Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks)

Thu Mar 13 01:58:50 UTC 2003

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of JC Dill
> Sent: March 12, 2003 8:37 PM
> To: nanog at 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
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(Mr.) Vivien M.
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