# Which Dopers do you always get their gender wrong? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 27, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339 "2009-10-27T19:43:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/21 "2009-10-27T22:52:07Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Are you female? I always thought so, but…ya never know. I’m a man. I know, I should have used “Paddy” instead but the pun would have lost some impact. I just have to remember to keep checking “show signature”. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/22 "2009-10-27T23:20:58Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > **Qadcop** , on the other hand, I’ve always pegged as male. No woman would name herself something like that. If any name could be thought of as aggressively masculine, “Qadcop the Mercotan” is it. Except it’s **Qadgop** , with a g. Don’t know if that changes anything about your perception of the name. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/23 "2009-10-27T23:23:20Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > Except it’s **Qadgop** , with a g. > > Don’t know if that changes anything about your perception of the name. 😃 :smack: But, no 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/24 "2009-10-27T23:41:27Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I always assume **Tabby Cat** is a girl. Well, I did until he made that whole thread about whether we saw tabbies as male or female. > > Used to think **Zeriel** and **Karl Grenze** were guys, too. > > Used to think **Cat In a Suit** was a girl until I played a mafia game with him and was corrected. Except that Zeriel _is_ male! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/25 "2009-10-28T00:06:44Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > Except that Zeriel _is_ male! Oops. :smack: So I was right the first time. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/26 "2009-10-28T00:20:26Z")
I’m a girl who is often mistaken for a guy. I find that a little weird, because I always associate “virgin” with females, in the classic “beautiful maiden” sense. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/27 "2009-10-28T00:22:18Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > I’m a girl who is often mistaken for a guy. I find that a little weird, because I always associate “virgin” with females, in the classic “beautiful maiden” sense. I guess others are associating it with the “Trekkie basement-dweller” sense. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/28 "2009-10-28T00:22:44Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > I’m a girl who is often mistaken for a guy. I find that a little weird, because I always associate “virgin” with females, in the classic “beautiful maiden” sense. I think I usually see “spoiler” and assume…I don’t know what. But I must confess, I could see you going either way. Wow, that sounded like a dirty come on. I’ve been mistaken for a guy a lot myself. I always say that guys don’t have slits! ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/29 "2009-10-28T00:27:15Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > I’m a girl who is often mistaken for a guy. I find that a little weird, because I always associate “virgin” with females, in the classic “beautiful maiden” sense. Just be glad your name isn’t reversed. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/30 "2009-10-28T00:35:03Z")
My mind keeps wanting to parse **mswas** as “Ms. Was.” I expected the poster known as [Scylla](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pureeviltm.com/justice/scylla.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pureeviltm.com/justice/charybdis.html&usg=__s873Q3snIkC1NUzy1OIvhvCt--M=&h=416&w=600&sz=46&hl=en&start=16&um=1&tbnid=5fUnKq9hXlAy7M:&tbnh=94&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dscylla%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1) to be female. I’m pretty sure **Carol Stream** is female, but I keep seeing others refer to her as “he” for some reason and it gets confusing. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/31 "2009-10-28T00:40:56Z")
I’m still confused about mswas. I could have sworn I used to think it was a dude. But then I think they said it’s Ms. Was. And so I assumed it’s a girl. But now I thought I saw somewhere where they referenced themselves in the masculine sense. So I just have no clue. Thought it was a girl, now feel it could be a man again? ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/32 "2009-10-28T00:41:56Z")
Nice timing. Oh, and I’m a guy. Doubt people would get confused, but you never know. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/33 "2009-10-28T03:32:45Z")
I’m a guy, but my WoW toon of the same name (which is where I took this name from) is a girl. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/34 "2009-10-28T04:02:46Z")
There’s **Bambi Hassenpfeffer** who is a guy, with a female name (so almost everyone calls him a “she”) but for some reason I always remember he is a guy. But I think my brain confuses this fact with **Shirley Ujest** and **Carol Stream** and I think they are guys with clever names. (are either of them male?) ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/35 "2009-10-28T04:06:55Z")
**mswas** is a guy. The only reason I know this as sure as one can is that him and I have enjoyed conversation of hot hippie and Wiccan chicks and when I mentioned or suggested him and I find out which were better in bed but he informed me he was happily married. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/36 "2009-10-28T04:07:27Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > **Carol Stream** I don’t get it. What is it a reference to? ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/37 "2009-10-28T04:09:45Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > I’m pretty sure **Carol Stream** is female, but I keep seeing others refer to her as “he” for some reason and it gets confusing. > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > But I think my brain confuses this fact with **Shirley Ujest** and **Carol Stream** and I think they are guys with clever names. > > (are either of them male?) For what it’s worth, Carol Stream is the name of a suburb of Chicago. Considering this, I see no reason to attribute any particular gender to the poster. If I remember correctly, in one of **Carol Stream** ’s several pittings, he was asked to confirm his sex, and he refused. So for me, he gets the default male gender. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/38 "2009-10-28T04:15:49Z")
> [@Randy\_Seltzer](#): > > For what it’s worth, Carol Stream is the name of a suburb of Chicago. Considering this, I see no reason to attribute any particular gender to the poster. If I remember correctly, in one of **Carol Stream** ’s several pittings, he was asked to confirm his sex, and he refused. So for me, he gets the default male gender. I think I remember that. It was…bizarre. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/39 "2009-10-28T04:18:23Z")
> [@HongKongFooey](#): > > How can you think of Q as feminine? it even has a little wang hanging off it. Yes. Exactly what I was going to say. Except I was going to call it a willy, not a wang. Letters don’t have wangs, they have willies. Elindil’s Heir is the only person I get regularly confused on. (And while I’d assume someone with a feminine name were female until stated otherwise (ie Kimmy\_Gibbler or Carol Stream), I’d never make the opposite assumption.) ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/40 "2009-10-28T04:38:34Z")
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