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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!

It has happened before to me, which is why I posted a pic on my homepage. Maybe I should put something in my tagline? But putting, “I am a lady”, sounds stupid....LOL!! (Maybe “female poster?) I wish we could change handles, but I understand the reasoning of why we can’t.