I've been mistaken for the opposite gender more than once, but I guess that's hardly surprising. (More often with my original name, tonguetied&twisted - but at least once more recently with this name.)
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To me, any name that looks Japanese and ends in "-ko" will always look like a girl's name. Not that there aren't other possible origins for a name like "Reiko". I guess Japanese is just my default setting. Posts: 1814 | Registered: Jul 2004
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I purposefully chose a name that would be unmistakably female. I guess having a complex all my life about not feeling "feminine enough" plays a part in that.
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You know, beverly, I thought that my name was pretty obviously masculine. This is not apparently always the case, as I had someone who I met at a PacNW meeting (I don't remember who) who claimed to have thought that I was a southern WOMAN (emphasis mine). So those tactics don't always work.
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When I created my SN, I forgot that there are some poor benighted souls out there who have no Latin.
"ea" and "quae" are both feminine pronouns. So the first few times anyone mistook me for a guy, I was very confused.
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My name is fairly gender-neutral, and I've been mistaken for a dudette on numerous occasions. Online, I mean. Posts: 1595 | Registered: Feb 2003
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Many people thought I was female when I started posting. They thought the name was ms quared. It is actually m squared, since my initials are MM, or M squared. Most people do not make that mistake now.
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I think lots of people who don't know I'm married to Jon Boy think I'm a guy. Now a lot of new people don't even know Jon Boy, so the problem is cropping up again. *sigh*
Oh, and those of you who don't know Jon Boy are missing out. Big time.
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quote:"ea" and "quae" are both feminine pronouns. So the first few times anyone mistook me for a guy, I was very confused.
Yeah, this is kinda the wrong century to just assume that the average person is going to speak Latin. These days people can't even write "i.e." or "e.g." without mixing them up. A thundering lot of people online abbreviate "et cetera" as "ect.", for heaven's sake. What the deuce do they imagine that stands for? And you expect them to know what "ea" and "quae" mean?
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I hear you, Verily. (or is it, Verily I hear you! )
People who say "Eck cetera" when speaking drive me insane, and I'm continually amazed at the number of people who do it.
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But, honestly, there should be an gender question in the profile. It would make things soooo easier. What do you think ?
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quote:Perhaps you should have chosen the name Mr. Mister? Or Mr. Masculine He-man Mister?
I would immediately suspect anyone named "Mr. Masculine He-man Mister" of being female. Or maybe male with a very small penis.
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I'm a guy. Always have been. The name is something I randomly pulled out the the Bible, and I really didn't even think about gender confusion when I registered it. So it's not really a name at all, but it sounds kinda like one for a female.
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Doubt it, Teshi. I rarely correct people on grammar/spelling/syntax/usage/etc, unless they specifically ask.
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Female here (don't much care about girl vs. woman). I guess the name is somewhat ambiguous, but referencing my husband a few times early in my so-far-very-brief posting career removed any doubt anyone might have had. I don't especially care about other posters' gender most of the time, unless it happens to be relevant to the topic under discussion.
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quote: Yeah, this is kinda the wrong century to just assume that the average person is going to speak Latin.
Thank you!
I know I'm not a genius, far from it, but I also know I'm not all that dumb...and that post made me feel rather stupid for being a "poor benighted soul" who has no Latin.
[/being too touchy]
And I'm a girl. Calling myself a woman just seems awkward and wrong.
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I meant it not to be mean... I was kind of mocking myself... At the time, it really and truly didn't occur to me that people might not get the gender references. And like Verily pointed out, it wasn't exactly a realistic assumption.
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I've been mistaken for a dude at times...I met someone in person and told them who I was and they said, "Gosh! I thought you were a guy!" I guess it's fun to surprise people...
But I guess I erroneously assumed that my nic had a feminine sound to it.
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I thought if your post is backed with yellow you are a guy and if it is backed with ecru you are a girl. Posts: 11017 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Narnia is a very feminine name. Countries and magical realms are usually characterized as feminine. The main character in Narnia books (the couple that I read anyway) is also a girl.
Of course, the fact that you're always so polite also gives it away.
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