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What Jelly genders have played mindgames with you?

Asked by janbb (63219points) April 18th, 2013

I have been surprised – more so in the past – to discover that Jellies I had assumed were boys were girls here and some that I assumed were girls weren’t. And all options in between. I think it’s fun to have my assumptions turned upside down and sometimes wonder what makes me assume a gender; is it the name? the avatar? or the tone of the answers?

In line with some other Meta questions asked today, I thought this would be fun.

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Judi's avatar

@Zen, (still not sure)
@tinyfaery, thought she was a gay guy for the first year,
@ragingloli, thought it said rangoli and that she was Russian or some other Slovic nation. Then I realized that she was from another planet and probably genderless.

KNOWITALL's avatar

I still have trouble remembering who’s a guy and who’s a girl, but it doesn’t matter in the exchange of information usually. Augustlan, ThornInMud, and a few others that don’t have gender specific profile pics I usually say him/ her or something if necessary.

janbb's avatar

@KNOWITALL I find it a lot of fun not knowing and challenging my assumptions.

@Judi I think my latest guess was that ragingloli is actually a guy, although I’m not sure.

In the past, I though dog was a guy for a long time and I initially thought glacial was a guy.

KNOWITALL's avatar

@janbb Ah, glacial was the other one, a woman huh? When I first started here, I thought about using a male persona or genderless pic, because people are sometimes more respectful to men online I’ve noticed, elsewhere. I wonder if some of these people have a reason?

janbb's avatar

@KNOWITALL Well, I’ve never looked at my penguin private parts so I might be a guy too!

ucme's avatar

None that spring to mind.
Just to clear up any potential confusion, i’m a little boy trapped in a man’s body who’s in touch with his feminine side.

Seek's avatar

I’m pretty sure I know most of you, not that it matters.

My money’s on Ragingloli as a member of the two X team.

The only one I can’t even guess on is Muppetish.

janbb's avatar

@Seek_Kolinahr I’ll bet with this avatar and name newbies would think you were a guy.

downtide's avatar

No-one who’s been around Fluther for long would ever be in doubt about my gender, I never shut up about it.

I did initially think that @Adirondackwannabe was a guy.

KNOWITALL's avatar

@downtide His profile says he’s male. He’s one of my favorite people either way. Missed you, glad you’re back!!

downtide's avatar

oh! I was right after all :)

Plucky's avatar

I thought Pandora was a guy for a long time…along with Ragingloli. I thought Willworkforchicolate was a woman until recently. I just found out Dog was not a male! Oh and bookish1, I always thought he was female until a month ago. There are many who I’m unsure of. It isn’t all that important to me though. The reasoning for the assumption is almost always their tone in their posts.

livelaughlove21's avatar

I’ve always thought @bkcunningham was a guy, but I read something recently that suggested otherwise. So, I’m still not sure there.

I also thought @WillWorkForChocolate and @bookish1 were females until recently.

I’ve had jellies call me “he,” which I find odd because I thought my username was pretty girly-sounding/looking, but I guess not.

There are plenty whose genders I’m not sure of, though.

marinelife's avatar

@Plucky WillWorkforchocolate is not a woman?????? For the longest time (until the Meet the Mods blog) I thought PiNotPhi was a woman. (Sorry PnP it was just because you’re so wise and sensitive.).

ucme's avatar

Wait, stop right fucking there!! If Abby ain’t no girl & I grew a semi when “she” let me grope her tits, then…oh shit!

Incoherency_'s avatar

I used to think that Brian1946 was male until that I found out that he/she/it is a hermaphrodite!

So now as far as I’m concerned, he/she/it can go f**k him/herself. ;-)

Brian1946's avatar

@Incoherency_

I’d have a real good cumback for your vicious lie if I wasn’t so busy cuddling with meself. ;-p

Sunny2's avatar

I’m often surprised to find some one I thought was male or female was the opposite. Why it should matter, I don’t know. I tend to have an impression of the jelly I’m talking to, even though I have nothing to go on. Makes no sense. I’ll have to think about that.

chyna's avatar

@willworkforchocolate is female.

KNOWITALL's avatar

@Sunny2 Same here, messes with your mental picture I guess.

ucme's avatar

I know she is, no one could own such world class breasts & not be all woman…hubba, hubba :-)

livelaughlove21's avatar

@chyna I stand corrected. I could’ve sworn I saw somewhere that she was a dude. My bad.

marinelife's avatar

Thank goodness about willworkforchocolate. It was if the magnetic poles had reversed themselves.

dxs's avatar

Alright who here thought I was a lady?

