# Regular Dopers: are you female, male, or other? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 6, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523 "2018-06-06T05:46:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/1 "2018-06-06T05:46:08Z")
I’ll define regular as checking these boards at least a few times a week and at least occasionally posting. This one a public poll. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/2 "2018-06-06T05:50:07Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/3 "2018-06-06T05:57:00Z")
Not aware and the one referenced in that ATMB thread is not a similar question at all. This is a simple question to get as close to fact finding as is realistically possible. And dang, thought I clicked “public.” ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/4 "2018-06-06T06:15:17Z")
This will give you some good data on the gender ratio of people who respond to polls about their gender. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/5 "2018-06-06T06:28:26Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > This will give you some good data on the gender ratio of people who respond to polls about their gender. Isn’t that how all polls work? Easy poll questions usually can do ok. Eta: especially since DSeid accidentally mde it private so undercover girls don’t have to out themselves. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/6 "2018-06-06T06:46:18Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Not aware and the one referenced in that ATMB thread is not a similar question at all. This is a simple question to get as close to fact finding as is realistically possible. > > And dang, thought I clicked “public.” Yeah, I was totally wrong, hence the edit. I think I \*did \*see a poll like this recently though. It was possibly an old thread linked to in one of the recent misogyny threads. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/7 "2018-06-06T12:08:21Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > This will give you some good data on the gender ratio of people who respond to polls about their gender. > [@CarnalK](#): > > Isn’t that how all polls work? Easy poll questions usually can do ok. > > Eta: especially since DSeid accidentally mde it private so undercover girls don’t have to out themselves. In reverse order - **CarnalK** , “undercover girls” who don’t want to be outed?? But yes **Riemann** , this poll is only “as close to fact finding as is realistically possible” - I am under no delusions that any poll here is a scientific sampling. The only other way I can think of to try to get that information would be to go into posts over the last week and tabulate how many are by those who I know have identified as female, male, or other. But while I know the gender of _some_ regulars I don’t for many others. (And have sometimes been surprised when a poster has self-identified as one or the other, in both directions.) Plus I don’t have the time or energy for that project. Feel free. Do you have a better method to suggest? Go for it. **steatopygia** , your alter to “NM” had occurred in crosspost and probably I should have edited to make mine a NM too! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/8 "2018-06-06T12:42:50Z")
As always, I vote Yes. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/9 "2018-06-06T13:37:19Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Isn’t that how all polls work? Easy poll questions usually can do ok. > > Eta: especially since DSeid accidentally mde it private so undercover girls don’t have to out themselves. I was thinking the same thing about trans/genderqueer people. Good example of male privilege. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/10 "2018-06-06T13:45:07Z")
I’m a Boy I’m a Boy But my Ma won’t admit it I’m a Boy I’m a Boy I’m a Boy ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/11 "2018-06-06T14:20:29Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I’m a Boy > I’m a Boy > But my Ma won’t admit it > I’m a Boy > I’m a Boy > I’m a Boy I thought you were so butch! ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/12 "2018-06-06T15:17:06Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > In reverse order - **CarnalK** , “undercover girls” who don’t want to be outed?? Probably happens less nowadays, but some females used to leave their sex ambiguous so they didn’t get flirted with online. And as Weedy said, some “others” may want to be thought of as the gender of their identification rather than trans or fluid or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/13 "2018-06-06T15:20:02Z")
Male. And with the fiber supplements fairly regular. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/14 "2018-06-06T19:29:47Z")
> [@](#): > > I cut down trees, > I wear high heels > Suspenders and a bra > I wish I were a girlie > Just like my dear papa - Monty Python ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/15 "2018-06-06T20:17:01Z")
Male, wholly male and nothing but male, so help me God. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/16 "2018-06-06T20:26:25Z")
I’ll take the Fifth. And, after drinking all of that whisky I’ll refuse to answer on the grounds that it may be self-discriminating. [Where is the smiley for “woefully-inebriated”?] –G! P.S. My sub has orders to refuse to answer on my behalf. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/17 "2018-06-06T21:45:25Z")
I’m male, but there’s virtually no definition of the term “regular” for which I qualify. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/18 "2018-06-06T21:46:40Z")
Female, been here a long time, but I’m not so much a regular anymore. Still want me to vote? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/19 "2018-06-06T22:03:25Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > I’m male, but there’s virtually no definition of the term “regular” for which I qualify. > [@Missy2U](#): > > Female, been here a long time, but I’m not so much a regular anymore. Still want me to vote? You’re both over a post per day, can’t see how that’s not pretty regular. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/20 "2018-06-06T22:16:41Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > You’re both over a post per day, can’t see how that’s not pretty regular. Well, if you want to define it _that_ way, but that strikes me as an odd way to put it. I just talk a hell of a lot when I talk, and vanish for days at a time. ETA - but I suppose that IS the way the OP defines it, so I’ll let it slide… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523.md?page=2)