I hasten to point out …
the thread is called:
“I can no longer go on living a lie - I am female!!”
Being female is just a great excuse to lie!
That is what women do best!
duck
Sorry DDG, I don’t think you understood my point. It has nothing to do with you being a female, it has to do with you being a MARRIED female. I wouldn’t be comfortable corresponding with a married woman. That was the point I was trying to make. Obviously if you were a man being married would be a non-issue, but corresponding to a married woman is not something I am comfortable with. I am sorry for being unclear about this but it didn’t even dawn on me you wouldn’t realize that was what I meant. Mea culpa.
Saints preserve us! You’re saying you can only be friends with a woman who is “available”? That you can’t be friends with someone there’s no possibility of boinking? Jeepers.
Or is it not a sex thing, just an availability thing? You can only be friends with a woman with whom there is the possibility of forming a permanent relationship? Can I ask you a real personal, serious, non-trolling question?
Do you have sisters? Do you have aunts? Is your mother still alive? How do you relate to them? Are you not friends with them?
Don’t you have female co-workers with whom you are friends? Are you friends only with the ones that are “available”? The mind boggles. You’re cutting yourself off from half the human race, sweetie. No wonder you’re lonesome. Statistically speaking, you’re worsening your chances of finding a friend by eliminating half the prospects in the first place.
Join a club. Join a church. Do volunteer work at the library or nursing home. Learn to play a musical instrument, or poker. Join a bowling league. Get out and meet some people, babe. That’s how you combat the “grim lonesomes”. Do something nice for somebody else and you’ll be amazed how fast it’ll come back to ya.
And just because the person you’re talking to has tits that are off-limits doesn’t mean she can’t be your friend.
What the hell is that supposed to mean? Especially after I just posted in here that I wasn’t?
DDG, I never said anything about friends, I just said I wasn’t comfortable emailing a married woman. That was my point and my only point. It has nothing to do with being available or not being available, it has to do with respecting the married person’s relationship. If I was married I would be bothered if my wife was corresponding with someone, so I wouldn’t correspond with someone else’s wife.
Hope that clarifies things. And I still think you are one of my favorite posters, only second to MagicalSilverKey.
Oh, it’s cuz she’s HITCHED. I apologize for accusing you of not being a guy of the 21st century. Instead, you are proving yourself to be truly a gentleman of the 19th, which we need more of.
It makes sense to me. I think a husband would be acquitted in this state for shooting some guy his wife was emailing.
WHAT???
As for DDG, I thought “she” was a “he”, because IIRC, she (as NTM) made a post about “his wife” (or so I recall). I may be mistaken about his.
But as for Audrey, try doing a search of the posts she’s made and the threads she’s been in. This one gets around!
I know what you mean about “very few gender-ambiguous names”, DDG. I actually once wrote a computer program to determine the sex of online names based on clues like the ending and letter frequencies and such, and barring deliberately misleading names, it was about 95% accurate. I suppose you could have used a foreign name… Some languages use completely different rules for distinguishing gender in names.
Another question, meanwhile… Didn’t it feel weird to see people referring to you as “he”? Or did you just get used to it, the same way that we all get used to noticing our screen names?
By the way, as to Anthracite, her sig for her first few weeks of posting was “The lesbian who knows the most about coal power plants”, or something to that effect. I don’t think that leaves much doubt, personally.
[southern accent] Well hell, little missy, I knowed it all along, ya’ kant bullshit a bullshiter. So hows about you and me kickin’ up a heel at tha dance saturday night? [\southern accent].
Welcome back Duck, hope you had a great vacation.
Anthracite says:
Let’s see now… It was posted in English right? Maybe if I explain the circumstances…
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I don’t read every post as it appears on the board. Sometimes many dozens of posts require attention. Hence between one reading of the board and the next there are many new things to be learned.
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I’d never seen your previous .sig(s).
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I’m a casual peruser of MPSIMS. My style is more in Great Debates.
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Anthracite – not a name I would expect a woman to take.
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Coal is an industry predominantly populated by men – being from that industry with a non-feminine or “cutsie” name suggested maleness.
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Claiming to be a coal EXPERT reinforced #5.
I’ll stop now – Oh, and if you’re blonde please disregard the above explanation and read the one below: -
Sorry. Won’t happen again.
Well, my only issue really was that I posted before your post asking if I was a female that I am a female. And when you asked “Anthracite is NOT a guy? Are you sure?”, it meant to me one of two things:
- That you did not believe my previous post, and
- That you couldn’t ask me directly for clarification.
That is why I was wondering. And although “what the hell” sounded a bit angry, it was not intended to be rude.
But this is all besides the fundamental point:
Seein’ as y’all are a Son of the great Southern state of Florida, a lady expects a better class of treatment from a cultured gentleman as yourself. Sir, I do declare your manners may be amiss!
(whacks SouthernStyle with her parasol and resumes drinking her sweet tea on the veranda.)
Eh, no, Chronos, it didn’t feel weird being addressed as “he”. It was kind of a kick, actually, going along with “being whoever you want to be on a MB”. I sort of enjoyed trying to see the male perspective on threads, but it was tricky to post to things like the vasectomy and menstrual clots threads without giving the show away. “Well, when my husband had his vasectomy…” or “when I have my period…” etc.
Also, in the English language, it is perfectly proper to refer to someone as “he” if you aren’t certain of the gender, Women’s Lib notwithstanding. I never held with all that PC “personkind” instead of “mankind” stuff.
And I did notice Anthracite’s “hey, I’m a lesbian!” sig, but like I’ve said, I’m just not real focussed on what gender everybody is at the Straight Dope.
Wanderer, yeah, you’re right, the Better Half would prob’ly divorce me if he caught me e-mailing another man. Sorry! 
Wow. I got the impression that you were female when you started posting to the board. Probably because of your nick or your writing style, or a combination of the two. Then I was surprised to learn you weren’t. And now you are…
Duck Duck Goose
My previous post was silly. But seriously, I enjoyed your posts as Notthemama and as Duck Duck Goose. I figured you were prolly the same person and I am glad to know that Notthemama is still here.
About your .sig. I loveLewis Carroll.
Duck Duck Goose, How do you reconsile this info on Scotticher:
"I read alot of mystery novels, work in a dentistry as an office manager, own a siamese cat (well, actually she owns me). I love trivia, and sometimes I play NTM. (A national trivia network thing).
My family is very important to me, and I spend alot of time with my father. I enjoy doing crafts, and am currently making cards like a madwoman. "
With this thread:
**Okay, we’re OUTTA here! See you in 3 weeks! **
That’s one lie, but the major one is revealed here:
Danielinthewolvesden - you have a funny name.
If I’m wrong, Duck Duck Goose should prove it, not someone else, if there is to be any credibility in the explanation.
HEY!
Why are you dragging ME into this?
Am I missing something?
Scotti
Mu Mu, what the hell are you talking about? If DDG is lying about something other than what she has already admitted to, then tell us plainly, not in an oblique ridddle. And if you are talking about Scotticher, then WTF does that have to do with DDG?
Inquiring minds want to know, Mu Mu.
What gives?
Scotti
Umm, anybody know the french band of that name? Not the sort of thing you generally want to admit top listening to…
** DDG: ** dunno, but you sorta came off as female right away. Call it intuition…
Hmmm, it never occurred to me that you might not be female.