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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of JC Dill > Sent: March 12, 2003 8:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) > > It is offensive to many people (both male and female) when > someone automatically assumes that an "unknown" person is > male. Especially since: [snip] > It is doubly offensive when you opine that I have an > obligation to create and use [1] a gender-specific name > solely to make things easier for you and other sexist jerks^W > men^W^W induh^H^Hividuals. What would you do if my name was > Pat or Chris? Or if YOUR name was Pat or Chris? I've had the opposite problem (people thinking I'm female, when I'm not...), and it can get quite annoying, I agree. I wonder if perhaps a solution would be doing something I saw a gentleman from China, IIRC, do on this list quite a while ago. He had added (Mr.) to his .sig to make it easy for people to figure out his gender. Perhaps this would be an easyish way to somewhat-subtly warn people of the correct gender? Vivien -- (Mr.) Vivien M. [email protected] Assistant System Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/
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