# Post your gender here!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 3, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050 "2000-08-03T21:22:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![orestes543](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b5e925/32.png) [@orestes543](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orestes543)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2000, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/101 "2000-08-06T02:27:57Z")

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Since my name really doesn’t tell anybody, I happen to be minus the y-chromosome, so, presumably, I would be female. 😃

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**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2000, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/102 "2000-08-06T08:00:59Z")

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[QUOTE]  
\*Originally posted by JavaMaven1 \*  
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> [@](#):
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> Than men their minds! 'tis true.  
> O heaven! were man  
> But constant, he were perfect. That one error  
> Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins:  
> Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.  
> What is in Silvia’s face, but I may spy  
> More fresh in Julia’s with a constant eye?
> 
> –The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 5, Scene 4  
> \*\*

“For there’s no motion  
That tends to vice in man,  
but I affirm  
It is the woman’s part:  
be it lying, note it,  
The woman’s; flattering, hers;  
deceiving, hers;  
Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers;  
revenges, hers;  
Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain,  
Nice longing, slanders, mutability,  
All faults that may be named,  
nay, that hell knows,  
Why, hers, in part or all; but rather, all;  
For even to vice  
They are not constant but are changing still”  
–Cymbeline, Act 2, Scene v 😃

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**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2000, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/103 "2000-08-06T08:05:54Z")

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> \*Originally posted by DAVEW0071 \*  
> \*\*Well, there’s the fact that I’m Dave, The Dave-Guy, and Sakura’s father. But just in case you wondered…
> 
> “What, with my tongue in your tail? nay,  
> Good Kate; I am a gentleman.”
> 
> –The Taming of the Shrew  
> Act II, Scene i  
> \*\*

Good God! The felching quote is back. :rolleyes:  
\*\*

> [@](#):
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> And just so you know, DRY, Sakura’s looking for a Shakespearean gender-revealing quote too!
> 
> This is fun!  
> \*\*

Here are two suggestions (but the possibilities are endless):

“Do you not know I am a woman?  
when I think, I must speak”  
–As You Like It, Act 3, Scene ii

“I grant I am a woman; but withal  
A woman well-reputed, [DAVEW0071]'s daughter.  
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,  
Being so father’d”  
–Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene i

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**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2000, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/104 "2000-08-06T08:46:20Z")

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> \*Originally posted by DRY \*  
> \*\*

“For there’s no motion  
That tends to vice in man,  
but I affirm  
It is the woman’s part:  
be it lying, note it,  
The woman’s; flattering, hers;  
deceiving, hers;  
Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers;  
revenges, hers;  
Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain,  
Nice longing, slanders, mutability,  
All faults that may be named,  
nay, that hell knows,  
Why, hers, in part or all; but rather, all;  
For even to vice  
They are not constant but are changing still”  
–Cymbeline, Act 2, Scene v 😃

\*\*  
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O dear discretion, how his words are suited!  
The fool hath planted in his memory  
An army of good words; and I do know  
A many fools, that stand in better place,  
Garnish’d like him, that for a tricksy word  
Defy the matter.  
–The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 5

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**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2000, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/105 "2000-08-06T10:16:33Z")

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[QUOTE]  
\*Originally posted by JavaMaven1 \*  
\*\*

> [@](#):
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> O dear discretion, how his words are suited!  
> The fool hath planted in his memory  
> An army of good words; and I do know  
> A many fools, that stand in better place,  
> Garnish’d like him, that for a tricksy word  
> Defy the matter.  
> –The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 5
> 
> \*\*

“Thou wilt be like a lover presently  
And tire the hearer with a book of words.”  
–Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene i

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2000, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/106 "2000-08-06T12:13:20Z")

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> \*Originally posted by orestes543 \*  
> \*\*Since my name really doesn’t tell anybody, I happen to be minus the y-chromosome, so, presumably, I would be female. 😃 \*\*

Well, your name DOES tell SOME people, tells them wrong in fact. Maybe you should change it to electra543?

