# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/41 "2005-10-27T16:33:50Z")
Count me in the double-X chromosome club. I am all woman, baby. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/42 "2005-10-27T16:40:24Z")
Male. Not Greek, but the rest applies…except maybe the ears of an ass. No, wait… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![aurelian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@aurelian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurelian)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/43 "2005-10-27T16:43:47Z")
I’m a girl, and I am getting close to earning a doctoral degree. Yay! Only a few more years of grad student poverty! ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/44 "2005-10-27T17:03:11Z")
Female ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/45 "2005-10-27T17:10:08Z")
I think I should get a less gender specific username. I’d like to be more androgynous sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/46 "2005-10-27T17:17:20Z")
I like to think I’m a gay man trapped in a lesbian’s body. I’m not, really, but I like to think it, because it amuses me. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/47 "2005-10-27T17:17:23Z")
All the best dwarven warriors have traditionally been male. Although, actually, it’s hard to tell the females from the males sometimes (it’s the beards…). ---
**Author:** ![633squadron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/ee59a6/32.png) [@633squadron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/633squadron)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/48 "2005-10-27T17:23:37Z")
> [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > 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? Neither, you bloody twit, I’m a Royal Air Force squadron! (stupid git) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/49 "2005-10-27T17:25:59Z")
I really, really hope it’s obvious that I’m female… ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/50 "2005-10-27T17:34:08Z")
Male, I think. Hold on. _rummages around in drawers_ Ha! Found it! Yup, I’m a guy. What, you’ve never seen a bloke look for his birth certificate before? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/51 "2005-10-27T17:35:49Z")
Female. Which I think most people know by now – though when I was a newbie I was frequently assumed to be male. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/52 "2005-10-27T18:37:08Z")
Dangly bits: Check Beard: Check Wife: (ERROR E461: no longer definitive in this jurisdiction - delete from checklist) Male ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/53 "2005-10-27T18:41:10Z")
I don’t think my username causes any confusion, but just to be sure. I’m a guy, 47yo, bright, handsome and modest. well… 4 of those are true. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/54 "2005-10-27T18:43:24Z")
Male. ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/55 "2005-10-27T19:25:31Z")
Male, but to add to the confusion; I am married to **nocturne**. She is not male. Oddly we had the usernames well before we met ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/56 "2005-10-27T19:42:47Z")
Male. I didn’t think anyone was confused about that, but I was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/57 "2005-10-27T19:43:48Z")
BTW, why is there an ad for a Private INvestigator, titled “Cheating Spouses” in the Google ads? ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/58 "2005-10-27T19:55:41Z")
What part of \*\*mr bus guy \*\* would seem ambiguous I wonder? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/59 "2005-10-27T20:00:15Z")
> [@mr bus guy](#): > > What part of \*\*mr bus guy \*\* would seem ambiguous I wonder? “bus.” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136/60 "2005-10-27T20:07:35Z")
I’m male, although I created my screen name by Germanicizing the last name of a [female basketball player.](http://www.gballmag.com/qa-starbird.html) Of course, her father does have the same last name she does… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-think-its-time-for-another-gender-clarification-thread/328136.md?page=4)