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How Do You Identify?: Special Snowflake
Preferred Pronoun?: she/her
Relationship Status: Married
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Wine Country, Oregon
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Oh girl... don't even get me started with the Godaddy BS.
As you know I work in the domain name space. I run a domain name company. I deal with it online and in person All. The. Time.
I'm a member at several domain related forums under my real name and just a couple of months ago someone recommended a poster reach out to "Kellie at Name.com, she's awesome and will help you out in a snap". That poster was promptly "corrected" and told that Kellie was a man. Sigh.
I get it on another forum on a much more regular basis and you guessed it - I have a gender neutral user name. Even though I have "female-ish" listed as my gender. Seems communication styles do, indeed, play a major role in gender identification online.
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