# Okay, I think it's time for another gender clarification thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2005, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136 "2005-10-27T06:57:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/1 "2005-10-27T06:57:46Z")
Huh. So I recently read and discovered in a thread that **Go You Big Red Fire Engine** is female. I always thought she was a male. And I always thought that **fishbicycle** was female. Bzzt. I was wrong again. He surely has male parts. **TVeblen**? I have no freaking idea. From “it’s” posts I always assumed and thought (or rather got the impression) that “it” was female, but they could be a male…No offense meant at the referal to it. I just don’t know what pronoun to use. :o I’m a male. Are YOU male or female? ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/2 "2005-10-27T06:59:15Z")
Yes. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/3 "2005-10-27T07:02:49Z")
I’m female, but I’ve long given up on correcting folks on the internet. They can think I’m a guy. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/4 "2005-10-27T07:07:02Z")
I’m a male not that it matters. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2005, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/5 "2005-10-27T07:34:23Z")
Lemme check… Female. Gender: Clarified ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/6 "2005-10-27T07:50:59Z")
FeMale. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/7 "2005-10-27T07:56:30Z")
Please! I’m a lady, of course. 😃 Well, maybe not a _Lady_ but I am female. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/8 "2005-10-27T08:01:08Z")
Not very feminine, but definitely female. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/9 "2005-10-27T08:01:30Z")
Well, maybe it’s just me, but already 2 other of my misconceptions have been cleared as I always thought **Darkside** and **BoS** were males. :o I’d like to think I wasn’t the only one…so this thread does help a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/10 "2005-10-27T08:28:09Z")
I be a chixx0r. That would be with grrly-parts, not boy-bits. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/11 "2005-10-27T08:37:21Z")
> [@Sierra Indigo](#): > > I be a chixx0r. That would be with grrly-parts, not boy-bits. Full Disclosure: I am male. However, I am not French, nor do I hold any doctoral degree(s). ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/12 "2005-10-27T09:24:05Z")
So many people figured my screen name must be Spanish, and so few have read _Out of the Silent Planet_, that I was obliged to stick a little something in the “Location” field. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/13 "2005-10-27T09:34:54Z")
Actually, I _like_ not knowing. It allows me to be more open to the poster. When I know that someone is male, female, old, young, of a certain race, or political persuasion, my own interpreting- bias shows up, with shyness in its wake. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/14 "2005-10-27T09:46:10Z")
Female. Anastasaeon = Anastasia + ancient [star, according to my husband] suffix. I thought it was pretty feminine. However, since I’ve been mistaken for a male dozens of times, I suppose it’s not that obvious. And at 27, I’m not even that old. Not that it matters tremendously… some days I feel more like defending my sex than others, for some strange, subconcious reason. Most days I feel androgynous, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/15 "2005-10-27T10:08:20Z")
I’m a 42 year old female. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/16 "2005-10-27T11:58:20Z")
Male here. Large. Hairy. Gay. Pretty brown eyes. Need to know anything else? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LiQUiDBuD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@LiQUiDBuD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiQUiDBuD)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/17 "2005-10-27T12:08:08Z")
I am a maleman ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/18 "2005-10-27T12:21:57Z")
I am male, not that anyone seems to care. (I _have_ been mistaken for female here in the past. Must be the username.) **LiQUiDBuD** : “Maleman”. Heh. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/19 "2005-10-27T12:25:06Z")
I’m female, but I doubt anyone would think that someone with _Bunny_ in their username is a dude (Kids in the Hall reference or not). ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/20 "2005-10-27T12:32:10Z")
I’m a guy. See the last three letters of my username? G-U-Y. It spells guy. As in male. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136.md?page=2)