Insider report: Ambrose--not a boy

A few days ago I wrote to Amy Welborn (see Open Book link to the left) with a question about one of her books. I signed the e-mail, "Jennifer Ambrose, aka one of your foolish posting fans Ambrose." Occasionally when I am feeling brave or full of myself I have responded to her blog postings, and the signature that shows up is just "Ambrose." In Amy's emailed response she mentioned that all this time she thought Ambrose was a boy. I have sometimes posted things that start with "When I was working..." so I wonder if she thought I was a college-aged boy or a retired old man. If after I had linked to one of her postings (and oh great because I think the only time I did that was when I said I liked her but some of her readers are crackpots), she came over here and read some of my stuff, she would probably think I was the wussiest man alive. Or maybe she saw all the sports stuff, too, and thought I must be some sort of pathetic wuss.
And then I thought about some of the other posters that respond to me directly in the comments section. They probably assume I am a boy, too. I wonder if that gave my arguments any weight with some of the men. I've gone back and looked at a few times when another woman has taken me to task for something I have said. I can now imagine some of them saying, well, who does HE think he is, and they give me very measured rebuttals.
I could be imagining the whole gender-reaction-thing altogether. But if I had known I was masquerading as a boy, I would have wreaked much more havoc on the blogworld. You know, being a boy is a free pass to recklessness :-)