Survey: Your Gender

[allchopin]

doing a survey, are u male or female? Im interested, as many are, about how many men vs. women play the piano.

[Ktari]

hehehe, how about how many are geeky enough to be at an online forum? ^^ f... although it will get messy if everyone starts posting a message just to say f or m, i wonder if there's another way to do this?

[ThEmUsIcMaNBJ]

m

[eddie92099]

m,
Ed

[ned]

Allchopin: Good idea, but asking is too easy! You should be able to figure out the gender of members first by their screen names and secondly by the language of their posts.

It is obvious that Hmoll and Rachfan are men by their syntax and choice of words.

There are also some adolescent males on the forum who reveal themselves by their bad manners and poor grammar.

And if dreamaurora, chopinetta and amee aren't young women, well...then maybe you have to do the survey after all.
Ned

[xenon]

Ned> thats true to some degree  I mean, TheMusicMan? Female...? heh.  

Well, just for the sake of this topic, I'm a male.

How many people would name themselves from an element?...

[eddie92099]

Allchopin: Good idea, but asking is too easy! You should be able to figure out the gender of members first by their screen names and secondly by the language of their posts.

It is obvious that Hmoll and Rachfan are men by their syntax and choice of words.

There are also some adolescent males on the forum who reveal themselves by their bad manners and poor grammar.

And if dreamaurora, chopinetta and amee aren't young women, well...then maybe you have to do the survey after all.
Ned

Ned, as an adolescent male I am offended! Additionally, one should not start a sentence with the word "and". Why imply males should have incorrect grammar but not females, and that adolescents should have incorrect grammar but not adults?
Ed

[allchopin]

And can be used correctly to begin a sentence (as such!), though it is rarely done.  But hey, am I a m or f? hehe that should leave you wondering.
?     ?

[eddie92099]

"And" can be used only in quotation marks when beginning a sentence, not as a conjunction which is how Ned used it,
Ed

[ned]

I rest my case.
Ned

[Ktari]

haha, oi, it's a joke! my grammar SUCKS! (not that I try that hard...)

allchopin i hope you're a guy cause your name is brian or something hehe

*cough* i actually, well, i mentally thought Hmoll and Rachfan were male, but every time i saw the names they sounded feminine to me... i don't know, Hmoll reminded me of molly, and Rachfan reminded me of Rachel.. you know, that nickname, Rach = Rachel

*wanders off innocently*

[eddie92099]

Ned, what case do you rest exactly?
Ed

[la_carrenio2003]

F,of course...

[allchopin]

i think the males are at the bench more often...  

[ned]

Ed:

You ask what case I rested?

That's lawyer talk. There comes a point in a trial where you may decide that you do not need to introduce any further evidence or call any more witnesses, so you "rest."  You may have heard a lawyer say,"The defense rests, your Honor." The case then may go to the judge or a jury for decision, or the other side may continue to present.

In my post I made several statements.  There were a number of replies which I believe amply confirmed what I had said.  So I rested.

Ned

[eddie92099]

Ned,
I understand the phrase "I rest my case". This was not what I was asking you though. I was inquiring vis-a-vis the contents of the case, seeing as none of it seemed to be confirmed by your statements,
Ed

[allchopin]

hey ned and eddie, youre ruining the survey here- lets get back on track (not talk about law...)

[S.Peterson]

I agree, let's not ruin the post by trying to argue over some insignificant comment.
Back to the post, I'm an f.

[ned]

For Ed's eyes only, in order not to spoil the thread for others or to distract allchopin from his goal!!

Ed:
It is true that I did not offer backup for my theories. They may be imprecise; they may be based on intuition. But so far no one has offered proof that they are incorrect.

I should ask you whether you disagree that:
1. Hmoll and RachFan are male. (Apologies to them for mentioning their names again.)
2. I said SOME (not necessarily all) adolescent males can be identified from boastful, impertinent, hot headed or  inarticulate posts. (There have been a number of these over the life of the forum. I am not criticizing the behaviour; I admire it, but I am saying that such posts tell you something about the gender and age of  the author.)
3. Chopinetta, amee and dreamaurora are female. Any disagreement with that?
That's all I said.

This forum is, in some ways, like a masked ball. You can  read the clues or you can ask for identification.  It's just a matter of taste.
Ned

[eddie92099]

For Ned's eyes only,
I fail to see the link between adolescent males and poor grammar. Please could you enlighten me further on this topic,
Ed

[Rach3]

Only an adolescent male would prolong this subthread, ed and ned.