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**Author:** ![orestes543](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b5e925/32.png) [@orestes543](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orestes543)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2000, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/107 "2000-08-06T12:19:02Z")

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> \*\*  
> Well, your name DOES tell SOME people, tells them wrong in fact. Maybe you should change it to electra543? \*\*

I don’t fit the “electra” part too well, so I don’t think I will be changing my name any time soon. And I guess I should have worded my post a little differently to say “I know what you’re thinking and what it looks like, but I am a female”. Maybe that would have sounded a little better. 🙂

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2000, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/108 "2000-08-06T12:34:18Z")

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Well, you can make up for it. Invite your mother online, but require her to call herself clytemnestra543.

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2000, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/109 "2000-08-06T14:08:59Z")

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Male, if anyone still cares…

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**Author:** ![Sakura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sakura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sakura)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/110 "2000-08-06T19:36:18Z")

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\*\* “I am all the daughters of my father’s house…”  
Twelfth Night or What You Will Act II, Scene II.

“But though I am a daughter to his blood,  
I am to his manners.”  
The Merchant of Venice" Act II, Scene IV.\*\*

(Read the two quotes as one & it sounds pretty good.)

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**Author:** ![Sakura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sakura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sakura)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2000, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/111 "2000-08-06T19:40:46Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Sakura \*  
> **"But though I am a daughter to his blood,  
> I am to his manners."  
> The Merchant of Venice Act II, Scene IV.**
> 
> \*\*

Mis-type. It should read:

\*\* “But though I am a daughter to his blood,  
I am\*\* not \*\* to his manners.”  
The Merchant of Venice Act II, Scene IV.\*\*

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**Author:** ![00\_Buckshot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/f0a364/32.png) [@00\_Buckshot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/00_Buckshot)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/112 "2000-08-07T02:25:52Z")

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Caucasian

00

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**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/113 "2000-08-07T05:07:06Z")

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Physically? 100% male  
Psychologically? about 75% male  
_Adam was a rough draft._

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**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/114 "2000-08-07T05:55:58Z")

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[QUOTE]  
\*Originally posted by DRY \*  
\*\*

> [@](#):
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> “Thou wilt be like a lover presently  
> And tire the hearer with a book of words.”  
> –Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene i  
> \*\*

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,  
Or else my heart concealing it will break,  
And rather than it shall, I will be free  
Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.

–The Taming of the Shrew, Act 4, Scene 3

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**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/115 "2000-08-07T09:33:44Z")

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[QUOTE]  
\*Originally posted by JavaMaven1 \*  
\*\*

> [@](#):
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> My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,  
> Or else my heart concealing it will break,  
> And rather than it shall, I will be free  
> Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.
> 
> –The Taming of the Shrew, Act 4, Scene 3  
> \*\*

“Zounds! I was never so bethump’d with words  
Since I first call’d my brother’s father dad.”  
–King John, Act 2, Scene i

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**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/116 "2000-08-07T10:10:55Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by DRY \*  
> \*\*  
> “Zounds! I was never so bethump’d with words  
> Since I first call’d my brother’s father dad.”  
> –King John, Act 2, Scene i \*\*

“What cracker is this same, that deafs our ears  
With this abundance of superfluous breath?”  
–King John, Act 2, Scene 1

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/117 "2000-08-07T15:20:31Z")

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when I first got here, I never “posted” my gender, but never made it a secret, either. Then, I got a really negative response from another poster (“You want a piece of me, tell me where you live and I’ll show you what I’ve got” - not wanting to revive THAT thread, thank you, but that was the specific, minus the profanity), and since that poster started referring to me as “Mr wring”, I thought, it might be in my best interest to let the error alone. But, then I also realized that, as anonymous as these things are, there is also an element of trust, and frankly, it’s difficult to relate information without including gender specifics. So: for the record, I’m female, 45, and very unlikely to get into a physical fight with anyone, thank you.

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**Author:** ![Zinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e95f7d/32.png) [@Zinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zinger)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/118 "2000-08-07T15:57:01Z")

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Holy crap! I AM female! How am I gonna break this to my girlfriend???

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**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/119 "2000-08-07T16:17:45Z")

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…wearing a dayglo-painted fish barrette, a bra that’s uncomfortable, and a skirt.

Or I’m just FABULOUS! 😉

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**Author:** ![Crash101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@Crash101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crash101)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-gender-here/28050/120 "2000-08-07T16:57:02Z")

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female

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