# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/41 "2009-10-28T04:39:33Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’m occasionally confused for a dudette, even though I’m a dude. If I were otherwise, I’d be **Elendil’s Heiress**. I think it’s because of **Helen’s Eidelon** , for some odd reason. Somehow my brain connects the two. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/42 "2009-10-28T04:48:24Z")
My first thought on seeing this thread was **Covered in Bees!**. Sorry dude. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/43 "2009-10-28T05:04:26Z")
I’ve been referred to as male several times on this board, although my user name is is the name of a daughter of Aegir and Ran in Norse mythology. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/44 "2009-10-28T06:05:41Z")
Before the great SDMB blackout of 2002 I used to go by the username Janet Orr. Can you guess what I did for a living? When the board got straight again I decided to come back as Peanuthead just to avoid being assumed a female. I am indeed a male. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/45 "2009-10-28T06:22:20Z")
Male tabby here. 😃 I still don’t know why people assume I’m female, I always thought my writing style was rather stereotypically 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, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/46 "2009-10-28T07:22:56Z")
It’s your signature. Kittens and female cats say “mew”. Adult males say “merow”. ---
**Author:** ![kombatminipig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@kombatminipig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kombatminipig)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/47 "2009-10-28T09:45:25Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > It’s your signature. Kittens and female cats say “mew”. Adult males say “merow”. Funny, the ones I meet always say “Feed me, bitch!” ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/48 "2009-10-28T10:04:15Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > 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?) You are wrong. I am actually a [labrador retreiver](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=535866)posting on this board. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/49 "2009-10-28T10:06:27Z")
Covered in Bees will always be Eddie Izzard, to me. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/50 "2009-10-28T11:39:40Z")
For years I had mistaken the former **Jomo Mojo** for male, until she finally asserted she was a woman. Admittedly, that had been a case of massive self-deception on my part. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/51 "2009-10-28T14:09:11Z")
I’ve been assumed to be a guy at times. I think my name’s pretty neutral, so it’s probably the ol’ default-to-male thing. I did used to think **Kimmy\_Gibbler** was a girl, for obvious reasons, but I can’t think of any major surprises beyond that. **Covered\_In\_Bees!** , I’m betting it’s the exclamation point. And as for **Tabby\_Cat** , I think it’s a double-whammy: - lots of people associate cats with women, and/or assume that most guys hate cats - “tabby” seems diminutive, like “kitty” And Q is \*totally \*a feminine letter. On decks of cards and in kid’s picture books, it always stands for “queen” - the King of Women! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/52 "2009-10-28T14:10:47Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > If the name ends in “us” I usually assume it’s a guy. So to the OP, I’ve always assumed you were male. Same with **Malthus**. I often tend to assume dopers that end in -a are female. **Lamia** , **Aanamika** , etc. Which Malacandra had a really hard time with for a long time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/53 "2009-10-28T14:24:12Z")
I’m often mistaken for male, and in fact, the character I took my name from is male. I, however, am not. StG ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/54 "2009-10-28T14:49:57Z")
I’m not sure why, but punctuation in a username always makes me lean towards “female” for the poster. Same story for usernames that are a phrase instead of a name, like **Covered in Bees** , **ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies** , **I Have Hippos In My Garden** , **Unauthorized Cinnamon** , etc. Once corrected, I try very hard to keep everyone’s gender straight, but it’s hard! ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/55 "2009-10-28T14:57:26Z")
Yes, I am indeed Male. It is Ms. Was, it comes from my William Burroughs phase. I was reading about his cutup style and I read “the ms. was none other than an early copy of ‘The Naked Lunch’”. I was also really into the game Mage the Ascension at the time, so I created a character named Ms. Was who was a technocrat bureaucrat who governed and enforced the boundaries of time-space and punished transgressors. She was basically a very severe schoolmarmish type with her hair in a meticulous bun, a skirt-suit, horn-rimmed glasses, two inch heels who carried a clip-board around with her, though the clip-board was really a very advanced sort of tablet PC. It was my first attempt at creating a work using the cut-up style. I stuck with it because I just liked the way Ms. Was sounded together. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/56 "2009-10-28T15:11:40Z")
Strangely, I never get confused for the wrong sex, even though my name is pretty gender-neutral. I had a tough time getting **NurseCarmen** right. He’s a dude, but I always see “nurse” and assume “female”. I know, I know… **Cat Fight** , just for the record, I always have and always will picture you as _two_ people - the Miller Lite catfight girls. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/57 "2009-10-28T15:36:32Z")
> [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I’ve been assumed to be a guy at times. I think my name’s pretty neutral, so it’s probably the ol’ default-to-male thing. Only males are dorky: it’s not a quality that I would associate with a woman. So I’ve got your gender wrong all this time :smack: ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/58 "2009-10-28T15:42:50Z")
I automatically assume the poster is male, unless the user name suggests otherwise. The interwebs tend to be a sausage fest. I did think \*\*Covered In Bees \*\*was a girl, though. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/59 "2009-10-28T15:49:14Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > If this isn’t a whoosh… see OP for details. Not a whoosh, I just brain-farted is all. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339/60 "2009-10-28T15:52:11Z")
Covered in bees sounds like a manly name to me\*…Always thought that poster as male and probably a beekeeper. 🙂 \*Not as manly as a duck-type name but close [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-always-get-their-gender-wrong/515339.md?page=4)