# Does Your SD ID Go Against Your Gender? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 12, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514 "2010-09-12T15:58:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/1 "2010-09-12T15:58:26Z")
I was thinking some SD ID names are gender specific. I’ll make these up but they may exist SpaceGuy KnittingGal Are there any dopers who have an ID that goes against their gender For instance if SpaceGuy was actally female Or if KnittingGal was actually a male Just wondering? ---
**Author:** ![Doxy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@Doxy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doxy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/2 "2010-09-12T16:14:24Z")
Nope… A “doxy” by definition is female… and I’m most definitely female! 😃 I am sort of sad that I didn’t use “Miss Nomer” or “Miss Anne Thrope” instead though! LOL ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/3 "2010-09-12T16:36:49Z")
**Nurse Carmen** springs immediately to mind. IIRC, he’s neither a nurse nor a Carmen. The name comes from a TV show popular around here in the '80s or so, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Peeta\_Mellark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Peeta\_Mellark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peeta_Mellark)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/4 "2010-09-12T16:40:50Z")
**Peeta Mellark** is a male character in a trilogy of novels, so no. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/5 "2010-09-12T17:21:35Z")
I like to think that **AClockworkMelon** is gender neutral. My demeanor typically gives me away. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/6 "2010-09-12T18:24:55Z")
Ninjas are usually guys but there’s a few girl ninjas out there. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/7 "2010-09-12T19:41:13Z")
I think mine is gender-neutral, but it’s often misread as ‘rhubarbari **a** n’ (barbarians are masculine, right?). And everyone seems to assume I’m a man at first. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/8 "2010-09-12T20:13:44Z")
I’ve been told that my usename has a masculine ending to it. I don’t know enough about Latin to say “cat” in it, so I’ll take their word for it. In any case, I’m pretty sure the [bones in the middle ear](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~jcoleman/middle_ear.GIF&imgrefurl=http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/ear.html&usg=__9vJWmM_kRlmWwS6aHz3m18BPzRU=&h=839&w=846&sz=51&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=OFubX_OF8k-jzM:&tbnh=136&tbnw=142&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmalleus%2Bincus%2Bstapes%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1020%26bih%3D590%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=125&vpy=238&dur=31&hovh=224&hovw=225&tx=128&ty=108&ei=QjSNTPWcBcP48AansaGeCg&oei=QjSNTPWcBcP48AansaGeCg&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0) are neither male nor female. ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/9 "2010-09-12T20:47:13Z")
I’m a girl. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/10 "2010-09-12T20:51:00Z")
I’m a girl. My namesake isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/11 "2010-09-12T20:54:57Z")
My gender is culturally dependent, though I usually have a dong. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/12 "2010-09-12T21:10:29Z")
There are plenty of female scifi fans and plenty of female Sams, but most people default to male when reading my name. Or they read it ‘scifasm.’ ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/13 "2010-09-12T21:16:38Z")
Another “my namesake is male, I am not” here. Hence my “location”. ---
**Author:** ![ThreadPirateRoberts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@ThreadPirateRoberts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThreadPirateRoberts)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/14 "2010-09-12T21:24:27Z")
I’m a girl ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/15 "2010-09-12T22:04:35Z")
I’m a girl. The name comes from an old high school inside joke. ---
**Author:** ![DoperChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@DoperChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoperChic)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/16 "2010-09-12T22:07:02Z")
Nope 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/17 "2010-09-12T23:42:05Z")
I’m named after a male character from a book, and yet after 10 years on this board, some people still think I’m female because of my name. It’s weird. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/18 "2010-09-13T00:00:43Z")
Nope. I’m named after a male character from a book. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Mrs\_Johnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/19 "2010-09-13T00:58:43Z")
Nope. But I am a Miss, not Mrs. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Krebbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@Mr.Krebbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Krebbs)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/20 "2010-09-13T01:03:18Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I’m named after a male character from a book, and yet after 10 years on this board, some people still think I’m female because of my name. It’s weird. I have always assumed you were male, partly because I would pronounce your handle roughly the way I would say “a lesson.” However, in light of your post, I speculate some might conjure a resemblance of “Alison” in their mind’s ear. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514.md?page=2)