<p>I think mini is Thomas Pynchon.</p>
<p>All I said was that Mini’s account is shared by both Mr. and Mrs. Mini. And, for that reason, it is understandable that someone thought Mini was actually a mom. </p>
<p>Is the liberal attitude that facts only matter when they fit the story becoming a true pandemic?</p>
<p>I don’t think that is why people got confused on mini’s gender. MOST of the time mini posts, it is the male in the family. I have been on CC for seven years and for many of those years, it was only the man who was posting but the reason I thought he was a she was the NAME of mini (not sure why but maybe Minnie Mouse? LOL) When his wife posted, it was for a brief period of time and she clearly identified herself as the wife using the name Ellen and so there was no confusion there. </p>
<p>Mini is not nearly the only member on CC where I have guessed the gender wrong and where only one person used that posting name (like only the husband did in mini’s case for a long while as well as after the period of Ellen’s illness). Some member names are ambiguous names and the gender is not obvious and so assumptions are made. Just today a member on CC sent me a PM and signed a female real name and when I had read her posts, I had assumed she was a dad and so there you go.</p>
<p>Now MY member name…Soozie…is rather obvious when it comes to gender! It is my real name, though spelled differently.</p>
<p>Here’s an interesting and somewhat relevant article from this morning’s Times:
<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/fashion/13spy.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=caught%20in%20the%20deceit%20of%20the%20web&st=cse[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/fashion/13spy.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=caught%20in%20the%20deceit%20of%20the%20web&st=cse</a></p>
<p>It has more to do with cheating than lying, but it sheds some light on possible motivations for some of the posing/lying that goes on here and elsewhere online.</p>