I understand the appeal of wanting to remain completely anonymous, to have people accept or reject your ideas on their own merit, not because of your gender, the color of your skin, or how physically appealing you are, because people do exactly that given half the chance. How often on the internet do you see people fawning over something because the author put their good looking face next to it, or disregarding someone's opinions or ability because of gender, or saying the author only holds a certain opinion because of their race? Every damn day.