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Made in gb
Longtime Dakkanaut






In a Trayzn pokeball

I don't identify as male. I am male.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
The hobby is actually hating GW.
 iGuy91 wrote:
You love the T-Rex. Its both a hero and a Villain in the first two movies. It is the "king" of dinosaurs. Its the best. You love your T-rex.
Then comes along the frakking Spinosaurus who kills the T-rex, and the movie says "LOVE THIS NOW! HE IS BETTER" But...in your heart, you love the T-rex, who shouldn't have lost to no stupid Spinosaurus. So you hate the movie. And refuse to love the Spinosaurus because it is a hamfisted attempt at taking what you loved, making it TREX +++ and trying to sell you it.
 Elbows wrote:
You know what's better than a psychic phase? A psychic phase which asks customers to buy more miniatures...
the_scotsman wrote:
Dae think the company behind such names as deathwatch death guard deathskullz death marks death korps deathleaper death jester might be bad at naming?
 
   
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Sinewy Scourge




Boulder, Colorado

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
I don't identify as male. I am male.


Have an exalt good sir!

   
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Resolute Ultramarine Honor Guard






Vancouver, BC

Higher than one percent, lower than 100 percent.

 warboss wrote:
Is there a permanent stickied thread for Chaos players to complain every time someone/anyone gets models or rules besides them? If not, there should be.
 
   
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Disbeliever of the Greater Good





I identify as a male attack chopper, transitioning into the largest icy-block submersible-capable battleship that I should be, complete with a wing of fighters, 120k marines, and lots of ammunition on deck!
   
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Canada

 epicmunda wrote:
I identify as a male attack chopper, transitioning into the largest icy-block submersible-capable battleship that I should be, complete with a wing of fighters, 120k marines, and lots of ammunition on deck!
I agree what you identify with is quite "epic" but it does seem to poke fun at some rather honest responses I would hate to discourage.
Because if I had the choice, I would always be "The Batman".
"Harley" a close second.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte 
   
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Warning From Magnus? Not Listening!





Holy Terra.

I am upset that you did include my gender. Fire gods have feelings too.

   
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Fresh-Faced New User




Initiate transitioning to Astartes.

Sarcasm aside, as has been said earlier, actually transgender and it is cool to see the option up there, so cheers.
   
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Rampaging Chaos Russ Driver




I identify as a basement dwelling virgin.

   
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Joined the Military for Authentic Experience





On an Express Elevator to Hell!!

From my experience I reckon it's probably about a 9.5:1 ratio of men to women, generally within the wargaming hobby. Although very difficult to tell of course from logins on a forum!

 Talizvar wrote:
 Weboflies wrote:
Regardless of the response to this thread, a method like this where people have to volunteer to give info, is not going to give you a result that's anything like representative of the actual demographics of the community as a whole, only the demographics of those who are enthusiastic enough about the subject to choose to participate.
Nothing can come of this but baseless speculation.
But the discussion on this baseless speculation is priceless.
It was a sad thing when my love of my life will have nothing to do with the hobby... it may be for the best.
I think we are rather "special" as it is as fans of 40k, one would speculate women are "smarter" than that.


I have a couple of female friends that will happily play board games (casual stuff like Carcasonne, but even more 'man-oriented' games like Zombiecide and Spartacus), but there is no way they would ever get involved with something with a tape measure or an army list. Although having said that I have male friends who are exactly the same, so not quite sure why I made that point!

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The Dog-house

I used to run a Black Crusade RPG group with a girl in it that we all called "Mother." She demanded that she be an Obliterator and I have never seen someone roleplay a CSM as good as her.

H.B.M.C.- The end hath come! From now on armies will only consist of Astorath, Land Speeder Storms and Soul Grinders!
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South Dakota

How about... "It's none of your business?!?!?!"

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~A grammatically correct sentence can have multiple, valid interpretations.
Arguing over the facts is the lowest form of debate. 
   
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 Ashenwyte wrote:
I'm male transitioning to Daemon Prince. Just a few more skulls for Chaos left to go!

Maybe having Guilliman as your photo displeases the Dark Gods...

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2000pts Bane Of Sanity.

The Executioner:
500pts Deathwing Cohort.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoF9p6MHQWeKiTlawHESGLA 
   
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Legendary Master of the Chapter






Male Transitioning into a potato


 Unit1126PLL wrote:
 Scott-S6 wrote:
And yet another thread is hijacked for Unit to ask for the same advice, receive the same answers and make the same excuses.

Oh my god I'm becoming martel.
Send help!

 
   
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Been Around the Block




New York

I'm mostly a caffeine based life form at this point.
   
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Fresh-Faced New User




I've been saying for years that we need more women in this hobby, and GW keeps not releasing plastic Sisters. I'm of the opinion that If there was a predominantly female army to play (Besides Nids and Eldar), with some proper marketing to the demographic you'd see a shift in that ratio. My 11 year old daughter's eyes lit up when she saw Celestine + Geminae painted and immediately asked me if there was a whole army like that she could play. I said yes, but they're all metal and mostly out of stock everywhere, She pouted until I did a squad of Seraphim to tag along and now she regularly plays Inquisimunda with them. If they had plastics she could grab an infantry box every few weeks by squirreling away allowance money 'til she could play full scale 40k, but as it is she'll be lucky to field 2000 points by the time she starts high school.

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Hello 2017

Edit: ok.

Since i was also on this page from last year

I'm still working on becoming a potato.

