As a guy, both reading this article and the horrendous comments in this thread I kind of want to put a female avatar picture on my social media accounts.
Just to see what it's like to be in someone else's shoes...
Just to see what it's like to be in someone else's shoes...
The next morning, the thread had over a hundred replies and I even got one private message offering an interview. I hadn’t even linked to my work.
That said I think this has a lot more to do with attractiveness and race than gender. Anytime you see someone post a photo of an attractive man holding a cute animal on /r/aww the comments from women are equally extremely cringey and weird.