Quote: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.

 

The "Fridge" nickname was based on him being as big as a refrigerator, not really because he over ate. That's how he got his nickname.

 

If all he did was over eat, they probably would have called him something else.

 

Bortles Kombat is really based on his name more then anything else, same with Jake the Snake.

 

So nicknames can come from many different things, and as we all know, sometimes they can even be negative.

 

Sometimes all you can do is embrace your nickname, but if you really hate it, you just need to learn to ignore it and just not answer or respond to it.

 

Very few get to pick their own nicknames in life or on message boards.

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