" gender bender "

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1: A player in an MMORPG whose online character is the opposite of their real life gender. There are many different reasons cited as to why people gender bend.

  * e.g.,  ... Don't bother trying to chase girls in online games. You never know who's a gender bender. 

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2:  Men may play female characters because they're treated nicer, receive more freebies and are invited to teams more often.

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3:  In player-vs-player environments, female characters are often seen as weaker, and some men may seek to exploit a psychological advantage over chauvinistic players.

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4:  Female players may create a male character so that they are more respected and taken more seriously, especially if they try to take on a leadership role.

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5:  A male player figures that if he must look at his character's butt the whole time, it might as well be a female one.

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6:  A desire to try out a different role in an anonymous environment.

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7:  Gays who wish to gain more sexual interest from their preferred gender.

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8:  Some men are feminist enough to genuinely enjoy creating powerful women characters.

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9:  A perverse pleasure in getting an unsuspecting heterosexual person of the same gender to pursue a relationship, only to spring the surprise on them later.

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10:  For some males (usually assumed to be sexually immature or frustrated), it's a method of dominating and controlling the female body.

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1: A gender bender is a person who seeks to define gender expression outside of the binary terms of man and woman.

  * e.g.,  ... Alex is a gender bender. Ze likes to play around with gender expression through clothes, hair styles, and attitudes. Ze doesn't let anyone define what hir gender is. 

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2: This person may express their gender in a variety of ways such as cross-dressing and not adhereing to stereotypical, traditional, and/or cultural ideals and practices for their gender.

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3: The person often believes in the thought system of gender and sex being separate. A person can be one sex, but express a gender that is usually not associated with that sex.

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4: May also use gender neutral pronouns such as ze and hir.

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5: Explore the concepts of femininity and masculinity with freedom.

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1: A function at which the gender roles are reversed, or manipulated in various ways. Also, a person who explores the boundaries of gender roles, or outright denies their existance

  * e.g.,  ... "I went to this great gender bender last night, where I met this kick ass guy, at least I thought so because of his skirt." 

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1: Someone who you see and cannot immediately discern the gender of.

  * e.g.,  ... "Lots of gender benders in this store." 

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1: A small adapter you use to connect two male or two female pinned/socketed cables of the same type together. You pervs.

  * e.g.,  ... "hey, toss me that serial gender bender, will you?" 

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1: An androginous person.

  * e.g.,  ... Boy George is a gender bender 

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2: a transexual.

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3: a transvestite.

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1: On a MUSH, MOO, MUCK, or other text-based online role-playing game, a male player who plays a female character. This is often done to attract partners for cybersex.

  * e.g.,  ... "I'm pretty sure Rena is a gender bender, she doesn't sound like a woman." 

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1: the embarrassing situation that arises from someone's innocently attributing the wrong gender to another person

  * e.g.,  ... I nearly got in a gender bender, but when I spotted the adam's apple I decided to stick to gender-neutral pronouns 

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1: A person having enough qualities not belonging to thier sex at birth that it is hard to distinguish them as the sex they were born as. Also people who engage in activities not normally or traditionally associated with thier birth sex. Does not mean they are homosexual but they do exhibit such behavior.

  * e.g.,  ...  Steve calls himself a metrosexual but its just a nice way of saying gender bender. He does very feminin things like getting his nails done. 

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1: A person who sees gender as a sociocultural construction and not something innate. Because genders are roles we play, and not something inherant, gender is something that can be turned on or off, tuned in or out and will. Because of this, someone who bends gender might wear baggy pants and pee standing one day, and crack out heels and a corset the next. People can bend gender in many ways and contexts, and because of this, people who are of any gender or sexual orientation can be gender-benders.

  * e.g.,  ... Sometimes, I feel sexy in a slinky dress and lipstick. Sometimes I feel handsome in a button down and tie. Sometimes I wear ties with skirts, corsets and cufflinks. I am a gender-bender, and I can bend gender norms to fit my conception of who I am.