Well, to both of you, I blame it on the fact that most wimmens do not play games, and most of the ones that do don't play at such a high level. IF maybe 35% of Pokémon players are women, I would say smogon is made up of a small percentage of Pokémon players alltogether, maybe 5%. The amount of chick's on smogon is about 20%. Numbers numbers numbers, you make up a very very small percentage of players. Like 1% of 1% of all players in the world. You are the cream of the crop as far as your gender goes. And I commend you for it.
As for why people might mistake you being men besides the overwhelming odds. Esmeya-your avatar is a dude. Doing what looks like fan karate, plus in your info you choose not to self identify. And BriarRose- briar looks close to brian, and thus people make reading mistakes. (Which is all I got for you lol)
I like to know who I am talking to most of the time. So I knew both of your genders before, because you are such frequent posters. But I can understand why some don't know and assume because of the odds.
Edit: to keep on topic does anyone have some simple breeding projects? I am trying to get my friend to join here but he has nothing so I am trying to teach him the ways.