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 Unit1126PLL wrote:
 Scott-S6 wrote:
And yet another thread is hijacked for Unit to ask for the same advice, receive the same answers and make the same excuses.

Oh my god I'm becoming martel.
Send help!

 
   
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President of the Mat Ward Fan Club






Los Angeles, CA


Poll threads don't really have an expiration date unless they are tied to a specific date/time (like talking about a particular edition of 40k, for example), especially as polls in this forum get cycled back onto the front page blog roll.


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Regular Dakkanaut




It could, but said point would be wrong.


Not really, males tend to use forums more than females who use social media more. Actually there are even particular leanings in social media. Facebook is used more often by females than Twitter, for example.

With regards to the poll, I'm too old for that stuff, I just go by my chromosomes, it's all we had. Plus, dudes really turn me off.
   
Made in gb
Executing Exarch





I usually identity via reflective surfaces

"AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED." 
   
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Grizzled Space Wolves Great Wolf





 Turnip Jedi wrote:
I usually identity via reflective surfaces
I identify as a vampire, therefore reflective surfaces do not identify me.
   
Made in gb
Executing Exarch





AllSeeingSkink wrote:
 Turnip Jedi wrote:
I usually identity via reflective surfaces
I identify as a vampire, therefore reflective surfaces do not identify me.


You should write a letter, seems like a breach of your inhoomun rights

"AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED." 
   
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Kid_Kyoto






Probably work

I am a rapidly diminishing consciousness helplessly imprisoned within a slowly decomposing sack of meat. It has purpose-grown dangly bits attached to it that, while useful for their given application, have vastly more importance placed upon them in society than really should be when you consider that everyone is the same as me.

Assume all my mathhammer comes from here: https://github.com/daed/mathhammer 
   
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Frenzied Berserker Terminator





Canada

I'm just gonna cast my vote and back away slowly.

Um, cheers.



Gets along better with animals... Go figure. 
   
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Warning From Magnus? Not Listening!





Holy Terra.

Hey, this thread is back on the front page!
I think I should add that my transition from immortal god-being to human has met with some problems.

   
Made in se
Executing Exarch






 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
I don't identify as male. I am male.


So... you identify as male. That was all you needed to say.
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut






In a Trayzn pokeball

 Mymearan wrote:
So... you identify as male. That was all you needed to say.

Whoosh.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
The hobby is actually hating GW.
 iGuy91 wrote:
You love the T-Rex. Its both a hero and a Villain in the first two movies. It is the "king" of dinosaurs. Its the best. You love your T-rex.
Then comes along the frakking Spinosaurus who kills the T-rex, and the movie says "LOVE THIS NOW! HE IS BETTER" But...in your heart, you love the T-rex, who shouldn't have lost to no stupid Spinosaurus. So you hate the movie. And refuse to love the Spinosaurus because it is a hamfisted attempt at taking what you loved, making it TREX +++ and trying to sell you it.
 Elbows wrote:
You know what's better than a psychic phase? A psychic phase which asks customers to buy more miniatures...
the_scotsman wrote:
Dae think the company behind such names as deathwatch death guard deathskullz death marks death korps deathleaper death jester might be bad at naming?
 
   
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Executing Exarch






 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
 Mymearan wrote:
So... you identify as male. That was all you needed to say.

Whoosh.


Indeed. Whoosh. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you know the difference between sex and gender, and thus why the poll is worded like it is.

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Eye of Terror

 Mymearan wrote:
 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
 Mymearan wrote:
So... you identify as male. That was all you needed to say.

Whoosh.


Indeed. Whoosh. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you know the difference between sex and gender, and thus why the poll is worded like it is.


Maybe he's tolerating the question being asked while letting you know he believes gender identity is an artificial and contrived distinction with no basis in fact. Maybe he is also letting you know polls like this are somewhat condescending as anyone who has spent time on Dakka realizes female representation is less than 1%. The OP is asking this to try and make other people feel bad.

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In a Trayzn pokeball

 techsoldaten wrote:
Maybe he's tolerating the question being asked while letting you know he believes gender identity is an artificial and contrived distinction with no basis in fact. Maybe he is also letting you know polls like this are somewhat condescending as anyone who has spent time on Dakka realizes female representation is less than 1%. The OP is asking this to try and make other people feel bad.

Essentially yes, but tbh my militancy has rather dropped off since I posted the original comment, so I'm not gonna bother having the argument.

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 JohnHwangDD wrote:
The hobby is actually hating GW.
 iGuy91 wrote:
You love the T-Rex. Its both a hero and a Villain in the first two movies. It is the "king" of dinosaurs. Its the best. You love your T-rex.
Then comes along the frakking Spinosaurus who kills the T-rex, and the movie says "LOVE THIS NOW! HE IS BETTER" But...in your heart, you love the T-rex, who shouldn't have lost to no stupid Spinosaurus. So you hate the movie. And refuse to love the Spinosaurus because it is a hamfisted attempt at taking what you loved, making it TREX +++ and trying to sell you it.
 Elbows wrote:
You know what's better than a psychic phase? A psychic phase which asks customers to buy more miniatures...
the_scotsman wrote:
Dae think the company behind such names as deathwatch death guard deathskullz death marks death korps deathleaper death jester might be bad at naming?
 
   
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Based on posts on Dakka I'm fairly convinced that transgendered female miniatures gamers outnumber CIS female miniatures gamers by a significant margin. Which has me wondering what the ratio of transgender vs CIS female miniature gamers is? No agenda, just curiosity.
   
 
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