Try "why do guys pretend to be women on the internet?" or "boys pretend to be girls in games".
There are a couple of men pretending to be women on Gamefaqs. It doesn't bother me in the slightest as i treat everyone the same way irrespective of quality of writing, game experience or the gender they want to be. But you're fooling yourself if you think it doesn't go on, especially on game sites.
A "high percentage" can mean anything between 10% and 90%, it's a deliberately vague statement based on my own experience. "Most" would be wrong, "some" would be an alternative, but "a percentage higher than 9" was used to convey the point though at the time i chose different words. I'm as enthusiastic about reaching a more precise number as you are looking for evidence of the practice on your own. If you want to have an argument about semantics steering the conversation away from the actual topic then you're going about it in completely the right way.
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That doesn't do the work of finding actual reliable sources for it. You're the one making the silly and arbitrary claim, you should be the one who has to back it up with actual research.
With the amount of time it took you to type your response you could easily have investigated further and educated yourself rather than waiting on someone else to spoon-feed you. See above. I know it goes on, you reckon it doesn't: Therefore I'm not the one who should be looking it up. If I believed the world was flat and you came along and claimed it to be a sphere then it would be up to me to delve deeper if i was willing to accept your claim. Or i could just say "That's nonsense" and continue to believe what makes me happy. But then if i genuinely thought it was crap then i wouldn't entertain the idea by responding to it and seeking further information... evidentally that's just me because here we are.
I'm disabled, you utter prat. I was wearing both my wrist braces when I posted that comment. Makes it more difficult to type than you might think, and besides which, why should I have to take on the burden of proof and of using some of my limited energy to prove your point? You said it, you're the one who should be doing any research needed to prove it. Or maybe just don't post daft comments without having evidence to back them up beforehand.
*leaves for physiotherapy, far more useful than arguing with randoms online* ---