Eric209 Wrote:I would present a serious response that makes valid points also I do not mean it to be disrespectful.
I would posit that its a chosen handle and not a given name and as such respect of it is not due. Your specific handle on this forum comes off as frivolous and fictitious. For a nickname to have any serious worth or value it must be given and validated by others.
It only sounds frivolous and fictitious if you've never heard me say it fifty times in a row with ne'er a stutter nor a snicker

It was my name before it was my username

For comparison, a (younger by 4+ years) niece of mine decided she wished to be called Nicole but half a year ago... and they have all nearly flawlessly adapted (including her mother and even great-grandmother).
Pretending that this isn't a way they express their denial of my being a woman is to wear the rosiest colored glasses in existence.

Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day