[yellowdoghunter]

Right after I posted that I realized you probably thought I was a male. My handle is from an old political joke. I know you would not have used that language if you had known I was a lady.

I will leave the issue of Missouri and Nevada alone as we will not agree but please know that we are on the same side at the end of the day.

[fr_freak]

Right after I posted that I realized you probably thought I was a male. My handle is from an old political joke. I know you would not have used that language if you had known I was a lady.

Yes, this can be a problem. I think most guys here are like me - if the screenname doesn't indicate that the poster is a woman (worse yet, some names seem explicitly male but are used by women) then I fall into the assumption that the poster is male and I treat them that way, especially if that poster just insulted/chided/sneered at me. I speak differently to women than men in those situations, but when I get them confused... I actually had the unpleasant experience once where, after having gotten into a heated discussion with another Freeper, I checked that Freeper's homepage and damn near choked when I realized I had just told a 70-something year old woman to stfu. D'oh!