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Then what is the point of this game if everyone lies about their gender?
So let me get this straight. If this was a real life situation and lets say... an anonymous person in a competition calls up a radio station (oh and the only pre-requesites are that the person has to be a female), this person is a male but is good at faking voices. Puts on a female voice. Then when he goes to collect his prize, he uses his sister instead. She collects the prize and keeps them distracted while he robs the entire building. Oh wouldn't that be lots of fun?
It may be overboard, but it's an example.
The point is that showing genders in here isn't completely necessarily because for all you know, we could all be lying. And hey, even the pictures we post could've all been retrieved from myspace. You never know with the Intenet. That's why I find it stupid that it's compulsary to show a gender; and you're even allowed to lie about it, but when someone doesn't show a gender everyone makes a big deal about it, when in fact it is no worse than lying about your gender in the first place just to alter numbers in a thread on a Pokemon forum.