I promise--my last dkf Op--was dkf a Man or a Woman?

[trumad]

I honestly don't know.

[msanthrope]

1. Maintained a female persona. As to the actors playing dfk, I have no idea. nt

[CJCRANE]

2. AFAIK, dkf was...

a human.

[treestar]

3. Has anyone seen dkf naked?

[msanthrope]

6. Has anyone seen dfk and BBI in the same room, at the same time? nt

[Bobbie Jo]

59. lol

I don't think they were the same. BBI couldn't stray beyond the cut and paste without sounding like a complete idiot.

I'm listening!

[fadedrose]

9. Yes

But I wasn't wearing my glasses...

[treestar]

10. Oh heck

Missed opportunity!

[fadedrose]

16. What was dkf's most egregious post?

or a couple of them? I know I read several of them but never was affected by them in any way that I could remember as good or bad. Non-interest was something I may have felt.

[treestar]

20. apparently it was more a matter of a long series of

posts just under the line, and then a post linking to a piece in Forbes by a right winger who advised Rmoney.

That was what did BBI in, too. Eventually forget and linked to an outright right wing site.

[Cali_Democrat]

42. LOL

[pintobean]

4. Why would it matter?

I honestly don't know.

[trumad]

8. well...because he or she pretended to be both.

[pintobean]

11. Thanks, but that didn't answer my question.

[Lasher]

44. Because I get tired of saying 'he or she' when discussing him or her.

[fadedrose]

14. Maybe they were married or living together

conservatives and were on somebody's payroll...or they worked together. Maybe they posted on subjects they had the more knowledge on that they could better criticize. Could have been several people, named "d," "k", and "f."

[treestar]

19. Donna, Kathy and Frank

Explains not being able to keep the gender consistent!

[fadedrose]

21. Danny, Keith and Francine nt

[treestar]

23. Donavan, Kieran and Freddie!

[pintobean]

25. don't know fuck

[Lasher]

48. His name was Legion for she was many.

[Orrex]

60. :thumbsup:

[PoliticAverse]

5. Maybe. n/t

[arthritisR_US]

7. I thought a she but that could be more of a

testament of my gullibility

[BlueCaliDem]

12. Maybe both.

Who's to say that dkf was just one person? It could have been a group behind the single moniker.

I base that on the experience of having debated a certain poster on another site (that AOL bought up) who clearly had more than one person responding to me. I counted about three, judging by the "tone" (one was congenial, one was assertive and stubborn, and one was outright abrasive with LOTS of hateful personal attacks).

What I'm curious about is, what did "dkf" stand for? "Don't Know F*ck"? That's what popped up in my mind's eye every time I saw the moniker. Or . . . I just have a more filthier mind that I care to admit.

[CJCRANE]

13. Who is dkf?

IT'S YOUUUU!!!1111!!!!



NOOOOO00000OO11!!!!!!

[fadedrose]

28. Dorothy, Kyle, and Fatso

[bravenak]

15. Woman.

No,man.
Woman. Definitely a man. Maybe.

[grantcart]

17. You do realize this is the internet, right?

You mean all of those 19 year olds that are chatting with obese 50 year old guys aren't, in fact, all 19 year old cheer leaders?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish_(film)

[Squinch]

51. WHAT????? You're kidding, right?????

I just thought that there was a lot more need for cheerleading and cheerleaders in colleges these days for some reason.

[In_The_Wind]

18. From what I'm reading in the back rooms of DU, dkf was a woman.

[Recursion]

22. I still don't miss Meta (Nt)

[winter is coming]

24. I do. From what I saw of it, there was a lot of crap there that's now here instead.

Meta was great if you didn't go there.

[Recursion]

27. Oh, I see your point. Fair enough (nt)

[DURHAM D]

26. He was an "internet woman".

I believe we have several "internet women" on DU.

[elehhhhna]

32. an ILADY

lol

[Lucinda]

47. lol

stealing that!
iLady

[valerief]

53. Ha! ILIKE that! nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

29. Yes. nt

[MineralMan]

30. How does it matter?

I don't get it.

[valerief]

54. It will always matter as long as we're required to use gender-specific pronouns.

We stumble over which to use when trying to communicate. When we start using pe and per instead of he/she and him/her, it won't matter anymore.

[MineralMan]

56. Yah, well, DU makes it easy not to mention gender.

Screen names can be neutral and many DU screen names give no clue. Additionally, a lot of DUers leave that blank in their profiles. So, I never assume anything at all about a DUer's gender.

I try not to use any gender specific pronouns when I do talk about DUers in the third person, which rarely even happens.

When necessary, I just use the screen name.

[Champion Jack]

31. It was an AI bot

[hrmjustin]

33. dfk is a woman I believe.

She and Jody who was also a woman used to run in packs.

[gollygee]

38. I thought jody was a man

and dkf was a woman. They did seem like they knew each other IRL.

[hrmjustin]

39. It felt like they did know each other. I think Jody was a female but I could be wrong.

[Arugula Latte]

34. No one knows for sure ...

[Rex]

35. I don't care...it was a troll.

One that fooled me, so I am not very happy about them being here for so long or the fact they sat on 300 juries.

[NoOneMan]

58. How do you know dfk fooled you? How did they do it?

How do you know other people aren't fooling you?

[Rex]

61. How do I know other people are not fooling me?

Seriously? Didn't you just answer you own question. I've been told that there are conservative dems here and for a long long time I thought that was what dfk was. Up until she/he lost it over the IRS and sounded just like a fundie.

How does anyone know if they are being fooled? They don't.

[NoOneMan]

62. "How does anyone know if they are being fooled? They don't."

Exactly. There is a narrative being pushed here about dfk's authenticity. If such a narrative is true, it undermines many of the progressive points dfk would post (casting them as works of a troll). But the reality is, we cannot know dfk's intentions whatsoever. So to adopt a narrative of others (many "middle-wayers" mind you) is opening the door to being fooled. Even claiming dfk fooled you is an expression of belief in this narrative. Believe nothing about people you don't know. Its pointless on the internet anyway mind you.

Regardless of what this poster said, judge each unique argument on its merits (not its poster, or not its poster's alleged motives--alleged by others mind you). You do not have to buy into an ad hominem that may be baseless, anymore than you have defend this poster. In anycase, what is done is done.

[TheCowsCameHome]

36. I think you're correct.

[FarCenter]

37. On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

[Recursion]

49. Damn it

Why don't I read threads before I post?

[FarCenter]

50. It's a cartoon worth repeating.

[mattclearing]

40. This thread has been moved to the dkf forum. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

41. The Dkfungeon

[leftstreet]

43. Latest Breaking DKFNews

[Lucinda]

45. Probably.

[Recursion]

46. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog

[Loki]

52. Dummkoft Freeper yes?

They are all idiots.

[valerief]

55. Donkey Kong fan. nt

[backscatter712]

57. It. All fraudulent internet personas are to be referred to as it. n/t