Why mistaken as opposite sex online?

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Pretty much as the title says.

I'm a straight guy for the most part, yet often get asked online if i am of opposite sex.
They tend to ask me this question "Are you a girl?" instead of "Are you a guy?"

I'm gradually getting annoyed by the fact that I run into similar situations multiple times up to now.
Is this just me or is there anyone who suffers from a similar problem?
Do you think I'm just being oversensitive or is it them who are lacking consideration?

I get mistaken for the opposite sex in real life. It rocks. Embrace it?

Interesting.

We would have to see example of your conversations with folks on the Net to comment on why this happens to you.

The opposite thing is more common (girls having to admonish others to not "call me 'dude'") because guys tend to assume that the person they are speaking to is another guy ( men are the majority on the Net so that's not a totally irrational assumption).

Do you talk about "My Little Pony" often? Nothing wrong with it if you do. Many guys are into My Little Pony, but they usually make sure to explain that "despite being a guy I am into My Little Pony". Maybe you forget to explain that.

This happens to me a lot in the opposite case as a woman, although as naturalplastic says, it's more common for guys on the internet to assume that everyone else is a guy, and so they mistake women for men.

There's a forum I don't go to much anymore where women are so outnumbered, and there are some not very nice people on there, that some of the men there started actually making a point of bullying the female members and insisting they're faking and lying, a very hostile situation.

This happens to me a lot in the opposite case as a woman, although as naturalplastic says, it's more common for guys on the internet to assume that everyone else is a guy, and so they mistake women for men.

There's a forum I don't go to much anymore where women are so outnumbered, and there are some not very nice people on there, that some of the men there started actually making a point of bullying the female members and insisting we're faking and lying, a very hostile situation.

I don't even correct people anymore. My gender is irrelevant to most conversations.

I've often been assumed to be female because I didn't swear enough.

That happens to me too, probably because of my interests. I like it though, so whatever. ^.^

I am only confused when people aren't clear and have the opposite gender in their profile but gender is irrelevant to most online discussion. I don't even care about my own gender most of time being some what asexual so I rarely pay attention unless I am in a discussion pertaining to gender. I am not quick to assume that hobbies equal a particular gender since women can be into gaming and cars and men can be into cooking and whatever else a stereotypical woman does.

Because
I've been told that I'm too intelligent to be a female.
The lady who told me this was a feminist.

Strange, huh?

People have mistaken me for a guy online. I've taken it as an insult.