Oh my, how embarrassing. 

This is not the first time I have without any reason whatsoever leaped to he assumption the person on the other end was male...indeed, I have even been caught persisting in referring to some one as male after I had been informed otherwise!

Indeed, my experience here tells me that most of the more interesting people here are women, and yet I just can't seem to put aside  the default assumption that posters are male.

A thousand apologies.