Gender Anonymity .

[modeller]

I know this isn't News as such but I have just read this in CB and being as it applies to a number of us I thought I would sound out the News' ABers. I'm sorry if it's been raised before but I haven't seen it. The CB question is :
//How well do we know each other???//
Why do some ABers hide their gender ? They don't declare it in their profile or actually lie and their Avatar implies a totally different gender. I understand the value of some anonymity it allows us to express views which we may not want our neighbours or colleagues to know about . It also allows us to be devils advocate at times, but why hide or imply a totally different gender.
It makes it difficult at times to answer some questions as without knowing the gender they don't make sense or put it another way they would make more sense if you knew the gender.

[jno]

<bass voice with tone of effortless superiority> quite right, ludwig

[ludwig]

// Do you wear wigs, Ludwig? :-) //

Sorry, just realised you asked me a question Society. The answer is no, it's all my own hair, but I have had a bit of botox done.
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