# Please tell me what gender you are--or, I’ve been wrong all along! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001 "2000-11-06T20:54:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/1 "2000-11-06T20:54:59Z")
Recently, seeing **Maeglin’s** (god, I hope I am spelling that right) picture, I was surprised to find out he is a male. Just now, in another thread, I learn that **wring** is female. I always assumed her to be a male. I’ll start. I am male. you? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/2 "2000-11-06T21:02:44Z")
you know, I opened this thread to post “yea, lots of folks seem to think I’m male,” and here you beat me to it! Don’t know why (other than my screen name is ambiguous). but, yea, female here… ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/3 "2000-11-06T21:03:31Z")
Female. [Here](http://www.geocities.com/sdpeoplepages/porcupine.html) is my pic with my best boy Gizmo. There is some cleavage, but **Valerieblaise** broke the meter. ---
**Author:** ![Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/779978/32.png) [@Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zumba_The_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/4 "2000-11-06T21:04:00Z")
Zumba The Cat is a female. The first part of my sig was meant to point out the fact that I was female. A couple of people have missed it but I think that most people know. I thought that Maeglin was a female too. Sorry Maeglin!! ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/5 "2000-11-06T21:09:46Z")
**CnoteChris**. I’m a guy. The first part of my name is meant to imply that I like music. In fact, I’m hoping to be a conductor some day. The second part of my name is, well, my name- Chris. ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/6 "2000-11-06T21:10:45Z")
porcupine, that’s a GREAT picture of you. You look fabulous. If anyone hasn’t guessed by now: naughty Catholic girl. C’mon, the username says it all. How’re you holding up, mouthbreather? ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/7 "2000-11-06T21:16:20Z")
> [@](#): > > How’re you holding up, mouthbreather? Much better now, thanks for asking 😉 ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/8 "2000-11-06T21:17:55Z")
I’m a woman. It somehow didn’t occur to me that people wouldn’t realize that until someone referred to me as “he” in a thread. Someone else (my memory is long gone) told me in chat that s/he assumed only a man would have the ego to refer to himself as a “legend.” Someday, I too may have a picture available, but until then I’d just like everyone to think of me as being something along the lines of an urban legend. A female one. ---
**Author:** ![Anniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@Anniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniz)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/9 "2000-11-06T21:21:23Z")
**Femal** , if anyone missed it. And also if you doubt it, maybe **Montfort** can confirm it later.:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/10 "2000-11-06T21:22:12Z")
Just so your not confused, I’m a male. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/11 "2000-11-06T21:23:36Z")
Female. (Mistaken twice in postings as male.) **CNoteChris** - I thought CNote was a $100 bill/ accounting reference. Seriously. Thanks for clarifying that. The things you learn on this board. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/12 "2000-11-06T21:24:49Z")
Silo, I hate to admit it, but that made me laugh. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/13 "2000-11-06T21:36:50Z")
I’ll give you one guess. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/14 "2000-11-06T21:46:35Z")
I though t it was pretty obvious until the Chifest when Silent-Bob said, “My biggest surprise is that you are a guy.” Thanks, Bob. ( :wally ) ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/15 "2000-11-06T21:50:31Z")
I’m actually a superintelligent colony of slime mold, and I reproduce by mitosis. I’ve spent so long in this shape, though, that I’ve developed an unhealthy attraction to human females, and am shunned by the other superintelligent slime mold colonies. My story is a tragic one, really. Maybe some day I’ll write my memoirs. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/16 "2000-11-06T21:56:47Z")
Jack, I might need three guesses. Lux – Funny, this whole time I thought you were a plant. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/17 "2000-11-06T22:00:49Z")
**Screech** - While I enjoy music as much as the next person, I doubt I’ll ever be a conductor ::sniff::. I’m not sure what my name really means. It was late one night and, well, it just seemed right. Ever since I asked someone on the board what they thought I looked like, based on my username, and they said ‘I see you with a felt purple fedora, a faux silk ascot and white shoes’, I thought I should try to downplay the **Cnote** part of my username. Obviously, a conductor is farthest from the pimp image I was apparently associated with. But that doesn’t seem to fit either. It means whatever it is you want it to mean. ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/18 "2000-11-06T22:01:02Z")
Male here. 😃 I generally like to read through post count parties to tell someones gender. It seems you get the old 8th grade dance thing going on, boys on the right - girls on the left. (that and the blatant sexual references!) ``` :eek: ``` Dont feel bad **screech-owl** I thought **CNoteChris** stood for $100 as well! I had the image he was a good tipper. It gives it a whole new meaning! (can you tell I am trying to learn vB codes? I’ll give you a couple examples why) [list=1] [li]Looks more professional.[/li][li]Makes me ‘seem’ more credible.[/li][li]Hi Opal![/li][/list=1] ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/19 "2000-11-06T22:03:02Z")
boys have a penis, girls have a vagina. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001/20 "2000-11-06T22:09:01Z")
People have been mistaking my user name for years. It’s no big deal. At least no one here has tried to harass me or anything. That always makes for a good story. MR M stands for Martin [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-what-gender-you-are-or-i-ve-been-wrong-all-along/40001.md?page=2)