I am a woman

One eyed Jack

ABajaninCork wrote: »

I find it all amusing. A lot of posters assume I am male, Irish and white...

I am none of those things! :pac:

I often used read your username as "AJ Benjamin Cork", until I realised "A Bajan in Cork"

Had it not been for Rihanna, it honestly would never have occurred to me!

How did people miss Jenny? First time I saw it I thought -

"Well that's a bit rude! :eek:", until I realised, makes sense, it's bloody brilliant!


Yeah, often happens to me that I'm mistaken for being a woman, even despite my rather obviously male username! :rolleyes:

It's often assumed I'm gay too, but that happens just as much offline as it does online, I'm not really sure how that happens, but it's more simply amusing than it is irritating, some guys get worked up about that kinda stuff, I guess I'm just used to it...

woodchuck

I used to get mistaken for a guy a lot when I first started posting. Haven't really noticed these days... maybe everybody new I talk to still thinks I'm a guy :P

I'm not really into girly names or avatars, so maybe that's why.

It doesn't bother me though. Although it does bother me a little that a lot of guys on here just assume you're a guy unless it's obvious from your username or avatar.

Amica

I was on boards a few years ago with a different username (my real life nickname) and users constantly assumed I was a guy. It didn't bother me. It was a unisex name - or at least I thought it was! I think my username now is more obviously female

Peregrine

I do make assumptions based on name, avatar etc. Sometimes they're wrong. Usually, I refer to a third person poster as 'they' unless I know their gender.

I've been told by some posters that they thought I was female.

x Purple Pawprints x

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

With previous usernames (jingle balls, green_screen, Esoteric_, some others), many people assumed I was male.

People now assume I'm female, and named Jenny. I thought more would get the pun in my username, not just assume I'm a woman called Jenny :pac:

I also knew Mars Bar was female. :cool:

I'm so glad you're not gone completely!

ABajaninCork wrote: »

I find it all amusing. A lot of posters assume I am male, Irish and white...

I am none of those things! :pac:

:eek:

Guilty.

Not sure about this username but my previous username was my real name so I don't think I was ever mistaken as male.

racso1975

My god!!!!! So many women here I assumed/presumed were men. My apologies and shall me more conscious of gender assumptions in future. Mind truly blown

P.s. Jenny love the name :-) like others just got when talking out loud

Day Lewin

I shouldn't have picked such a giveaway nickname. Then my tough, acerbic style and flawless rationality would have directed the gullible to the wrong chromosome; I'd put my shirt on it.
I mean, my blouse.

Fat Christy

A lot of posters think I'm male. No idea why.

SparkySpitfire

Candie wrote: »

/Smacks forehead!

Clever!

I didn't get it either

I always read Thalia as thah-lee-ah

Whoopsie

pharmaton

MOD None of that, please. Have a read of the charter.

Scarinae

I used to get mistaken for a guy a lot more when my username was Fishie. I suppose Scarinae sounds more feminine? Or maybe the lion avatar is more feminine than a Darkwing Duck avatar, who knows. It didn't bother me though.

The 'male as default' thing is fairly common. For example, books that centre around female characters or that are written by women are often seen as for females only, as if women are some sort of niche or special interest group rather than half the population.

JK Rowling, for instance, doesn't have a middle name - her name is just Joanne Rowling - but she put her name as JK on the first Harry Potter book because her publishers thought many boys wouldn't read a book that was obviously written by a woman (Interestingly, her other pen name is male - Robert Galbraith - although this might have been because she wanted to stay anonymous and using a male name was designed to throw people off the scent). The Disney film Tangled that came out a few years ago was originally called Rapunzel, but they changed the title and put more emphasis on the male character Flynn so that it wouldn't be seen as a movie for girls.

Dolbert

Every time I read the thread title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6g3chCCKRs

Zaph

I've never been mistaken for a woman on Boards, but the Irish Independent did once lift some stuff from the site for some article (can't remember what it was exactly), and they assumed I was female simply because I was modding this forum at the time.

Cold War Kid

Dolbert wrote: »

Every time I read the thread title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6g3chCCKRs

I most certainly do too.

Wobbly_Legs

I'm not sure whether people know I'm female on boards or not.. I'm only a newbie and like to keep my head down a lot!

But I'm joined to a separate motoring forum, where it clearly has the little female symbol under my avatar and the lads on that forum are constantly saying things to me like "you're a gentleman"...
"Thanks man" etc. etc.

:pac::pac: Oh Well..

pharmaton

pharmaton wrote: »

MOD None of that, please. Have a read of the charter.

Sorry, my woman brain got the better of me.

Maximus Alexander

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

With previous usernames (jingle balls, green_screen, Esoteric_, some others), many people assumed I was male.

:eek:

I recognise all three of these names as being people I have previously enjoyed the posts of. All the same person... and still here! The internet is dark and full of terrors.

Also, people always get my gender right somehow.

My mind is being blown in this thread. Tonnes of people that I've always thought were male!

Fat Christy

Deleted User wrote: »

My mind is being blown in this thread. Tonnes of people that I've always thought were male!

You're a woman too? :eek: Ah no, I knew you were a woman.