The problem is you cannot get them easily these days. In Kathmandu they said i had to apply in my home country. In Kota Bharu and Penang it was easy before, but now want much more information, like plane in/out, which I often no want to plan that long in advance. Or I want to enter and leave by land. Laos is maybe still easy, but flying to Vientiane is mostly very expensive from India or anywhere else
I crossed many many borders this year, China 3 times, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and always they scan through all the pages of my passport which takes a long time.
But I know they have all my past thai entries in the computer, saw it yesterday at the 2nd io officers desk.
Yeah, I think if you have nothing to worry about choose a woman IO, if you have something to worry about better choose a man. Think a woman is more strict to the rules.