A posters sex? (page 2)

flipper

Hello Mr. Flipper here. Our avatar is pink, because my wife originally joined the board in March . However I do most of the posting on here. so it confuses people sometimes . Sorry you can't tell from just looking at the dolphin picture ! I don't think their " you know whats " pop out too much . I've never really studied it in Dolphins. Thank god ! Peace out, Mr. Flipper

oompa

I think it should be a rule here that your avatar must be your sex and that he look as sexy as you are....like mine! But if you do get someones sex wrong it is no big deal................... you are just gay!!!.....oompa

changeling

I no longer have ovaries but I am all woman!!!!!

changeling

BIG D

single and mingling!

big d

Barbie Doll

I no longer have ovaries but I am all woman!!!!!

I don't think you can go by there post or there writhing, To know there sex.

OWENFIELDRE ARMS----- I think you are a Male. But are you going to tell me. lol lol

AudeSapere

most of us have gender signage which will help.

Can't always trust that signage, though, either.

-Aude.

stillajwexelder

I swear to you I am male -or I was when I checked this morning - but I do have a very cute female as my avatar

darkuncle29

I see where you are coming from now, in your language there are gender indicators. Sure, we have pronouns in english, but in German and I think even in Swedish, the gender of the subject modifies the noun or verb or both. Describing how language works confuses me. Where's Leolaia? I think she could explain this better. From what little I know of written chinese, there are no pronouns that denote gender, so how you tell if you're writing about a female or male I haven't a clue.

FlyingHighNow

Gender is not hard to tell after you read enough of someone's posts, but race is. I have often been surprised to learn a poster is black or hispanic. I had a friend from Women Awake for a long time and did not know she was black until she sent me a pic of her with her fiance.

Yeah, Stilla, she is cute. Rachel Ray.

Leolaia

"As noted by McConnel-Ginet (1988), Ochs (1992), Zwicky (1997) and others, linguistic differences that are determined by the gender of the speaker are relatively rare. Nonetheless, linguistic practices may be indexically related to the gender of the speaker (Ochs 1992) and engaging in particular linguistic practices often helps to gender while simultaneously reflecting gender (Cameron 1997a; Gal 1996). It is the indexical nature of language that binds language directly to its context and permits particular linguistic forms or linguistic usages to function differently across contexts (Cameron 1997a; Tannen 1993)."

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rqueen/PROFESSIONAL/abstracts/BWLGpaper.htm

In other words, linguistic style may indirectly index a person's gender, such as a woman using a particular variable (such as the way a consonant is pronounced, or pitch, or certain hedge markers, or phraseology) more often than a man would to accomplish certain conversational pragmatic goals but which indirectly constructs her gender because of the probabilistic nature of the variable. So when a Japanese woman uses a lot of deference markers, she is not necessarily trying to sound like a submissive woman -- she may only be concerned with expressing herself in a way that gets her message understood or have the kind of impact she wants -- but the particular style is one that is more often ideologically associated with women than with men. Here in this forum, no one is similarly talking in a way to broadcast their gender to others; it's just not what is on people's minds. We're all here to talk about the things we're interested in. Now, are there cues that may probabilistically associate the way you write with a socially legible gender? I think it's quite possible overall but still doubtful; in a written medium like this, all sorts of cues that exist in spoken speech are altogether missing. The overlap between how most women and men write is just too great. There may be some rough correlation between topics and gender (e.g. women may be more likely to talk about some topics, and men about others), but while there may be some general pattern, it is quite unreliable when it comes down to the individual. I think it would take reading a person's writing over a period of time to get some intuitive and subjective sense of a person's gender, and even then a person could be wrong. All of this, of course, does not concern those who have already truthfully communicated their gender via nickname, avatar, gender symbol, etc.

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