No Girls or Women... Only Catfish...

miia389

Your not shy...your a fish...

"There are no girl's on the internet"

"Girl's don't play games"

"Girls don't like sex"

"All online girls are catfish" (Boys behind girl accounts/sexual predators)

Some of these are jokes used online, and some are taken from those who genuinely do not know.

The internet has group everyone together, regardless of race, creed, age, gender, made up gender or whatever else that separates us.

There are no girls on the internet...

No Girls or Woman... Only Catfish...

Yet despite the obvious fact that a huge part of these people are...well female. It is generally denied, and I've seen it everywhere, most online forums joke about girls being in the comments or claim the person lies. Even on 9gag its a running joke that there are no girls online. Does this offend me? Of course not. Why not? Because it's true, to an extent. Woman mostly use social media, I personally don't but a lot do. Whether it's to catch up with friends or bored at work. Usually woman use the internet for those kinds of activities.

Girls don't play games...

No Girls or Women... Only Catfish...

Does that mean there are no woman on forums or image sharing sites,what about PornHub. We exist. When I was 5 years old, I was introduced to gaming from my father. Before that I watched him play games. As I grew up we got all the consoles, the new parts for the PC that came out, the new consoles, from Nintendo, to Microsoft to Sony, we had and have them all. This lifestyle of course led me to being exposed to the internet very often.

Girls don't like sex...

No Girls or Women... Only Catfish...

Which lead to me discovering many things, from cute cat videos to hardcore lesbian strapon pornography. Which lead to certain activities...which lead to changing underclothes....which lead to this. The point is girls like this exist, is it rare? Most likely, yes very rare, but we do exist. Now what comes with gaming all the time from a young age...

DING DING DING!!! It's the growth of a new introvert. I was shy, I was awkward, I didn't know how to talk properly to people in real life...but that's the thing. IN REAL LIFE I struggled, online I was a communication God, all the lingo, all the jokes, all the references...all the memes, all the raids, everything. I experienced it like many others. Mostly boys be it, but I was still there.

All online girls are catfish...

No Girls or Women... Only Catfish...

So what's this all leading to. Well it leads to the title of this myTake...

No Girls or Woman...only Catfish. [Reference to Bioshock for any other gamers out there]

Ah...Catfish, the vermin that roam the internet, looking for anything to sink their pervy little teeth into...

For those of you who don't know, google defines it as:

"to lure (someone) into a relationship by adopting a fictional online persona"

Now that's a very generalized description, it's also seen as someone who fakes their gender online for whatever reason...And this right here is the crux of my problem, which honestly has no solution.

Being an introvert and well shy girl. I do not share images or information of myself online, sure I may be in some family photo's here or there, but personally I do not want to. Regardless if you random person number 45 think it's no big deal, your view on showing off your image online doesn't apply to us all. Nor should it. Nobody is required to and this where the problem arises thank's to catfish. Nobody believes me...thanks to two factors, first the idea that girls don't go to certain kinds of sites and second, probably the biggest one, that I'm probably some 40 year old man jerking off in their mothers basement.

Now does this bother me...Yes, but not for the insult, but for the fact that I'm unable to be myself online as some guy might, without being seen as a potential catfish. What is worse is that I get messaged by most likely actual catfishes trying to get me to f#%k with them.

My personality is very sexual, very open, very flirty, very playful. I struggle with these things in my real life so online it comes out like crazy. And on a site like this, I'm able to ask anything I please.

But it always circles back to stereotypes which circle back to Catfish, since they usually are people looking for sexual attention.

So this is my situation, I'm a 21 year old girl, turning 22 tomorrow...well today as I post this. I'm an introvert towards the public, but an extrovert online, I'm loud and alive and playful and flirty.

But because of those who assume girls are allergic to the internet or those actual catfish, I'm unable to by myself. This is a problem that maybe faces many girls, maybe only faces a few. But its been on my mind for a long time. And well now maybe its on yours.

So I leave you with this advise that's impossible to actually use...

"There are girls on the internet...

Girls do play games...

Girls do like sex...

All online girls are not catfish...only some.

[SIDE NOTE]

Been ages since I posted one of these, maybe this will pick up, maybe it won't, not a lot to discuss, but I'm curious if any other girls feel the same way as me or guys who can understand...

No Girls or Women... Only Catfish...
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