Female, only because a woman would be more likely to create a thread of this nature IMO.
Why would you think so? Would men be less interested in how gender comes across (or doesn't) in writing, applied to themselves or more generally? Several people have made this suggestion, which I find curious. I know far more men than women who would be disturbed at being mistaken for the opposite gender.
And would those men start a thread about it and let it get 50 posts long without even revealing their gender? Or would they just clear things up?
I'm guessing you're a female, based on the starting of this thread and the way you've responded within it.
I did read this post:
What reason?
I did consider that just asking these questions might bias the results, but it seemed the most straightforward way to start the topic. I am more interested in general about how our writing reflects gender, assuming we are being ourselves and not making any deliberate attempt to appear one way or the other. People can use my writing as an example, or other people's, or just comment more generally.
I believe what you're saying, but I'm guessing that having your gender mistaken in the past is what sparked this interest. Anyhow, it's impossible to tell if you're worried about it and trying to seem impartial about personal impact it's had on you, or if confident in yourself and just genuinely curious about it. I could make up 5 theories to support a guess for either gender because there's too much I don't know.
It's hard to imagine myself starting a thread like this because I've never been ambiguous. Perhaps the only reason I'm not mistaken for a female is that everybody has heard my voice, seen my pictures, looked at my profile, and seen my username. I couldn't stand being ambiguous. Not because I'd worry about being mistaken for a female, but because I'd feel like an impostor. I'm not just a brain writing on a computer. I'm a person. You get the whole thing,
warts penis and all.
I've heard people talk about how they don't want to be judged for the details, like their age or gender. "Why not just take my words for what they are?" They want people to be impartial about the details and to only consider their words, but I think those people are the least impartial about their own details because they think they are important enough to omit for some reason.
Are you ambiguous on purpose was it just a coincidence?
If you hadn't asked, I wouldn't have guessed. I
like to know a posters gender, but it's okay if I don't. If I like what they say, I like what they say, regardless of whether they're a man, woman, robot, or extra terrestrial. My life goes on.
If I'm interested in a person and I talk to them enough on here, I''ll probably ask them if I'm not sure, otherwise, it doesn't matter that much.