[gbrown]

Why should a gendered name invite more attention in any way? People are often given gendered names at birth, after all.

[justtopost]

The game is gender agnostic. Dragging your personal identity into a game is a factor. JulieSmiles, Dankweedgamer666, and BeatlesFan1974 are all going to be treated differently.

[fwip]

JulianSmiles gets treated different than JuliaSmiles, though. That's the whole point of this research.

"Dragging your personal identity in" only seems to apply when that identity is different than the assumed default (male), hmmm....

[gbrown]

exactly, some biases are showing here.