# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/81 "2004-03-27T13:03:17Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I was just teasing … 😉 You’re the quintessence of femininity! Whooshed again… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/82 "2004-03-27T13:15:07Z")
I am female. I don’t know if anyone thinks that I am male though just by the name. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/83 "2004-03-27T13:15:17Z")
ummmmm, gentleman and gentleman are not exactly the same descriptor, so don’t be too insulted. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/84 "2004-03-27T13:17:26Z")
But I suppose I could have said “big ole hunk of handsome testosterone filled manliness” and I’ll strike gentleman and replace it with the above if you perfer. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/85 "2004-03-27T13:58:01Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Everybody thinks I’m a guy. They think that because I tell them I’m a guy. I tell them that because I’m a guy. Are you sure? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/86 "2004-03-27T14:29:25Z")
I thought **Chastain86** was a girl. I made a comment in a Cafe Society thread about _Survivor_ in which I said I agreed with “her” and he immediately corrected me. I was really embarrassed. Something about the name ‘Chastain’ just made me think he was a girl. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/87 "2004-03-27T14:43:54Z")
My user name is correct. I am female. **Biblio** , I think you’re female. Am I right? (It won’t change my admiration of your taste in tv shows, but I can get a better picture of you. :)) **Baker** is female. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/88 "2004-03-27T15:04:53Z")
Chique is a GIRL. You naughty chique! I’m a girl. I married a boy (weirddave). My neice is also a girl (Miss Magic8Ball). She added the MISS part because everyone thought she was a boy. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/89 "2004-03-27T15:36:38Z")
> [@Sylkyn](#): > > Of course, I always thought **Muffin** was female, as well as thinking **Broomstick** was male. I get a _lot_ of people thinking I’m male on message boards and e-mail lists, so if you made the same mistake don’t feel bad, you have a lot of company. I think it’s the flying hobby - not only do most folks assume “pilot” means male, most pilots _are_ male. About 20:1 male:female in general aviation, about 200:1 in ultraights, which is where I started. Fortunately for ya’ll, I don’t get upset about it - most of the time I think it’s amusing. I don’t hide my gender, but I don’t make a big deal about it unless it’s pertinent to the topic under discussion - can’t imagine the reactions of some of those readers thinking I’m male then finding some of my _\>cough\<_ rather graphic posts under threads on mestruation or other very female topics. Most Neo-Pagans guess female based on my username, but among non-Pagans it seems to be 50/50. And the nickname comes from my _religion_, not my aviation interests. (I’ve been accused of riding them, dontchya know…) Sometimes I guess wrong about a poster’s gender, but most of the time I just try to avoid the assumptions. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/90 "2004-03-27T16:11:42Z")
I have heard there has been some confusion about my name from time to time because the mythical gorgon was supposed to be female. I, however, am named after a male muppet, and as a long-time D&D player, see the gorgon as a animalistic monster instead of some girly thing. Or whatever. And stuff. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/91 "2004-03-27T16:21:12Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > But I suppose I could have said “big ole hunk of handsome testosterone filled manliness” and I’ll strike gentleman and replace it with the above if you perfer. Well, I was thinking more along the lines of “smartass”, but that’ll do. That’ll do. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/92 "2004-03-27T17:14:44Z")
_originally posted by_ **Monstro** > [@](#): > > I also used to think that you with the face was a guy, until I discovered she’s my sister. Your sister? :eek: I thought **Ashkicker** and **Broomstick** were male, alright. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/93 "2004-03-27T17:16:17Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > Something about the name ‘Chastain’ just made me think he was a girl. Maybe the mental association with [Brandy Chastain](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/siforwomen/issue_three/dear_diary/brandi/), the soccer player. I knew **Broomstick** was a female pilot, but I had always thought the name came from flying them. 😉 **Otto** is a gay guy, which may explain some of the confusion. I wasn’t too confused about **NurseCarmen** , having actually met a guy named Carmen in the past. And he was a dude you didn’t want to mess with. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/94 "2004-03-27T21:32:30Z")
Alright let’s just get this all down: **Ashkicker** - Female **Baker** - Female **Opal** - Female (I assume, Hi Opal!) **Bambi Hassenpfeffer** - Male **Broomstick** - Female **Burkut** - Female **Chastain86** - Male **Chique** - Female **Czarcasm** - Male **Dung Beetle** - Female **EddyTeddyFreddy** - Female **Fat Bald Guy** - Male **Flander** - Male **Gaudere** - Female **GingerOfTheNorth** - Female **Gorgon Heap** - Male **Ilsa\_Lund** - Male **Ivylass** - Female **Lamia** - Female **Lobelia Overhill** - Female **Miss Magic8ball** - Female **Muffin** - Male **Nurse Carmen** - Male **Otto** - Male **Pizzabrat** - Male **Pravnik** - Male **Shirley Ujest** - Female **Shodan** - Male **Snoopyfan** - Female **Tentacle Monster** - Male **Tveblen** - Female **Twickster** - Female **Vunderbob** - Male **Wierddave** - Male **you with the face** - Female **ETF** I did not know, **Broomstick** I was right though, always imagined one of these cool new age mums. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/95 "2004-03-27T21:34:12Z")
Oh, by the way can you guess what I am? :rolleyes: Shouldn’t be too hard if you’ve read my threads. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/96 "2004-03-27T21:34:46Z")
I’m fairly sure mine is pretty clear. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![WaryEri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ea666f/32.png) [@WaryEri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WaryEri)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/97 "2004-03-27T21:46:58Z")
I think I must have gotten **pizzabrat** and **monstro** mixed up, since they post together often…I though pizza was female and monstro male. I did think **Broomstick** was male at first, but it was easy to shake that impression once I found out the truth. It took forever to get rid of my mental image of **Scylla** , though. I’ve always loved that name, and putting it on a male just didn’t fit. I thought **Siege** was male at first, too. I also had some confusion about **Aldebaran** for a while, since some one said he was a muslim woman. I started out thinking male, then corrected to female, then corrected again. ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/98 "2004-03-27T21:52:45Z")
I thought **pizzabrat** was a chick and **Gaudere** was a dude. And I’m surprised that I haven’t been listed yet. I know I’ve had to correct people on my gender more than once. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/99 "2004-03-27T22:17:10Z")
> [@dantheman](#): > > I’m almost positive **chique** was being facetious. I was just [keeping up appearances](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=1152190&postcount=14)! Damn kids, spoiling my image… ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478/100 "2004-03-28T05:12:20Z")
Shoot, you guys had **me** confused for a while. I checked. I’m a guy. Or else a female with the worst moustache problem you can imagine. And a whooooooole lot of 'splaining to do to the Lovely and Talented Mrs. **Shodan**. Regards, The Manly and Masculine Rugged, Beer-drinking, Scratching, Farting, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whose-genders-you-assumed-incorrectly/236478.md?page=6)