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Laddy
07-26-2013, 07:41 AM
Are you often mistaken for being another gender than your own online?

I get it all the time. Playing chicks in games doesn't help either.

Psychotic
07-26-2013, 08:03 AM
One time I made a second account at EoFF called Iri Valentine and posted photos of myself dressed up as a girl. I got a lot of positive comments let me tell you.

Chris
07-26-2013, 08:26 AM
Don't be a drag, just be a queen. My motto, so yes.

Shauna
07-26-2013, 09:36 AM
Dunno. I don't imagine people think I'm male. But then, I could be completely wrong.

Loony BoB
07-26-2013, 09:38 AM
Doesn't happen to me, really. Having the real name Daniel and the online name BoB kind of gives away my gender pretty easily.

Jowy
07-26-2013, 10:01 AM
I can't say that's ever happened to me.

Pike
07-26-2013, 10:12 AM
Yes, most newbies here assume by default that I am male, and some returning old-timers do as well. Happens a lot in MMOs as well because I prefer to play male characters.

I don't mind! :)

NeoCracker
07-26-2013, 10:15 AM
I actually always assumed you were a girl by default, not really sure why. :p

And yeah, normally when you get as creepy as me, people default to assume male. Apperently woman online aren't creepers or something. :p

Mirage
07-26-2013, 10:28 AM
I do this on purpose.

Jinx
07-26-2013, 12:08 PM
Yeah, I knew Pike was a girl too! When I joined she had a Twilight Sparkle set. I know that doesn't mean anything, but if you have MLP anything, I assume you are a woman.

Also, in response to OP:

Look at my username. People think I'm a dude aaaaall the time.

Faris
07-26-2013, 01:13 PM
How many of you still think I'm Faris_the_guy in disguise?

Denmark
07-26-2013, 01:35 PM
DENMARK'S A DUDE?

Pretty sure that was the only time anyone had been confused about my online gender. I'm normally pretty male, or at least should be considered "male until proven female" like most of the internet.

Pumpkin
07-26-2013, 01:44 PM
I get mistaken for a guy sometimes :(.

Agent Proto
07-26-2013, 01:53 PM
I don't get mistaken for a girl, considering the username I use doesn't exactly shouts "Hey, I must be female!" Once, I used a Hatsune Miku avatar, and someone mistook me as being female! He even referred to me as "the lovely Miss Proto."

Slothy
07-26-2013, 01:57 PM
I get it sometimes since not everyone realizes I took the name Vivi from FFIX, or that Vivi was a dude. Doesn't happen that often, but I find it humorous when it does.

Pumpkin
07-26-2013, 02:03 PM
not everyone realizes I took the name Vivi from FFIX

>Final Fantasy Forum
>One of the most popular characters of the series

Wat

Slothy
07-26-2013, 02:05 PM
It happens more often outside of EoFF to be honest. I've been using the same name for a long time in a lot of places (probably around 14 years or so now).

Pumpkin
07-26-2013, 02:05 PM
That would make more sense then :P

The Summoner of Leviathan
07-26-2013, 03:01 PM
When I first joined, a lot of people thought I was a chick.

Jiro
07-26-2013, 03:05 PM
I get mistaken for a lot of things, but never for a woman.

Bunny
07-26-2013, 04:12 PM
Sometimes I get mistaken for a girl. Most of the time people just assume I'm an asshole.

Calliope
07-26-2013, 04:31 PM
Yes; it doesn't bother me.

Raistlin
07-26-2013, 04:46 PM
I don't remember ever being mistaken for a girl online before. I'm usually pretty good about guessing other people's gender, too.

Formalhaut
07-26-2013, 04:51 PM
I don't actually imagine this has ever happened to me. :p

Rebellious Eagle
07-26-2013, 05:22 PM
Sometimes I get the occasional "he" or disbelief when I say I'm female because "there are no girls on the Internet!!!!1"

Shorty
07-26-2013, 05:44 PM
A foreign newbie in chat thought I was a dude once. And I got mistaken for a dude a lot when I was still Demosthenes. Not anymore!

Unbreakable Will
07-26-2013, 05:44 PM
I don't think it's ever happened to me. Unless one of you bastards mistook me for a woman when I joined. :shifty:

Rantz
07-26-2013, 06:00 PM
I've been mistaken for a girl, but only a few times.

Mirage
07-26-2013, 07:29 PM
When I first joined, a lot of people thought I was a chick.

You're still a chick to me.

Shiny
07-26-2013, 09:19 PM
There was a year when a lot of you thought I was a dude.

41-Inches-Wide
07-26-2013, 10:57 PM
My name is indefinite.

noxious.sunshine
07-26-2013, 11:40 PM
I've never been mistaken for a dude... That I know of. Unless it happened back when I used "kyo" as my username somewhere else, but I don't recall that happening.

Pike
07-26-2013, 11:47 PM
Hey remember back when everyone thought Phil was a girl and it was so bad that he had to change his username?

That was funny.

Shorty
07-26-2013, 11:49 PM
Didn't help that he had Carina Round as his signature. And not only that, he specifically had to include "boy" in his username when he changed it!

Shauna
07-27-2013, 12:39 AM
I don't think I was ever under the impression that eternal essence was a girl. xD

Shorty
07-27-2013, 12:41 AM
I dunno, man. Your name is awfully masculine.

Mirage
07-27-2013, 01:12 AM
Oh yeah, I always thought eternal essence was a girl too.

