Well, I'm confused but curious about why someone would

a) want to masquerade as another gender on the Internet and

b) Make a conspicuous assertion of their gender in their title by choosing a female name when everyone else here chooses gender neutral aliases.

Bert

PS. my real name is Paul (not Bert)

OK, that is easy enough to answer.

My original name here was shadowhacker, but to many people kept thinking I was a boy, and it got annoying. To add on top of it, many would be totally surprised that a girl is a Linux forum when they found out. So I decided that a more female name would help reduce that problem.

I had a few other possible names, but they were decidedly female. I was going to use my email alias, but by the time I actually thought about it, I already created a new LQ account.

Hope that answers your question.

As to your comment about why someone would want to act like another gender on the web... I suppose to play. I have a couple of friends that do that, but I dont. I dont really understand why.. just be yourself.

Isajera wrote:
Sorry. She who sleeps often loses out to others who are awake

Trickykid wrote:
Aw! Now I feel special. You are jsut so sweet

Tundra wrote:
Dont give up! You just have to do more to impress me is all

Bert wrote:
I am working on it. I have to do a webpage, but I am currently studing for some exams and with work being a little busy, webpages are simply not a priority.

Hmm.

Well like I said you promised a picture before but it never transpired ...

So you didn't change your name because everyone called you "Whacker" then ?

Paul

no.. i hink I was the only one that called her that

bluecadet, Thymox and well .. err ... me.

But yep it was definitely your idea

Back to Bert

Boy, you are impatient arent you? What... are you waiting to hit on me until you knwo wht i look like or something?

I will get a photo up sometime. I dont own a difital camera nor scanner, so it makes it a little harder to simply take a picture and upload you know.

And MAYBE being called Whacker also had something to do with the name change.

I never said anything about hitting on you

Bert

errr... Bert is hardly gender neutral?
steph: ah now. that's rich, that is.

Miss Tundra, I presume ?!

That would be kinda wierd... never have I been picked up on by a girl before.

Bert seems bored !

I'm at work, of course I'm bored.

Bert

I totally understand.

I'd just like to point out that I've never hit on anyone here, and uh... er... uh... yeah, shocker my name isn't Finegan, although I did call Steph, Whacker, in quite a few posts. I picked it up off of Kewpie because I thought it was funny. Odd, if you think about it even our handles have nicks, eh Taz, Kewp, Steph, Isa, Tricky, Neo, Thym, Jer?

Cheers,

Fin

P.S. Steph, you've got envelopes, stamps, between the rolling geek squad you could pick a half a dozen scanners, and I promise I'll restrain Taz from Gimp'in an extra set of ears onto you.