So, all this time, I’ve been thinking that “Blank” (who AFAIK still wishes to remain unidentifiable) was a man. Laughed my ass off when I found out otherwise.
Are there any others who still have not been able to determine gender in some posters? Any who’ve purposely avoided gender-based references to themselves? Any guesses about the androginous posters? (I’m not sure we should count TomnDebb…)
–I think Manhattan is a man.
–Even though my head knows that Shadowfox is a woman, it still confuses me when she mentions her husband.
–Jodih, Jophiel, aseymayo: men?
–Guadere: woman?
Chris is a unisexual name, but I presume I’ve posted enough references to my husband and other “girl” stuff that it’s clear I’m female, right?
That’s because I stole the Shadowfox SN from my husband! He was the one that came up with it. In fact, he still uses it for his E-mail and for a couple of online games. On the old AOL SDMB, I went by the name of “Psyche”, but I got tired of people e-mailing me, asking if I was a psychiatrist or a psychic, so I wanted to change it. I already had the name “Shadowfox” registered to my AOL account for my hubby to use, but he hated AOL and told me that I could use it if I wanted to. Hence, I became “Shadowfox”.
BTW, I was thinking of changing it to something else again. My hubby is starting to get e-mails from people saying “aren’t you on the Straight Dope message board?”
I saw a couple of threads where neuro-trash grrl was talking about a girlfriend and attractive women and I got confused. Why would a guy use the name neuro trash GRRL?
I’d been thinking about a while and feel bad that I didn’t think of this yet–
I still don’t have any facts, but I just realized that it’s entirely possible that she is a ‘grrl’ who likes other girls. It comes of growing up in the Midwest, I suppose.
But like I said, I don’t have any idea if it’s a he or a she, or what whichever’s sexual preference is. I hope I didn’t offend him/her.
Last time I checked I was a man. Yep. Still am. Although, I’ve been told so many times to go f*** myself, I was beginning to think I was a hermaphrodite.
I always figured slythe for a he, but the way he and C#3 flirt all the time …
Good guess, Chris–yep, I’m female. I am occasionally called “he”, though. I rather like the androgyny; you can talk about “male” and “female” subjects without having your opinion discounted “you’re a man/woman, you can’t understand”.
I though Polycarp was female for about a week; I guess I subconsciously associated “Poly” with “Polly”, a girl’s name. I usually assume people are male until they post something that leads me to believe otherwise, unless they have a clearly female name.
It’s the username. “Aura” just conjures up images of crystal-gazing earth-goddess types. I thought you were female at first, too, but I never made the mistake of referring to you as such.
omniscientnot and Johnny–very cute. I like being a verb.
I like being a verb.