# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**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, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/21 "2018-06-06T22:32:21Z")
You vanish for whole days at a time? My my, you’re quite the internet nomad, aren’t you. ---
**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, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/22 "2018-06-06T23:20:35Z")
> [@Weedy](#): > > I was thinking the same thing about trans/genderqueer people. Good example of male privilege. ? An individual should respond in accordance with (and responded to in kind as) their preferred pronoun(s). To me that is their gender identity, be it “he”, “she”, “they”, other or variable/fluid depending on whatever factors it varies with. Having that preferred gender identification associated in a poll with a nom de keyboard would bias against responding comfortably? Don’t think so. But what’evs. Private it is. > [@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? Definition of “regular” for the purpose of this thread defined in the op. I’d have a hard time coming up with definition that did include someone with your posting histories as “regulars.” ---
**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, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/23 "2018-06-06T23:33:25Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > You vanish for whole days at a time? My my, you’re quite the internet nomad, aren’t you. Days, weeks, there was that one time it was years… there’s variance. It’s all a bit beside the point. In any case I now concede that, per the definition in the OP, I am regular. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/24 "2018-06-07T01:53:39Z")
> [@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 But if I say I am I get it! Good god, I didn’t take a breath as I finished the thread to post this! How does anyone leave that one hanging? OP: Male. 12year old male trapped in an overfed, middle age, middle class, male. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/25 "2018-06-07T02:16:31Z")
Previous thread on topic: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=830200](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=830200) ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/26 "2018-06-07T02:26:18Z")
Ok, I voted. I too am here sometimes, but also take breaks for awhile, so I guess I’m more irregu - no. I am NOT going there. 😉 TMI! 😃 ---
**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 7, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/27 "2018-06-07T11:45:04Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > Previous thread on topic: > > [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=830200](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=830200) Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/28 "2018-06-07T16:25:17Z")
Wow, the Dope really _is_ male, then. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/29 "2018-06-07T17:25:57Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Wow, the Dope really _is_ male, then. It’s a forum that allows us to mansplain to the world. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/30 "2018-06-07T20:48:34Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > 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. Why would somebody who identifies as male or female choose anything other than their identified gender (be that ‘other’, or their assigned sex), whether they’re cis or trans? Now, non-binary people of all the various stripes _are_ certainly more likely to vote if it’s anonymous, and thus one doesn’t have to out oneself as not identifying as binary male or female, in an environment where one can’t be entirely sure one’s identity will be accepted. But that’s not really ‘want[ing] to be thought of as the gender of their identification’, that’s ‘fearing or acknowledging that their identity won’t be accepted’, since the entire thing of being non-binary is that you don’t identify as one of the binary genders (could be agender, third gender, fluid identity, blending the genders, etc, etc, etc). (FTR, as one of the ‘other’ voters - fluid, prefer ‘she/her’ as a generic, don’t mind ‘they’.) ---
**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 7, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/31 "2018-06-07T22:05:07Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > ? > > An individual should respond in accordance with (and responded to in kind as) their preferred pronoun(s). To me that is their gender identity, be it “he”, “she”, “they”, other or variable/fluid depending on whatever factors it varies with. Having that preferred gender identification associated in a poll with a nom de keyboard would bias against responding comfortably? Don’t think so. > > But what’evs. Private it is. Sometimes women and trans people get harassed online, purely for being a woman, or trans. So people might be reluctant to out themselves. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/32 "2018-06-07T23:35:12Z")
Wwel the perecentages are about what I would have expected the to be: M: 67%m F 33%. ---
**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 7, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/33 "2018-06-07T23:41:03Z")
Looks closer to a 3/4:1/4 split than a 2/3:1/3 split to me. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523/34 "2018-06-08T02:45:42Z")
The percentages are right there… ~70% men ~29% women ~1% nonbinary. Men outnumber women about 2.4:1. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-dopers-are-you-female-male-or-other/815523.md?page=1)