Gender-bait is a term used by William Gibson in his 2003 novel Pattern Recognition for the practice of some males who represent themselves as females online to elicit a positive response from other males. This is most common in Internet forums and Massively multiplayer online role-playing games.

The term gender-baiting has been in use at least since 1992, mostly in the sense similar to race baiting.

See also

• Crossplay
• Gender bender

References

• Gender bending on MMORPGS, dealing with Everquest, 2001
• Gender Swapping on the Internet, August 1993