one's skills as a hunter of women or something.

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*Ding*. I think this answer is correct.

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I have avatars turned off, and don't use one myself. Saves bandwidth and loads pages faster! I know you all by your nicks only.

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This is by far my favorite answer so far.

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denim

All I can say is that when I play a fighting game in an arcade, I tend to pick a female character. That way, I can look at her in every round, instead of only when I'm up against her.

And my avatar has no sex, being a pattern.

ninety09

sounds pretty accurate

remiel

don't have an av yet, but if I did it wouldn't be a naked woman, because I don't think a naked woman is a good representation of who I am.

Now Kurt Angle in a cowboy hat... that's a different story

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Mephisto2

Now THAT was funny...



I don't know what I would choose. Probably some lame little devil thing.

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The_Dude

maybe cuz the girl on the avatar is so fine that the guys wanna show it off??

that just a random guess.

i personally dont use a girl as my avatar (who needs girls when you have texas?) and my wp is not a girl either (my mom would get pissed if i had girl and i'm not the kind of guy that puts girls up on wp)(who needs girls when you have dale jr's car?)

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MichaelFarker

Maybe an online avatar is meant as an expression of some part of who you are. If so, a picture of a naked woman might be used because it represents what that person finds attractive. Or it might be a general statement that pictures of naked women are an important part of their life somehow.
Then again, maybe they just want to give other people something nice to look at.

drawerfixer

To tell the truth, when I see avatars such as this, I have other thoughts on my mind.

Though I get confused about the posters sex sometimes, I dig through their previous posts and profile until I can get a better opinion. Unemployment is an easy life... except for the whole being broke thing.

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<--- naked men in avatar

-Mikey

uncle phil

<----- she started it all...

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<---- So, what the hell does this say about me?

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It's a projection of the Inner Woman struggling to break free of the bounds of testosterone …

… or something like that.

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hmm. who the hell can say why anyone does much of anything?

i gree with art to an extent. i believe one or two actually use their girls as a trophy, which is.... hmm. anyhow

some, i'm sure, simply like to see their favorite chicks.

some may just say 'why not?'

i, myself, have used six avatars so for. one was a yahoo emoticon with a Zorro-like mask (which i've been Zorro for ten years on my other areas) and a mustache (which i have) and so on. I had the humerous "The voice in my head told me to kill you, but I'm pretty sure they were just kidding." I had an erotica/art pics of a lady pulling a thong off - it was beautiful and i got shitloads of people telling me to put it back heh. i forget what the next was, then it was a beautiful girl in lingerie, smiling and smelling of a flower. now Timmy since he's funny as hell and king gimp


i show women to simply give a taste of my personality and what i like. i like pretty or artsy ladies. most of the bouncing boobs or what make me cringe.

hm

ok this is one long pointless post

get used to names before pictures. i wish i knew that when i began.

SiN

makes me cringe too..

because i *have* boobs...and tbh, seeing those bouncing boobs hurts.

ow.

/me huggles her bra

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h2g2Fan

I think i see a certain type of stain in your avatar.

denim

Maybe that's why Apple removed it from the system!

drawerfixer

because I'm a pervert.

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RoadRage

Maybe it helps them stop at the right post when they are looking over what they wrote previously.

But then I think rain is wet, so what do I know.

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yournamehere

When I first got my avatar on v. 3.0, I used a nekkid female - one of my favorite porn princesses in a favorite position. I stopped using it soon afterward for two reasons - I realized there was much more to the TFP than the Titty Board, and also because I know a lot of people like to visit the TFP from work yet want to still keep the avatars enabled. Just a personal choice - not a suggestion to others.

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I have a naked plastic woman in my avatar... Does that count?

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kalisto_911

Hahaha I was JUST thinking of this avatar as I was reading this thread!

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