I'm still slightly bemused by this.

I received a message recently from a man asking "Male orr female ?".

I replied: "Meaning ?.
I am male looking for female.
How many women do you know with a beard like mine?".

He's now blocked.

I know a few with hairy warts and moles

You know my ex wife?

Today I was messaged "cats or dogs?"....let your imagination run wild with that. There was not a sheep option...

That is a automatic messege the site is sending out.. so beware it is not them.. that is sending that.. to others..

There are many worse questions.

I don't understand?

is it okay man that offended you that man with that question

hi you are sexy

Me neither. Never got such a message

I can't sleep now I feel rejected and overlooked

Uh-oh.

....What happens if that profile just happened to be where the internet became self aware? They just "woke up" and were all "wtf is going on? What am I? Where am I?"
And due to a lack of understanding or experience it reached out to the nearest (in internet terms) self aware entity and was asking "what am I? Male? Female?" For some simple answers and contact that it wasn't alone.
But being recently born into awareness its communication skills are lacking.

Now it's going to self identify, and feel bad that the only other entity blocked them, shut the door, snubbed and ignored them in their time of agony and growth.

You might have doomed us all!

There there, Freebird. If it'll make you feel any better, I also feel overlooked.

Well the message "cats or dogs" came from a poster ...I think Txsgal is pulling our legs

Well at least I have had something pulled this week

I’ve had 6 of those messages in the past from different members

Every message was identical down to the emojis.

Both the "male or female" and "cats or dogs" are conversation starters, no different than some post in the threads.

OP... Since our profiles don't show our preference for male or female anymore, the messenger was most likely asking what your preference is.