IWNBAW, I know, but that doesn’t stop me and millions of other young men from desperately wanting to be one. I’ve been “digitally trans” for more than a decade starting when I was a teenager, mastering photoshop and training a female voice to convince people online that I’m a girl. Here’s how my IRL (boy) and OL (girl) lives differ:
BOY
People are pretty indifferent to me
Being overly friendly gets met with suspicion, not friendly enough gets me iced
Maybe 1 or 2 unprompted texts per day
Girls who show interest seem to have zero regard for me as a person and care more about what I can do for them or how so can make them feel
feel worthless and like nobody would care if I die despite being Anon Babble, well-read, and making almost $200k/year
GIRL
Come back from work to 40 messages each day
Every community I’m show up to, people are immediately friendly to me whether I’m shy or sarcastic or even if I’m trolling
Every time I have even the slightest problem, there are multiple people who are experts in that problem who immediately volunteer to solve it for me
Feel immensely loved all the time and valuable despite acting like a retarded coomer diva in 2/3 of my interactions