Bellatrix's avatar

I always imagine @ragingloli as a man. I thought @crumpet was a woman but no, she (sorry he) isn’t a tasty bit o’crumpet at all!

Plucky's avatar

Lol…omgoodness. Sorry, I meant I thought @willworkforchocolate was male. I messed up my sentence.

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

Whoa, whoa, WHOA!!!! People thought I was a female, and then changed their minds? And on the other hand, some people thought I was a male at first? What’d I do? I gots tatas and talk about having babies, and stuff! @ucme You can relax, man, you weren’t groping a dood that one night; I’m 100% female!

I used to think @ragingloli was a girl, and that Dog was a guy.

Bellatrix's avatar

^^ Dude! It might be the shovel that’s throwing people off.

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

I feel the need to temporarily resurrect an old avatar.

fundevogel's avatar

Forever and ever I thought Raginloli was a a girl then I started noticing people referring to them as a dude and I realized I had no idea why I though Ragingloli was a girl…but I didn’t know that the other person had any reason to think Ragingloli was a dude so I just said to hell with it all cause it doesn’t matter anyway.

janbb's avatar

I thhought @fundevogel was a guy; think it was the handlebars that threw me off.

fundevogel's avatar

That’s me. Re-gendering the mustache. You know I’ll glue one on if we ever have a meet up.

bookish1's avatar

I’m kind of glad a certain departed jelly isn’t here to read this question… or he would probably have taken the opportunity to point out yet again how confusing my gender is to him.

muppetish's avatar

No jellies have played mindgames with me regarding gender. The Internet is the one place where I feel free from gender assignation and that makes me quite happy. It would be silly of me, then, to pay too much attention to the gender assignation of the people that I interact with.

I have had jellies assign pronouns to me in posts before and I sometimes wonder what it is that leads them to their selections. I guess most people feel comfortable if they have a point of reference.

ucme's avatar

If ragingloli is not a girl then it wishes it was, be the nearest to a girl it’d ever get.

ucme's avatar

@WillWorkForChocolate I’m still in shock that anyone could possibly think any different, I mean…just look atcha girlfriend ;-}

janbb's avatar

@muppetish What I find interesting about the issue is that I tend to do it on an unconscious level and then when I find things are different from what I imagined, it challenges my notions of gender. I guess a more evolved state is not to make those assumptions at all.

Seek's avatar

@muppetish I don’t even bother making assumptions with you, darling. I love you just the way you all, all Fraggle-y.

CWOTUS's avatar

Simone_De_Beauvoir. Because s/he that person won’t be pinned down or categorized by gender. And that’s okay. I like h that person, even though we seldom agree on much of anything.

keobooks's avatar

I pretty much guess everyones gender wrong, so I never bother. Except if your name has LADY or MAN in the name, I’ve probably gotten your gender wrong too.

glacial's avatar

@Bellatrix Actually, it was the shovel that convinced me that @WillWorkForChocolate is female. :)

KNOWITALL's avatar

@bookish1 I’m sorry anyone feels the need to be nasty about gender id issues or anything else that personal. :(

Reminds me of having some pre-cancer cells removed making it difficult to carry a child until I was about 28 yrs old, and people going on and on about why I didn’t have kids.

mangeons's avatar

I didn’t think I was wrong about anyone at the moment, but I’ve just found out that @glacial is not a guy…. so I guess I was wrong about her! Sorry @glacial!

I also did always think @fundevogel was a guy in the past, until her 10k party!

augustlan's avatar

@glacial, @fundevogel, Dog, and bkcunningham were all male in my mind, til I found out otherwise somewhere along the way. I used to be confused by ragingloli, but now I’m 99% sure he is a male alien. I get mistaken for a male fairly often, but it used to happen all the time when I first joined and had a sterner looking “A” for my avatar.

bookish1's avatar

@KNOWITALL : Thanks. No one here was ever nasty, but this one guy was flippant about it in a way that enabled him to backpedal and play the “I’m just kidding—where’s your sense of humor?” trick whenever he wanted. I didn’t particularly enjoy that.

