# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/21 "2010-09-13T01:15:58Z")
I can’t imagine a guy picking “Elfkin” as a screen name, but I’ve been called “he” on a number of occasions, so it must not be as girlie as it seems to me… ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/22 "2010-09-13T01:31:31Z")
> [@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 always thought your name was a shortening of “Alessandro,” which is my brother’s name, so no gender confusion here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/23 "2010-09-13T01:36:02Z")
I know that **Kimmy Gibler** is a male. As for me, Serenata is a feminine word in Spanish… and I am female. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/24 "2010-09-13T01:43:10Z")
I suppose anyone could be upside down regardless of their gender, but in my case, gravity might make what would normally be my top half uncomfortable instead of what would normally be my bottom half. > [@rhubarbarin](#): > > And everyone seems to assume I’m a man at first. Not everyone. 🙂 > [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I don’t know enough about Latin to say “cat” in it Feles. Which according to Wiktionary is feminine. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/25 "2010-09-13T01:46:27Z")
I’m a girl, and I think “Mama” would suggest same. There’s a Doper named Ilsa Lund who is, IIRC, of the male persuasion. ---
**Author:** ![Spacegirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Spacegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spacegirl)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/26 "2010-09-13T01:49:58Z")
Spacegirl is indeed, a girl! ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/27 "2010-09-13T01:52:48Z")
Many people get confused so I should clarify once again that I am not an alcoholic beverage produced from fermented barley. Also, I’m a man. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/28 "2010-09-13T01:59:51Z")
My ID is gender neutral but let me just check… yep, I’m a girly type. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/29 "2010-09-13T02:06:26Z")
My SD ID is female, but I’m a guy. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/30 "2010-09-13T02:11:18Z")
My namesake is a male character of mine. We don’t share a gender. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/31 "2010-09-13T02:24:17Z")
Every few hundred threads or so, someone will reply to one of my posts with “Wait. Kunilou, you’re a guy?” Yes, I am. Look at my join date and post count. I have always been a guy. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/32 "2010-09-13T02:44:57Z")
I’m a guy. Muffin is what my parents, family, and close friends called me since I was an infant. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/33 "2010-09-13T02:46:55Z")
My name and I are both male. I do not, however, get to sit in the upper house of the UK Parliament. (Actually not all real Lords do either, as a result of the 1999 reforms.) ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/34 "2010-09-13T03:34:36Z")
A lot of people assume I am male from my username. I suppose it is a bit manly. Not a lot of girl warriors out there. I took it from a T. Rex album, and Mr. Marc Bolan is also a dude, so I can see how this might contribute to people wrongly placing my gender. Not that I mind. I enjoy androgyny. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/35 "2010-09-13T03:39:12Z")
I guess it depends on what comes to mind when you imagine a kinky nippon tourist. I’m guessing male. But I’m not kinky (mores the pity), nipponese nor a tourist, so it makes perfect sense that I’m female. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/36 "2010-09-13T03:41:50Z")
I don’t think anyone has ever specifically thought I was woman. But I do recall one poster who said only women would use the word little in their username. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/37 "2010-09-13T06:33:36Z")
We’re both girls. (Sadly, that’s probably the extent of the characteristics we share.) ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/38 "2010-09-13T07:17:49Z")
Most people somehow assume that I’m female from my screen name. I have no idea why. ---
**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 13, 2010, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/39 "2010-09-13T10:54:56Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > > [@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 always thought your name was a shortening of “Alessandro,” It is. I mean, I think it is - the novel (\*Tigana \*by Guy Gavriel Kay; an excellent book, incidentally) is Italian-themed fantasy, so it makes sense that it would be a variation on an Italian name. ---
**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 13, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/40 "2010-09-13T12:32:52Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > > [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > > > I always thought your name was a shortening of “Alessandro,” > > It is. I mean, I think it is - the novel (\*Tigana \*by Guy Gavriel Kay; an excellent book, incidentally) is Italian-themed fantasy, so it makes sense that it would be a variation on an Italian name. The reason people assume you’re female is because your name is Allison. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514.md?page=3)