I have observed some strange reactions to various people's choice of avatar over my excessive number of years on social internet sites.
I tend to choose my avatar based on something I can relate to personally. But I have observed in other cultures, such as Pakistan and India, that people there tend to choose avatars based on something they like. Pakistani and Indian men will often use images of beautiful culturally local women, usually Bollywood starlets and the women, if they even use the internet will use photos of children, flowers, or written phrases. And this is usually when they choose to not use their own face as their avatar.
So often in western cultures people will assume if they see an avatar of a pretty woman that it is a woman using the avatar because westernized men rarely put female images on their avatar, unless they identify with being feminine in some way, and we know how macho even the puniest of western men are.
So I am curious, what made you choose YOUR avatar? Does it tell us about you, or does it conceal something about you. Is it something think you are or something you wish you were? is it just a random image to fill the space and has no meaning to you at all? Did you choose it in hopes that it would make others like you? Did you hope to shock, entertain, or offend?