I think it’s because of Helen’s Eidelon, for some odd reason. Somehow my brain connects the two.
My first thought on seeing this thread was Covered in Bees!.
Sorry dude.
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.
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.
Male tabby here. 
I still don’t know why people assume I’m female, I always thought my writing style was rather stereotypically male.
It’s your signature. Kittens and female cats say “mew”. Adult males say “merow”.
Funny, the ones I meet always say “Feed me, bitch!”
You are wrong. I am actually a labrador retreiverposting on this board.
Covered in Bees will always be Eddie Izzard, to me.
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:
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!
Which Malacandra had a really hard time with for a long time. 
I’m often mistaken for male, and in fact, the character I took my name from is male. I, however, am not.
StG
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!
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.
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.
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:
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.
Not a whoosh, I just brain-farted is all. :smack:
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