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> Ha-ha, I noticed earlier that you said "his name" in a subject line referring to famous this morning, and I thought, "uh-oh; I wonder how this is going to go down..." But go easy on yourself; I didn't catch onto the fact that famous has a pair of X chromosomes until one or two days ago, myself. I bet there are others out there who *still* haven't learned.
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> This whole "female presence on RinkWorks" thing has really started to be an issue over the last week or two. To avoid confusion, maybe we should get Sam to stick a button on the "Post New Message" page, for use by our female posters. The button would automatically attach an explanatory note of some sort to the beginning of the post:
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> *****ALERT!!!!!*****
> THE FOLLOWING POST IS BY A FEMALE RINKWORKS READER!!! APPROPRIATE REPLIES WILL CONTAIN THE TERMS "SHE", "HER", "HERS", AND "MEN ARE MORONS"!!!
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> Iss "it could work!" achar

This is the reason I didn't want to share my gender. I don't go for that whole femenist, "men are morons" thing.....I just want to post and be relpied to. that's all. but if you must call me a him or her, please use the correct one. (her)

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