Thread: !!Everybody *has* to answer this one!!

I see no need to, really. Deal with it instead.

If someone feels like they need to correct you, they will. Sure nobody will be offended because someone confused their gender. Move on...

Manly man. Arrrrrgh. (just in case "Todd" wasn't clear enough.)

I think I know where you are going with this, and I'm pretty sure Elysia is female!!

Sometime ago I made a public move on laserlight on this forum only to discover he's male and the avatar is of a female colleague at work.

Traumatic as it may seem, it served to make me realize that I'm probably gay and I just don't know yet. I'm currently exploring the woman inside me. So... I'm unsure as to what exactly I am. I'll let you know when I can have a decent talk with her without starting to argue.

Originally Posted by Mario F.

Sometime ago I made a public move on laserlight on this forum only to discover he's male and the avatar is of a female colleague at work.

Oh the humanity, that just ruined my week

On a lighter note, in Modern English, he/him/his is also the neuter. So unless the gender of the article is relevant to the discussion, it is perfectly correct to use he/him/his when the gender is unknown.

Originally Posted by CornedBee

On another board there's mostly women, so my default stance there is "she".)

That makes me wonder if perhaps there isnt a gender imbalance among programmers, but maybe just self segregation on to male and female websites

The Obait-Ku don't have genders.

The first question here is "How do you know if the other person is telling the truth anyways?"

Things like "Does this code work?" can be verified, but should someone say that they are male or female, you can't REALLY check that unless you meet with that person - which may be difficult for some of us, as there are members almost all over the world here.

And of course, no one HAS to answer any questions here, unless the owner of the website says so [that is allowed under the condition that a website owner can do anything they like, it's voluntary to join any particular site - although each country has some laws regarding what sort of questions you may or may not ask].

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Mats

This can be determined with a get sex calculator. Just plug in the username:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int getSex()
{
    char name[100];
    fgets(name, 100, stdin);
    int i, sex=0;
    for(int i=0; i<strlen(name); i++)    
        sex += name[i];
    return sex & 2; 
}

int main()
{
    if(getSex())
        printf("Is man!");
    else
        printf("Is woman!");
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

Originally Posted by mike_g

Code:

    if(getSex())
        printf("Is man!");
    else
        printf("Is woman!");
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

So... if you can get sex it's a woman? I thought that was men?

Originally Posted by mike_g

This can be determined with a get sex calculator. Just plug in the username:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int getSex()
{
    char name[100];
    fgets(name, 100, stdin);
    int i, sex=0;
    for(int i=0; i<strlen(name); i++)    
        sex += name[i];
    return sex & 2; 
}

int main()
{
    if(getSex())
        printf("Is man!");
    else
        printf("Is woman!");
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

This makes me wonder if you tested is right
Enter name: Prelude
Is a man!
Hehehe.