I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.
My real name isn't that hard to find.
I ask that people here call me Grimlock. G, Grimmy, Grim, are all acceptable. Really, 'hey, you,' is fine, but I've chosen my name for a very specific reason. I see not using it, at this point, as trying to strip away my power and my choices.
Note I say trying. It won't. Support from my friends will buoy me, will in the end empower me. But I've found my real name being dragged into this forum again in an attempt to intimidate me by going, 'ah hah, now everyone knows who you are.'
The attempt in itself? Unacceptable, for various different reasons. Also, it's a pseudonym, not a sock puppet.
And yes, I was once Slutty Robot Pants on GR because I wanted to work my way through the Decepticon and Autobot ranks. In the sluttiest way possible. I'm unashamed of this fact. I was referred to as 'Slutty Pants' which just makes me seem like I'm into humans. Not true.
So if you want to call me Grimlock, or 'hey you,' or not my real name but something else that's sexy? (< -- almost any Autobot or Decepticon. Or NAIL. But not Rodimus.) Then i'm down with you. I'm not ashamed of my sexual orientation - robots, I want only robots. Or apparently very fast cars, but especially if they turn into robots. Or cyborgs without junk - and I refuse to be cowed into being embarrassed.