# Dopers whose genders you assumed incorrectly **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478 "2004-03-26T01:33:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/21 "2004-03-26T03:23:37Z")
I don’t post enough for people to talk about me, so I’m quite positive no one has guess at all, let alone incorrectly. I’m a guy. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/22 "2004-03-26T03:28:38Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > But I am most assuredly a female type. Really? I always thought you were a guy… And that you looked exactly like the pilot from _Airplane_. “Don’t call me Shirley.” ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/23 "2004-03-26T03:30:27Z")
AFAIK, no one has expressed any confusion about my user name. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/24 "2004-03-26T03:36:26Z")
People always assume I’m a guy. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/25 "2004-03-26T03:49:53Z")
> [@Fat Bald Guy](#): > > AFAIK, no one has expressed any confusion about my user name. Actually, I was thinking the other day that you would have the funniest user name in the world if you were a girl. A skinny girl. With a full head of hair. That would be great. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/26 "2004-03-26T04:02:35Z")
I thought Scylla was a woman. Does anyone think emekthian sounds female? Just curious. ---
**Author:** ![Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercury)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/27 "2004-03-26T04:06:34Z")
I thought **Shodan** , **Gaudere** , **EddyTeddyFreddy** and **ShirleyUjest** were all male. I thought **NurseCarmen** was a woman. Dopers still guess my gender incorrectly. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/28 "2004-03-26T04:19:00Z")
> [@Mercury](#): > > I thought **Shodan** , **Gaudere** , **EddyTeddyFreddy** and **ShirleyUjest** were all male. Darn it! Is **Shodan** male, yes or no? This thread is confusing me!!! My world is turning upside down! ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/29 "2004-03-26T04:29:43Z")
I originally thought **EddyTeddyFreddy** were three male roommates sharing a computer and an SDMB account. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/30 "2004-03-26T04:37:21Z")
> [@Berkut](#): > > People always assume I’m a guy. Yeah, me too. What’s up with that? ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/31 "2004-03-26T04:47:54Z")
Put me in with **Starving Artist, Mercury** and **misstee** as having mistaken **EddyTeddyFreddy**. Plenty of others, but **Eddy** is the only one I know of so far whose gender I mis-stated on the board. ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/32 "2004-03-26T04:48:47Z")
**Shodan** is definitely male. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/33 "2004-03-26T05:00:06Z")
I pulled the **Nurse Carmen** boner once, and was mortified. What? As for me, fortunately I have a line for such situtations, right from Don Marquis himself. I can always recite: i am a lady archy always a lady because for some reason there are people who walk the earth not knowing about a female alley cat character created in 1916 by a poet/columnist who’s been dead for over fifty years for a newspaper (The NY Sun) that’s been gone for forty. Un-freakin’-believable. BTW, **EddyTeddyFreddy** explained once that she got her username from her three cats. Go kittycats! ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/34 "2004-03-26T05:02:28Z")
What is **Broomstick’s** gender? ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/35 "2004-03-26T05:19:06Z")
**Broomstick** is female. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/36 "2004-03-26T05:21:25Z")
> [@vunderbob](#): > > [hijack] > I’ve always assumed that Shirley was female. However, I also assumed that her name really was Shirley, mostly because I my name really is Bob. > > [/hijack] Heh. I always pegged Shirley for a woman. Mostly because until a thread here (about a year after I began posting) that catogorized people’s user names- and hers ended up in the pun catogory- I didn’t get the joke. I suppose Ujest would be an odd last name… Oh well, at least I didn’t think she was a guy, right? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/37 "2004-03-26T05:29:23Z")
**chique** is definitely male. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/38 "2004-03-26T05:34:07Z")
> [@chique](#): > > **chique** is definitely male. I said that out loud to myself just now. “Chick is a male.” My roommate poked his head in and gave me the oddest look. ---
**Author:** ![FreeRange\_Maniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/97f17d/32.png) [@FreeRange\_Maniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreeRange_Maniac)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/39 "2004-03-26T05:35:17Z")
I’ve had a lot of people mistake my gender also. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/40 "2004-03-26T05:38:01Z")
> [@chique](#): > > **chique** is definitely male. I never would have guessed that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478.md?page=3)