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>You need to make sure the name is actually girlish sounding, of course.

Such as:

Geekgirl89

Girlgeek5

Grrlgrrl

Emilygeek8

Sleepygrlgeek

shygrlsam

lonelygirlphil

How am I doing?

Have you employed this tactic?

On the flip side, you have guys hitting on you just because your name is feminine, or worse, they assume you don't know anything. I'm 'jane' on freenode, and it happens a LOT, and I suspect it'd be worse if I used my twitter handle which also works for my website ('janeylicious' ;) ). On a sidenote, I also get guys named Jan with last names starting with E trying to use that nick..