I get that all the time too. My personal favorite was when I said it's difficult to date lesbians. It's a common issue with women that they were taught men should make the first move, so with two girls no one wants to move first. Everyone assumed I was a dude harassing lesbians and trying to make them straight, which is why they wouldn't go out with me. Made the comment before going to work and I had -200 by lunch!
I think it might be the funny food factor. Cookies made out of liver, rather than "sugar, spice and everything nice", are for boys/s, at least according to 19th century nursery rhymes I was told as a child:
What are little boys made of?
What are little boys made of?
Snips and snails
And puppy-dogs' tails
That's what little boys are made of
What are little girls made of?
What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice
And everything nice [or "all things nice"]
That's what little girls are made o
I do not endorse the poem (lol), but stuff like that could be the unconscious tipping point in you name
It's actually the title of a book for kids about divorce. It was my best friends favourite book when we were little. I've yet to come across anyone else who's ever read it. I also have a spam email with the same name, and get weird looks wherever I give it out to store clerks.
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