Why Do You Girls Always Have A Cartoon Or Painting As Your Avatar?

[Guest Elizabeth K]

Well - it started as a privacy thing - I didn't trust internet sites. But I found an avatar that seemed to be what I am, and used it. I now have photos of me up in profie and a gallery that shows me as I look, a sort of progress thing as I transition. It's available to memebers if they want to look.

I KEPT my avatar because it is now a sort of trade mark. If I went to a real photo I would feel I have lost something, as I am so accustomed to scrolling down to my avatar when checking replies.

That's just me.

Lizzy

Here is what I would probably use instead of my avatar

[Guest Leigh]

well..i've kind of noticed that too...but i mean, i wasn't sure myself about putting up a pic of me, cuz i still look so fem.

but, whatever, to each his or her own i guess..

[Guest skyy]

for me, there are many reasons.

1. i'm computer illiterate. i couldnt even begin to figure out how to take a pic, put it on the computer, or put it on my profile.

2. privacy. i trust the people on this site, but since anyone can look, i feel its better to play it safe for now until i actually look something like a girl.

3. Namine is my hero she represents me better than any picture could. so even if the above were changed, i still wouldnt change it for this reason alone. Namine is who i am.

[Guest Zenda]

for me, there are many reasons.

1. i'm computer illiterate. i couldnt even begin to figure out how to take a pic, put it on the computer, or put it on my profile.

Kia Ora Skyy,

I'm in the same boat, it took me hours to try and understand how it all works and even now I'm struggling with it...I put it down to luck[plus a little help from Zabrak-the 'computer nerd']

Metta Jendar

[Guest Sakura_Stingray]

As for my avatar, it is an android known as Kos-Mos three seconds after activation for the first time from the game Xenosaga.....i choosen this beccause Kos-Mos was built containing the soul of mary magdalen(the crazy religiouse thing they say was jesus's mother i think) and i have always wished to have my brain and soul imprinted/transfered to a female android body not only cause of the complex of living forever but also for being female......which reminds me does anyone have a cool picture of the major from ghost in the shel?

since i was little around the age of 5 i have thought of many ways of living forever....never liked the thought of death and it is because of this fear i keep myself away from people ^.^;; people do not see it right for a child of age 5 to have a phobea of death......but they see it normal to have a phobia of the boogyman even though its a fantasy and death is a reality...hmmm i guess that would mean people want their kids to keep away from fantasy and accept reality at a younger age.....while for example i keep away from reality and accept fantasy at a younger age.........bah ohwell too complex ffor talking about avatars

[Guest S. Chrissie]

I love the game Xenogears though I never tried Xenosaga. I heard they were somehow related to each other??

For me, the reason would be like the other 100 or more girls on this site, Shinobu (from LoveHina) represents me almost perfectly

Sherlyn

[Guest thisismylife]

~Sakura_Stingray - you have rukia as your profile pic - thats awesome!

...actually, thats all i hve to say

[Paula ult]

Hi MrAwesom, i originally had a picture of me, then tried to update it to a full size shot but it was always too small so i put a picture of the kitties up, still having trouble with the size so i re posted my original picture. If someone i know comes to this site and sees me so what it only means they are probably trans too.

Paula.

[Guest Lizzie McTrucker]

I KEPT my avatar because it is now a sort of trade mark.

Well I think your current avatar is super cute.

[Guest Sofiadragon]

For me it is two things, 1: I don't have a digital camera yet so I can't take a pic of myself & then import it, 2: I love cats.

[Guest Sakura_Stingray]

^.^ xenosaga is supposed to be before xenogears, either before or after the xenogears saga......either way kosmos is cool ^.^ but i have T-elos as my vehicles LP cause T-elos represents marys body while Kos-mos represents her body/soul also rukia is my fav character from bleach.....i try to make funny cute drawings like she does almost all the time and i always get bashed on them lol

[Guest JoanDS]

Funny.

