When I first joined on gog, I really didn't care if people thought I was a boy. Hell, my name isn't feminine and I had a banksy pic and later one of trent reznor as my avatar. Then ddickinson had her "girls GA" and talk got going about girls in gaming and how we are underrepresented and thought of as "casual".

I started thinking, was my not correcting people who called me "him" adding to this? Would a guy have corrected someone if they said he was a girl? I watched posts and found that guys did correct. I then began correcting people and even changed my tag under my avatar to "miss not sir".

I feel like I'm being a bitch when I do it because it's something I really never cared about, but at the same time, I feel like by NOT correcting, I'm adding to the "there are no female gamers" nonsense. Well, as in no female gamers that aren't casual.

So, is it better to correct or just say f- it and let people call you whatever they want? Guys, if people were calling you a girl (in a not mean way), would you correct them? Have you corrected them?

It's hit and miss for me. Sometimes I correct and sometimes I don't. Depends on my mood at the time, I guess. But if I do correct people I always do so politely or in a humorous way. As you can infer from the above, yes, sometimes.

I think it's different for men though since, as you noted, there is a far different perception of female gamers than male. Ultimately I guess it comes down to whether or not it makes a difference to you. Personally I don't mind being corrected if I use the wrong gender reference. Actually, I prefer it.

Thanks for answering! Good to know that you don't mind if someone corrects you. I always feel like I'm being annoying if I do do it. And I guess that is one of my problems, since I've only just really started thinking about it or caring, I'm not sure if it makes a difference. Or maybe I want it to, but deep down I just don't care.

hahaha, do do it. Maybe I am an adolescent boy and just haven't realized it yet.... ;)

lol

I don't really think of people on forums as male/female, if I am unsure I usually say "they" or "you" if I am speaking about them or addressing them directly, respectively.

If I did in error refer to someone in the wrong gender, I would be delighted to be corrected, bad enough getting something wrong once without getting something wrong constantly, so yeah correct me please.

Dunno why anyone would care if you are male or female on a forum cos either way, nobody will ever know for sure.

I don't mind being corrected, honestly I find it positive if someone corrects me.

As for the different perception of female and male gamers, it's all in our heads and is something we will overcome only with time (as most things).
I have played quite a lot with other online female players and honestly if you enjoy the game as much as I do, then where is that "difference" everybody seem to mention? There is none, we are all enjoying it and that is what should be important.

In the end it's your choice if you want to correct others, do what you feel is the right thing to do.

I get mistaken for a girl occasionally and usually correct them, but mainly because like Coelocanth said I prefer to be corrected myself..

I don't really mind too much and if I correct it is always done jokingly.

Internet people are genderless in my eyes:D

All this talk of wrong genders is making me listen to Goodbye Horses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64DsZSrCmok

I personally think that the question of sex should be rather irrelevant where it doesn't concern clear-cut differences between females and males (anatomical for example). That is, I don't think my gender is important or has anything to do with my life or my hobbies or anything similar, but only affects me regarding my anatomy and such stuff. Since videogaming is a hobby, the gender thing should remain largely irrelevant. For one reason or another, it isn't in general, but in this forum, outside of giveaways for females or dicussions about feminism, the gender little matters. And that's good imo.
At any rate, to the question now. Even though the avatars I use tend to be something a girl/woman would choose (I like cute pirates/vampires!), most of the time when I gave something over at open this thread I'd receive some thanks via pm that were like "thanks man" or "thank you sir" or something similiar (the rest of such messages were gender neutral-aka just saying "thank you" or anything similar). I didn't correct them, largely because it was irrelevant and also, why should I correct them? Who cares if I'm a male or a female really? Does it matter? All that matters is that all of us like videogames!
And not only that, but also I feel somewhat flattered, in the sense that "Well, my sex isn't evident-to the point of someone getting it wrong! And that's how it should be!"-why not let them think I'm a male? Since one can't see people behind the screen (how they look like etc) he can't really make an assumption based on anything else than the avatar-which means that one can form the way he's being portrayed by others just by picking an avatar. I personally pick avatars that I like, but more precisely avatars that I feel portray well my inner self. What works for me is the cute pirate-girl/vampire, but other things work this way for other people.
In short (as I wrote a whole thesis answering a simple question), I don't correct people if they get my gender wrong because I don't think gender should matter. You, however, are an entirely different person and thus, you should do whatever you feel like doing regarding this aspect-be it correcting people or not-whatever you feel like doing. After all, why should women reveal themselves just to prove non-casual gamers exist? Aren't there enough surveys proving that? But I guess that's stereotyping for you-and you shouldn't give so much attention to what you're called, if it doesn't seriously bother you.

P.S. After refreshing and seeing the answers added while I was writing mine-I agree with what saith32 just said. :-)

Walmart did NOT like it when I circled their parking lot in my van playing that lol

I find it amusing and don't bother correcting them.

lol. oh jason mewes....

I'm the exact opposite. I like to know who is who, after all we are all friends here! :-)