Right. There are the feminine avatars. There is also his use of this emoticon --mutepointe wrote:the major things that threw me off were that the cranberries is an irish musical group that has a lead woman vocalist. i always thought the group was an all female band. then there is your avatar. everyone knows all dogs are male and all cats are females. that is just basic science. and your avatar even has two cats. then your writing tends to have a nice calm caring style. you rarely threaten to punch someone.
-- evoking a sort of feminine petulance, which sometimes smacks of a "cat in cream." Post content has a lot to do with it, as well. The content isn't "male" in nature. Viewers who don't know Cran is male perceive a sort of stereotypical female neediness in the requests for assistance with typically male things like getting keys made and filling bicycle tires, angst over not knowing how to move personal belongings, and so forth. It is also unusual for men to persistently discuss matters of their own health and religion in a public venue--they usually keep that to themselves.
Not that any of this is bad, mind you. It's just not what we associate with male behavior, so the reader adds "berry" +
+ "hardware-impaired" and comes up with . . . "It's a blonde!"