I just posted my drawn avatar and my RL personal photo, before I read this thread

I feel that my avatar is an idealized image of an aspect of my personality. One that I can change with my moods. I also tried to find one that actually looked like an idealized version of me physically as well.

Then I posted a nice face-shot of my actual self in my personal photo section so people could see my face.

I sort of forced myself to do that.

My friends tell me I have nothing to complain about, but I feel my face is far too masculine and I have not yet fully come to terms with my appearance as a woman, and cannot wait to get FFS, but I am trying to work through it, so I put it out there. My friends are shamelessly biased and so I have been looking to get a broader exposure.

-Joan

[Guest doodle]

I can't even figure out how to put any avatar. I'm hopeless with computers. Security is another issue. I'm not out at me job as of yet.

doodle

[Guest OneOutOfnOne]

I'm the Very Hungry Caterpillar. I think this tells the average virtual passerby a great deal about me. It also ties in with this whole theme of creation I have going with my user name and lifestyle. I need not leave my face out in the open for all to see whether they choose to or not - if one wants to know what I look like, one may make the minimal effort to click on a name, and thus do so. Besides, then I get to see who's looking at me, and take some vain satisfaction in seeing that, on a given day, someone has bothered to.

[Guest Elizabeth K]

Well I think your current avatar is super cute.

Lizzie - your avatar photo is a super trademark - always stop when scrolling and I see it! Please don't change - well you know what I mean - the avatar.

Thanks - I say who she is in my profile.

LizzyToo

[Guest mia 1]

Mia Farrow is an independent woman and it took me four months to meld Mia and me and, we are togerther..at last...from the soap opera Peyton Place to Radio Days we united. Give her the slight edge in good looks.................................... DARN

[Guest Elizabeth K]

Mia Farrow is an independent woman and it took me four months to meld Mia and me and, we are togerther..at last...from the soap opera Peyton Place to Radio Days we united. Give her the slight edge in good looks.................................... DARN

Mia - don't know - you dress better!

Lizzy

[Guest sara w.]

The reason I don't have my pic is beacause, I havn't started transitioning left, and whenever I see my avatar it makes me feel & think "thats going to be me someday" and I get a nice, hope giving feeling inside.

[Guest RainBird]

Well, my avatar is a photo of me at work, though small, it is still me

[Guest MrAwesome]

OMG, Mr. Awesome......

No secret here, Hon.....

My angel has been with me for years.......

Wanna see me?

Just click on my profile and I'll be smiling at ya!

BTW....you're kinda cute....

I like that in a guy....

LOL....

Donna Jean

Thank you, there's this one old lady were my mom works that gets all worked up and talks about how she used to be a stripper and grabs people's butt's, and today for Easter I went up there and took my shirt off and swung it over my head shaking my butt XD my binder made it so no one even knew I was trans, my mom told her co-workers when they were like "Were's your daughter I thought you had a girl?" But she didn't say it in front of anyone else. hehe

[Guest MrAwesome]

This was the first site I felt safe enough to ever post any pictures of myself on. Now I'm caring less and less about who see me, but for me it was a security issue in the beginning.

OMG you're MTF? O.o How far are you in transitioning? MTFs always seem to look more attractive that Genetic Girls

[Guest MrAwesome]

before my transition, I felt anime characters were a better face to my name. I didn't want people to associate me with my real life face. I imagine some people who are pre E or pre T feel the same. Just a hunch though.

Actually I haven't even started T yet, and I never hid what I look like. I get told I look like a 12 year old boy so what? XD fits my personality.

[Guest MrAwesome]

Im just vary self conious about how i look. and my avatair reflects how i feel.

Always Karma

... I can't even make out what it is... o.0

[Guest MrAwesome]

eh, thought my avatar would be light-hearted and uplifting to look at :3 Kinda explains who I am too. lol

Yes it is, it makes me feel happy every time I look at it probably because it reminds me of something I'd put as an avi xD

[Guest MrAwesome]

i have mine up of myself cus i want people to realise im actually hotter then brad pitt

but I'm hotter than you and brad put combined