CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

So, why so many boys use girl anime characters for avatars here? Me confused.

(note: Speed Racer is a boy. )

Uh...I dunno.

Because I want to?

Please note, that wasn't supposed to be a demeaning tone. I really don't have any particular reason for it.

I'm guessing that they just want to put up the character they like best. That's the case for me, at least; I'm a girl, but I love Asakura Hao, so he ended up as my avatar. ^__^

xD; I have a history of...lol, but seriously, like Aka-chan said, it's because I love Kantarou, so I chose him as my avatar. =3 And I like looking at anime boys more than I like looking at anime girls. xD;

Rei's been there for a long time, and she shall stay for a while yet.

That and I'd rather stare at her than some guy.

Because I generally like female characters rather than male most times

Boys like staring at pretty girls is suppose, just like I like staring at Kenshin.

Because girls are cool.

. . . No, actually, like everybody said, you pretty much choose your favorite character to use as your avatar. Often that character may not be of the same sex as you (and perhaps the reason you like them has something to do with that, actually ). I had Takuto in my avatar for a while. Mitsuki was there too, but so was Takuto.

And no, Tintin is not a girl!

Peronaly It buggs me a little, because I will liook at the avatar and say "oh look, its some girl." and then i realize that the person is a guy and I say "wha!?" I just like things to look like they are. Of course, I can't speak because I have an avatar of an old relativly ugly guy, and I am quite young and (I hope) not too ugly.

i had the ddr bunny first, then sakaki (girl), then full moon(girl) , and back to this

i had the ddr bunny first, then sakaki (girl), then full moon(girl) , and back to this

Mine is my own creation; enough said. ^_____^ *huggle-glomps Melody*

Looks a bit like homestar runner as a girl Melody! Nice work!

To be honest I never really understood this phenomena until now. I guess it makes sense...but honestly, I guess I usually like to keep my female persona. I don't mind RP'ing as guys (cause that's fun too) but I'm a girl...so I usually pick female avs. At least no one's ever confused me for a boy.

As for staring at my favorite bishies, that's what my sig is for!

xD; I have a history of...lol, but seriously, like Aka-chan said, it's because I love Kantarou, so I chose him as my avatar. =3 And I like looking at anime boys more than I like looking at anime girls.

And to counter act that I generally like looking at anime girls more than I like looking at anime boys. = P

I use to use female avatars but for some reason....I have problems uploading avys even smaller than 90x90 or 14kb. Besides, we all know girls are cooler and no, I am not trying earn brownie points. In anime, they generally are, except Kenshin.

Plus I find anime girls attractive in a way. Something about them that I love. Thats why alot of my sig pics have anime girls in them cause something about the is beautiful. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic ::sighs::

My avatar is Naru from the Love Hina manga.

Because Lacus is so cute. And as stated above I like looking at a cute girl more then a guy.

Actually i WAS t

I personaly prefer when guys use guy avatars simply because somtimes I assume. I recently found out a member here was a girl..after about 2 months thinking they were a dude. *embarrassed* As far as mine goes...its Vincent...and Vincent kicks butt. He has long hair, is moody, and can turn into a horrifying beast when he gets mad...in other words, its me.

Steve Racer wrote:So, why so many boys use girl anime characters for avatars here? Me confused.

Personal preference.... ;D

I find it a little confusing myself but I've also experienced kind of a reverse effect. Like assuming Sam*ron's avatar is a girl becuse she's a girl. Some anime guys are kind of easy to confuse.

Anyway, I have to admit, if I didn't have an RPG alter-ego that I spent a couple of decades developing, I'd probably have choosen a female anime character for my avatar as well. At least until I saw how confusing it was.

Wasn't there a Megatokyo strip about this? Largo was pestering Piro as to why he used a girl in Endgames and Piro basically told him that Largo was the weird one because he obsessed over his bulked out manly man rather than a cute girl. I'll go see if I can find the strip somewhere.

Personally, I don't care either way. I tend to use females as my avatars ... well, right now I'm using the 1up Mushroom on AIM and I'm pretty sure that mushrooms don't have genders.

*EDIT* I can't seem to find it. I'm pretty sure it was a Nazi Nagi strip. (You know, the ones inspired from Ruri and Akito's lectures from Nadesico.)

Same with Bakura

::ponders a bit::

Maybe this is why some members mistook me for a girl

When people see an avatar, they expect it to represent its owner. However, representation can take many forms, many of them having little to do with the physical appearance of the user. In general, an avatar says more about what a person likes, wants to be seen as, or wants to become, which can be very different from their actual current state.

Lol, i like using both, i just usually usa an avatar of one of my favourite chars, (sometimes from the most recent anime i'm watching, but not always), sometines a char is so cool i HAVE to put em in my avatar, and as mentioned by lotsa people, i like staring at anime girls alot more than anime guys

i usually look for the gender symbols beside peoples names anyway, so i don't mistake people, prob because i'm used to gettind mistaken for a girl ocassionaly by people... (its my long hair...)

When people see an avatar, they expect it to represent its owner. However, representation can take many forms, many of them having little to do with the physical appearance of the user. In general, an avatar says more about what a person likes, wants to be seen as, or wants to become, which can be very different from their actual current state.

I agree with that, I know when I've been online for hours at a time rather it be playing games or going on messageboards...I tend to start thinking the members of a messageboard look like their avatars, especially when you've been on for hours posting and lose sense of reality.....now that's scary!

I use favorite characters/people in my avs and most of the time those are male, so there you go. although I did have a Princess Leia avatar for a while.

...and I JUST noticed that ShiroiHikari is female. Whoa...