@augustlan: I have never been able to figure out @ragingloli’s gender, which makes me feel better when people can’t determine mine online. But I suspect they might be Cat.

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

I’m a My Little Pony/cat hybrid. It certainly keeps things interesting, especially using the litter box…

Incoherency_'s avatar

<——- I seriously doubt that anyone will have any trouble recognizing my gender(s?). ;-)

Woo hoo- today is Androgyny Day!

Brian1946's avatar

@Incoherency_

Woo hoo- today is Androgyny Day!

I got a real good idea of how you can celebrate. ;-)

janbb's avatar

I’m going to pee standing up all day!

Plucky's avatar

@janbb Let us know how that goes….

DigitalBlue's avatar

Well, after this thread, I have no idea if @ragingloli is male or female. I know that there have been a few jellies that threw me for a loop, but I can’t remember now who they are/were.

A lot of people think that I’m a guy since I’ve been using this account.

lillycoyote's avatar

I think I mentioned this before, and Dog is gone now, I guess, and newer people might not know of Dog, but when she became a mod and they did a profile of her… wow! I had always thought the Dog was, like a guy, in his late 20’s and it turned out that Dog was a mother of four, in her late 30’s. That was a big surprise to me, really, it was. I know there have been other mix ups but off the top of my head that’s what I’ve got. I will have to think about it.

lillycoyote's avatar

And, for the longest time, I thought @ragingloli was a 13 year old boy or something like that. I’m still not sure what @ragingloli is all about. @ragingloli is what @ragingloli is, and lives in Germany, I’m pretty sure, or maybe not, I don’t know. ;-)

janbb's avatar

@lillycoyote I love it when you visit here.

wilma's avatar

Until now I thought that @glacial was a guy.
I have no clue about @bookish1 and if @WillWorkForChocolate is a guy then so am I.

augustlan's avatar

I’ve recently learned that Inspired_2write is female, which surprised me.

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

@wilma Dude, you’re hot! Can I bite your biceps?

Brian1946's avatar

@wilma & @WillWorkForChocolate

if @WillWorkForChocolate is a guy then so am I.

Good to see that you’ve both come out of the closet! ;-)

As an asexual hermaphrodite, I can appreciate the courage that it took. ;-o

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

But I’ve already explained what I am!

jordym84's avatar

I always thought @WillWorkForChocolate was a guy, until a week or so ago. I also thought @glacial and @DigitalBlue were dudes…don’t ask me why, I have no idea. I think @ucme is male, but I’m not sure especially since, at times, I get him/her/it mixed up with @ragingloli sorry, @ucme. Oh, and another one I got wrong: @janbb.

Btw, what and where is @ragingloli??

jordym84's avatar

And hold up, @fundevogel is not a sir? Clearly there’s something wrong with me, I’ve gotten most of the female jellies wrong.~

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livelaughlove21's avatar

@jordym84 The sheer number of cock references @ucme makes and you weren’t sure of his gender? Ha! He’s one of the few I’ve never had doubts about.

ucme's avatar

Cock references? Sounds like a job interview for Foghorn Leghorn.

CWOTUS's avatar

I would imagine that we’ll all be floored someday when it comes to light that ragingloli is a corporation. An American corporation.

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WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

For everyone who remains confused, @ragingloli is actually an androgynous T-Rex, who’s constantly PMSing.

ucme's avatar

Thinking again, there was one user when I first started here who confused me, can’t remember their name but they’re no longer here. Probably manipulated the doubt as to their gender anyway, whatever keeps these folks happy I suppose.

rooeytoo's avatar

@CWOTUS – I would be floored by her being an American corp, that’s for sure!

Blackberry's avatar

Yeah, but I never bothered to ask. I’m still not sure what Tinyfaery is.

janbb's avatar

@tinyfaery is sui generis.

marinelife's avatar

@janbb Points for sui generis.

janbb's avatar

@marinelife Alas but you’re maxed out on me.

Arewethereyet's avatar

@ragingloli has to be a guy doesn’t he???????
Also you had me going for a while with the talk of willworkforcchoccies being a bloke – always knew she was a gal from her input

Crumpet's avatar

I’m a bloke.
Been mistaken for a woman though.

fundevogel's avatar

Any confusion regarding my gender is completely undertandable totally harmless.

janbb's avatar

@fundevogel But I still want to know if you are animal, vegetable or mineral.

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