If there's some overwhelming advantage to having a female avatar, I must have missed it between all the misogynistic pine themed threads created and threatening/creepy PMs received. The only tangible advantage I can think of was gulling some people into learning PGP. I'd say the advantage of the latter was well and truly canceled out by the former. Pine doesn't tell you whether pine is a male or a female for extremely obvious reasons that ought to be well understood and appreciated by a forum of anonymous cyber criminals. I think I can tell you I am a mammal. Proud of belonging to the mammal kingdom, a friend to all the warm blooded furry animals I can think of. llamas, cats, otters, kangaroos and squirrels. I don't believe in a creator, but consider the platypus reasonable evidence for the argument on the other side. I mean that thing is very close to being too hilarious to be real. Hopefully, with either reincarnation or much more likely modern science's genetic engineering, pine will be able to come back and define oneself as a platypus. Now you know the truth. There's more interesting things to be than a female or a male. You could be a platypus./platypus pine :)