# Your gender identification -or- What are you, a boy or a girl? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 6, 2018, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680 "2018-05-06T01:56:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/1 "2018-05-06T01:56:58Z")
Tonight I learned that two Dopers I though were dudes are chicks. That’s cool. Please note that this is not intended so I can judge you, nor do I give two shits about Xs and Ys. Or about who you sleep with. I just want to use the third-person pronoun you prefer I use when I’m talking behind your back. Me Boy, my parents being Tarzan and Jane. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/2 "2018-05-06T02:01:32Z")
Male. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/3 "2018-05-06T02:11:46Z")
From my comments in the pit thread “Who on Earth is designing clothes for women these days?” you can probably guess I am female. Never have doubted it one iota, definitely a girl brain in a girl body. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/4 "2018-05-06T02:18:46Z")
XX here. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/5 "2018-05-06T02:20:20Z")
XY ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/6 "2018-05-06T02:27:23Z")
‘Reply Hazy, Try Again’ Raised and currently socially coded as female. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/7 "2018-05-06T02:29:05Z")
[I’m top dog around here, but I’ve been neutered](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4vLZJhNEk). ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/8 "2018-05-06T02:39:51Z")
I’m a soul man. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/9 "2018-05-06T02:49:11Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > [I’m top dog around here, but I’ve been neutered](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4vLZJhNEk). There’s a reason people with dogs call it ‘getting him fixed.’ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/10 "2018-05-06T02:54:33Z")
> [@Grumbacher\_Red](#): > > From my comments in the pit thread “Who on Earth is designing clothes for women these days?” you can probably guess I am female. Not everybody reads the Pit. And your name reminds me of Grumbacher’s Cad Red Deep, which is kinda butch. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/11 "2018-05-06T02:57:47Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > ‘Reply Hazy, Try Again’ > > Raised and currently socially coded as female. Yeah, well, I have a personal anecdote about jumping to conclusions, but you know I always do. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/12 "2018-05-06T03:00:10Z")
I’m a man. Spelled m-a-n. But I have no plans for visiting Kansas in the foreseeable future. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/13 "2018-05-06T03:06:14Z")
Female. Not that there’s much for you to talk about. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/14 "2018-05-06T03:08:54Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Not everybody reads the Pit. And your name reminds me of Grumbacher’s Cad Red Deep, which is kinda butch. 😉 It’s a user name I rather regret. I like to paint, and I really like that color, and I have red hair, so the night I was registering there was a tube of it laying there…and now I am stuck with it. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/15 "2018-05-06T03:21:37Z")
No ambiguity from this quarter. I’m a dumb old male. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/16 "2018-05-06T03:23:01Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Female. Not that there’s much for you to talk about. I’ll say this much: I did not know that and I will forget before this thread rolls off the front page. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/17 "2018-05-06T04:25:37Z")
I’m a chick, but I’m from California, so you can call me dude if you want. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/18 "2018-05-06T04:51:49Z")
A. I gave up for reasons and started calling everybody dude a long time age. B. Wife was Welshish and when that song came out she said, “But Rhiannon is a guy name.” I started my Stevie Nicks anecdote and that shut her right up. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/19 "2018-05-06T05:31:59Z")
Manly man. If I ever get in touch with my feminine side, I will never get anything else done. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680/20 "2018-05-06T07:08:44Z")
I asked, “Am I male or female,” checked the Magic 8-Ball, and got the following answer: “My sources say no.” 😕 So I did it the old-fashioned way: dropped trou and looked. According to the plumbing God/Allah/Yahweh/Shiva/Buddha/The Great Pumpkin/Murphy/Random Genetic Chance gave me: Male. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gender-identification-or-what-are-you-a-boy-or-a-girl/813680.md?page=2)