Guessing people's gender (wrong) in forums...based on their avatar

Due to the anonymous nature of a forum such as this (people have avatars and use nicknames) , it's not easy to get the gender of other members right...I decided to use the avatar as a clue and assumed that all people with a female character avatar were girls...

It works in some cases (for example: Aurora Whright), but not always...

P.S: is Rinnegatamante male or female? because they have a girl character avatar so I assumed female but I tend to be wrong about that...
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astrangeone
How does an avatar help with gendering a forum user? I can have an avatar of a Tetris block or another object that doesn't have a gender...what then?

Also, I have Slenderman as my avatar...what gender do you assume I am from that?
 
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T
Well uh, let me teach ya a trick. So you see our profile picture? Well instead of looking at it CLICK on it. A little menu will come up and it'll include their gender.

Life hack.
 
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osaka35
I don't really care what people perceive me as. If they treat me differently because they think I'm a girl, a guy, or other, then that's a them problem. My gender is about zero percent of my personal identity.
 
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Amapola62
lol I can't make guesses if people have neutral sounding nicknames and neutral avatars...i would just call them he until proven otherwise...XD

At least if you had a female sounding name...
 
migles
there is a simple fix. assume everyone is a bowl of cereal.
or when in doubt, you can pretty easily click on their name, a pop up will show up telling their choosen gender
keep in mind loads of guys are girls, and loads of females are boys

anyway, you are in a forum, wtf you care about a identity's gender, it's not like you gonna see that person naked or going to sex chat with them
 
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T
@mgrev Yeah fair enough I was gonna mention that, but for many people it's scarce
 

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