Quote:Being called Jdub does not change your username, if the woman part is special to you...it's still there. There is only a handful of posters that call you Jdub any way, and they all know you're a female. And as far as being called sir...I've got a blonde bunny as an avatar and my user name is bchbunnie and I still get called a guy by posters that don't have a clue.

 

Really, I thought everybody knew you are female. Although everybody knows I am a woman now, the newbies we get every year wouldn't without the word woman in my username. When someone called me sir, my real name was in my signature. That is why I thought without the word woman, lady, or girl in my username, there will always be posters who think I am male. The "dub" does not mean female. It really does not mean anything. So to me it loses the part of my username that was the basis of creating it and, therefore, a loss of my identity. A nickname is supposed to be based on who you are, not take your identity away.

 

Think about the nicknames some NFL guys have or had. Jake the Snake, Cadillac, Slash, Pinball, Superman, Banger, A-Train, Babin the Barber, Colt KIller, Mean Joe Greene, Johnny Football, and maybe Bortles Kombat were all based on what players did during games. The Refrigerator was based on the player overeating throughout his career. Jdub has the opposite effect by removing the word woman.

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