M.

[tph]

"And" can be used only in quotation marks when beginning a sentence, not as a conjunction which is how Ned used it,
Ed

Not true.  Refer to The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, for example.

With reference to the survey, I'm a male.

tph

[MrPiano]

I'm male...obviously. (mr.)

[tosca1]

Despite some progress in the area of gender equality some levels of society would still adhere to the old fashioned notion that playing the piano is more for girls than for boys.  Anecdotal evidence from piano teachers would suggest that this is still the case.  Although my pseudonym is tosca1, I usually sign off with my first name to leave no one in any doubt!
Kind regards,
Robert.  

[allchopin]

so are you a girl or what?

[tosca1]

Come on allchopin. Is Robert a female or male name?
Good luck with your survey. and I hope you can give us the results of your findings.
Thanks,
Robert.  

[allchopin]

haha

i was just kidding. Ill be getting results after more ppl answer.

[dinosaurtales]

For ed and ned's eyes only.  This *eyes only* thing isn't working.  We still have to wade through your posts.  

so stop it.

btw, I am an F - red head - HHHHHHHHOT!

[Bosendorfer_214]

Ned is correct in that one can deduce much about another through their writing.  Syntax, word chioce, and writing styles, can speak volumes of ones personality.

m (teenage)

[eddie92099]

I only wish Bosendorfer_214 spelt choice correctly, removed the comma after "styles" and included an apostrophe in the word "ones" ("one's"!),
Ed

[allchopin]

Hey the gender thing is already done. Check out "Results of Survey: Your Gender"
No more posts past this line!
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[sram]

aho...thread hijack

*amused

[Irock1ce]

Allchopin: Good idea, but asking is too easy! You should be able to figure out the gender of members first by their screen names and secondly by the language of their posts.

It is obvious that Hmoll and Rachfan are men by their syntax and choice of words.

There are also some adolescent males on the forum who reveal themselves by their bad manners and poor grammar.

And if dreamaurora, chopinetta and amee aren't young women, well...then maybe you have to do the survey after all.
Ned

Blud, whatchu talkin' bout? Aint no problems wit adolescent males. We just straight up G's. Thuggin' it up in this hizzouse! Thugz got feelins too dawg.. aint nothin wrong with thugs playin some piano.. WESTSIDE BERKELEY, H20! WSB!

[jbeuph]

male

[R.Q.]

male.

[rEdundant]

im also female minus the 'fe'

[schnabels_grandson]

I'm a card-carrying member of the male gender. Hey! That kinda rhymed.  

[liszmaninopin]

I am a male and 15 years old.

Along the lines of this issue, is it just my perception or does there seem to be a higher percentage of males among the truly eminent pianists than females?  I could be mistaken, but when I walk into any shop that sells piano cds, it seems that there are many more men recorded than women.

[eddie92099]

Along the lines of this issue, is it just my perception or does there seem to be a higher percentage of males among the truly eminent pianists than females?  

I think you are right,
Ed

[dinosaurtales]

That's interesting, and you might be right.  But thinking about the local piano teachers, I would guess that a huge percentage of the teachers are women.  What's everybody's theory on that one?

[eddie92099]

That's interesting, and you might be right.  But thinking about the local piano teachers, I would guess that a huge percentage of the teachers are women.  What's everybody's theory on that one?

The men have proper jobs  ,
Ed

[dinosaurtales]

a-HEM!  ED!  Ver-r-r-ry funny!

[TwinkleFingers]

Im a male.  The guys at work always joke around with me about how many pianists are gay.  I am not gay.  Im offended that I am stereotyped just because I play the piano.

[littlegrass]

I'm an f.

actually, there are many male pianists I know and none of them are gay.....

[dinosaurtales]

WEIRD  I never would have made the *gay* connection.  

[thracozaag]

Well..it's quite a list:

Horowitz
Bolet
Richter
Van Cliburn

..and lots more...

[allchopin]

Not too detract TOO much from the topic...

Are you serious? Where did you get this information?

[thracozaag]

 Well, I know for a fact on the first two.  The other two are common knowlege, I thought.

[eddie92099]

Well..it's quite a list:

Horowitz
Bolet
Richter
Van Cliburn

..and lots more...

Horowitz?! He was married (but then again, so was Richter!),
Ed

[thracozaag]

 I've heard tapes of Horowitz..describing...things...that I wished I hadn't heard.