# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/41 "2010-09-13T12:44:23Z")
> [@Tabby\_Cat](#): > > Most people somehow assume that I’m female from my screen name. I have no idea why. That’s 'cause all cats are girls. 😛 And to answer the OP, **missred** has girly bits. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/42 "2010-09-13T13:32:24Z")
There have been times when I’m referred to as Zelda when it must be that I’m perceived as being female. That didn’t occur to me when I picked the name, but I can live with it. To clarify, if that’s still an issue, I’m male. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/43 "2010-09-13T14:09:31Z")
Washoe was a female chimpanzee. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/44 "2010-09-13T14:46:40Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > I like to think that **AClockworkMelon** is gender neutral. My demeanor typically gives me away. I thought you were a girl. Hey, what’s up with Jose Arcadio not being a dude? I know where it’s from, but still. ---
**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, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/45 "2010-09-13T14:57:56Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > > I like to think that **AClockworkMelon** is gender neutral. My demeanor typically gives me away. > > I thought you were a girl. Like I said. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/46 "2010-09-13T15:21:25Z")
People tend to assume I’m female based on my name, even though the name is attached to a typically masculine-typed angel. Also, see my signature. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/47 "2010-09-13T15:47:56Z")
I think most people assume I’m female (I am) because of the “faith” part, but I’d hope overall that it’s gender-neutral. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/48 "2010-09-13T16:10:43Z")
It was meant to be a gender neutral name, but then found out that ‘bird’ is take as female in some cultures, so it’s gender reversed. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Nene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@El\_Nene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Nene)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/49 "2010-09-13T18:38:10Z")
My will tell you my gender and maturity level. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/50 "2010-09-13T18:55:08Z")
Despite my name, I’m not a girl. Not really. I am turning silver though, just not as fast I want to. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/51 "2010-09-13T19:09:50Z")
People have, on occasion, done the whole “he or she” thing when referring to me here, so I acknowledge that my username does not adequately convey my gender. I’m a dude. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/52 "2010-09-13T20:42:58Z")
Mine’s pretty gender neutral, since no one knows what a TOJ is. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/53 "2010-09-13T20:51:29Z")
When I was **Fabulous Creature** , people often thought I was either female or gay. Or maybe both, I never checked. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/54 "2010-09-13T20:54:31Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Mine’s pretty gender neutral, since no one knows what a TOJ is. I always think of you as being Evil to J … and feel sorry for poor J, whoever that may be. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/55 "2010-09-13T22:07:36Z")
Fairly sure I’m gender neutral. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/56 "2010-09-14T02:40:03Z")
> [@Mona\_Lott](#): > > My SD ID is female, but I’m a guy. I think you are the only person in this thread that I’d been getting the gender wrong. Sorry! Also, while I think of my name as masculine, I have gotten the he or she or avoid the pronoun treatment a couple times, I think. It may have been a different message board. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/57 "2010-09-14T04:44:13Z")
A character from a movie, male, but played by a woman (billed as a male actor). So you decide. As for me, I am male down to my painted toenails. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/58 "2010-09-14T05:51:15Z")
My name comes from a game. The ‘Buckler of Swashing’ is a ‘monster’ you might have to fight in the card game ‘Munchkin’. It is visually represented as a (swashbuckling) male in the example illustration. But I think of the title as neutral, which is why I am comfortable using it despite not being male. Anyone can swash a buckle if they put their mind to it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/59 "2010-09-14T06:39:48Z")
My nick is gender neutral I guess, it’s the name of one of the 72 demons bound by King Solomon in the _Goetia_. That’s not where I picked it up though - he was cast as the Demon-Prince of Black Humour in a tongue-in-cheek RPG I played a lot a long time ago. In this setting he was a guy, inasmuch as fallen angels have sexes. So that fits. \*\*Malacandra \*\*always trips me though. I keep forgetting he’s a guy. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514/60 "2010-09-14T09:38:43Z")
Unless double feminine makes masculine like two negatives make a positive, I’m female. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-sd-id-go-against-your-gender/553514.md?page=4)