To have an MN name which doesn't show that I'm a dad not a mum?

[Cleggy36]

I assume that most people's working assumption (if they think about it) would be that posters on MN are mums not dads. Sometimes I feel that it's slightly cheating to have a name which doesn't clarify things, so I always end up trying to make it clear in anything I post that my point of view is that of a 46 year old bloke not a 23 year old woman.

I wouldn't worry about.

I'm sure people don't think I am a Viper pilot

I don't think it matters. Just because someone's screen name is YoungMumofFreddyandLucy doesn't necessarily mean that they are not a 46 yr old bloke.

Why 36 though? Number names are a bit shit.

I don't see how it makes a difference.

You post what you post. it is your opinion on whatever the matter is.

Unless the fact that you are male has some significance to the subject i don't see why you should have to detail your gender

Is the 36 to try to come across as being younger - if yes, do you realise in the OP, you've admitted you're 46? :o

i am not actually a cheese sarnie (nor do i say sarnie in rl) but i dont think thats make me unreasonable.
fwiw i dont assume everyone on here is a mother.

I would assume you were a 'leggy' 36 year old

it doesn't exactly do you a disservice

I'm not made of cake either

We're all supposed to be anonymous so don't see it really matters. Unless you're hanging around the menopause board...?

Ha. 36 is just habit. I opened a tesco.net email account ages ago for miscellaneous stuff and 36 was the first cleggy that was available so I kind of stuck with it. Maybe I should keep up with things and move it on each year.

In general it doesn't matter but sometimes I think it is useful to know if the poster is a man as the perspective on lots of situations is different and often helpful.
I sometimes wonder about some posts just because they don't seem like the sort of views that would generally be held by a woman.

YABU please keep your masculine shame clearly visible at all times.

I might find myself taking you seriously and then realise I've been tricked.

It's bad enough having to live with a man without having them sneaking around mumsnet in disguise.

Cleggy why are you pretending to be a laydeee? Huh?? Perv

I rather like the fact that you can be talking to someone for ages and then they say something and only then do you realise they're a bloke.

Don't think it matters very much even, as I have done, overshared a TMI childbirth moment. It wasn't a childbirth thread but it had digressed... He thanked me for enlightening him

The only time I think I would really care whether another poster was male or female would be in somewhere like the pregnancy or childbirth topics... so assuming you don't spend a lot of time hanging out in those topics (because that would be quite creepy, frankly) I don't think YABU, no.

I think most DH's/DP's would find MN very enlightening....

MollysChambers - not true imo.

ooops mega-ooops

Mis-read your post completely...

Well my dh is a MNer and his name doesn't give it away at all. He doesn't post on threads necessitating a gender check though.

When I joined MN, my name was kleggie y'know. I'm a girly.

as it says above by parents for parents,that's men and women.if you talk about your lady garden but would be embarrassed about a man reading it-don't put it on the Internet-simple!

Are you Nick Clegg though?

Bugger - I thought I'd got away with it.

School run. Bye.

Oh if you're Nick Clegg you can bugger right off.