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RE: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks)
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm () dyndns org>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:58:50 -0500
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of JC Dill Sent: March 12, 2003 8:37 PM To: nanog () merit edu 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. vivienm () dyndns org Assistant System Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/
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- RE: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) Vivien M. (Mar 12)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) Jack Bates (Mar 12)
- RE: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) Vivien M. (Mar 12)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) Andy Dills (Mar 12)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 12)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) Owen DeLong (Mar 13)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) Owen DeLong (Mar 13)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) Stephen Sprunk (Mar 12)
- Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks) Tim Thorne (Mar 12)
- Re: 69/8...this sucks Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 12)
- Re: 69/8...this sucks Niels Bakker (Mar 13)