Story A new low: pretending to be a girl on Reddit and having men talk to me

[ChildrensITV]

I kept getting banned or downvoted on Reddit, using a male account, so I decided to make a female one. Who is anyone to say I don't have a female side to me? So I named myself something that is slightly female-coded and within a few days, I hada few men who DM'd me to talk. I asked them why they had DM'd me and they said it was just to be friends and cuz I was a cool person. Apparently, my 8 or so posts made me a cool person. One of them has asked for social media, which I keep declining.

I don't feel like I am explicitly trans. It is just a refreshing experience to have someone reach out to me and make all the effort. I am not even pretending to be interesting. When I do online dating as a male, I feel like I am trying to impress, begging for a date, trying to be funny, keeping the conversation alive. With this, I can be low-effort and disinterested. These men aren't toxic or aggressive. I have heard that a lot of men are toxic in DMs but so far, these men just seem like they're trying to meet women in different ways. Have your experiences been different?

I used to have a friend who pretended to be a woman to get donations from men. I think that is more wrong than what I am doing which is just talking.

Is there a risk that I will give myself gender dysphoria by going down this rabbithole, seeing what life I could have had?

 

[mortuarymary]

The username is rather off putting for me.

 

[Adûnâi]

The username is rather off putting for me.

Wait, are you trying to harass the OP?

 

[mortuarymary]

Wait, are you trying to harass the OP?

No.
in the UK we've had a few tv presenters of children's tv Who took advantage of their positions. Jimmy Saville being one. the name just put me off that's all. The OP in general didn't at all.

 

[ChildrensITV]

No.
in the UK we've had a few tv presenters of children's tv Who took advantage of their positions. Jimmy Saville being one. the name just put me off that's all. The OP in general didn't at all.

Children's ITV was the name of my favourite program back when I didn't wish that I were dead. It is not meant to be any reference to actual children. It's more of a reference to me when I was one.