NorthernChaosGod
07-27-2013, 01:14 AM
I don't think I've ever been mistaken for a girl before. I do usually assume a person is a man until proven otherwise too.

fire_of_avalon
07-27-2013, 01:36 AM
So much so that I used it as the basis for my Lego Ed from Cowboy Bebop avatar. Much less now that we have pictures in our profiles. And now that I'm old.

escobert
07-27-2013, 02:28 AM
Not that I know of.

The Summoner of Leviathan
07-27-2013, 06:23 AM
When I first joined, a lot of people thought I was a chick.

You're still a chick to me.

:colbert:

Spooniest
07-27-2013, 06:39 AM
This has never once been an issue for me. I'd guess that it's because my screen name is a reference to a (albeit rather effete) well known male character.

That being said. I devote little to no thought to the gender of the poster when I read forums, simply because I don't see why it should make one whit of difference.

Jiro
07-27-2013, 10:46 AM
I think actually paying attention to a person's posts might help clear things up for you. Not always, but sometimes.

Say, for instance, eternal essence: how many chicks sign off posts with "Peace out and :rock:"? I mean, really?

Old Manus
07-27-2013, 11:25 AM
I often get mistaken for a man.

Cuchulainn
07-27-2013, 11:30 AM
Never been mistaken for anything other than a bloke but when I first joined here, for about a year or so, I thought Wesley was a man.

noxious.sunshine
07-27-2013, 12:01 PM
This has never once been an issue for me. I'd guess that it's because my screen name is a reference to a (albeit rather effete) well known male character.

That being said. I devote little to no thought to the gender of the poster when I read forums, simply because I don't see why it should make one whit of difference.

*snorts* it does when they post about modeling and then you say something about chicks and stuff.

But then again I also didn't look to see who actually posted. I was in a hurry. Sorry Laddy! ^_^

The Man
07-27-2013, 05:54 PM
Doesn't happen here, for presumably obvious reasons, but I have been confused for a woman at various other places. Doesn't really bother me anymore.

Yerushalmi
07-28-2013, 07:31 AM
For some odd reason, customer service people sometimes think I'm female over the phone. I don't have anything close to a female voice! I've never been mistaken for a girl in person or over the Internet, though.

Tigmafuzz
07-28-2013, 07:50 AM
I don't think I've ever been mistaken for a woman on the internet before. Although my old roommate made an account here once and she got banned because I guess somebody thought she was a second account :p

I was, however, once mistaken for a woman in real life. Me and Sa­rah's closest group of friends has a thing called dress-up night, where we all crossdress before going out to have fun. One particularly drunk night, we decided to make ourselves look as convincing as possible, with makeup and wigs and everything. Apparently we succeeded, because on our way out of the bar & grill we were at, a guy stopped me and asked for my number. I don't know if he actually thought I was a woman or if he thought I was transgendered or something, but I gave him the White House phone number :bigsmile:


He even referred to me as "the lovely Miss Proto."

Sounds like a term of endearment, to me. I'm going to start calling you that from now on.

Agent Proto
07-28-2013, 04:16 PM
:mad2:

Jiro
07-28-2013, 05:15 PM
It makes me think of "Miss Cloud" which kind of creeps me out a little, so I won't be calling you that :monster:

Sephex
07-28-2013, 07:23 PM
I have never been mistaken for a girl as far as I know. Despite the somewhat unique nature of my screen name, I don't think it would really suit a female.

Spooniest
07-29-2013, 07:03 AM
A foreign newbie in chat thought I was a dude once. And I got mistaken for a dude a lot when I was still Demosthenes. Not anymore!

Are you the one posting at Jammer's Reviews' Star Trek Into Darkness comments section??

Shorty
07-29-2013, 07:04 AM
Haha, no, I can't say that I am. I stopped using Demosthenes a long time ago, but in the last few years I started creating profiles for other sites here and there as demosthynes instead (the properly spelled name was already taken and I continued with the y for the sake of consistency).

Mahad
07-29-2013, 08:47 AM
I have never been confused. Not that I know, that is.

I do, however, often make this mistake. I still associate a member's avi with their gender at times, that leads to some confusion. If the person doesn't specify gender, I'm really at a loss unless I've seen that person around forever.

I thought laddy was a girl and shion was a guy, just to mention this place.

Pike
07-29-2013, 10:18 AM
Before I joined this forum I was really active on another Final Fantasy forum for about two years. They always called me he/him and I decided not to correct them cause why not.

They never figured it out.

Sefie1999AD
07-29-2013, 02:28 PM
Doesn't happen here, for presumably obvious reasons, but I have been confused for a woman at various other places. Doesn't really bother me anymore.

Wow, I never thought The Man could be male. :roll2

I don't think I've ever been mistaken, as my nick and avatar are pretty much a giveaway. :p

Shaibana
07-29-2013, 02:47 PM
i guess in this topic every girl wil say 'Yes' ans evey boy 'no' :P
i am most of the time being mistaken for a boy, eben though i use the name Shaibana, wich seems quit feminine to me
that counts for the online game(s)

Spooniest
07-29-2013, 10:30 PM
Reminds me of

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Dat Matt
07-30-2013, 07:11 PM
Definitely female here.

Mirage
07-30-2013, 07:36 PM
Reminds me of

JYkxCzBszOQ

That was so awesome

Hollycat
07-30-2013, 07:48 PM
I don't think anyone could confuse me for a girl online. I'm not macho or anything, but my tone doesn't exactly lean to the feminine.

Until a few years ago though, I got confused for a girl all the time in real life due to my (used to be) tiny stature and long hair.