[156858] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: guys != gender neutral
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Thu Sep 27 20:37:13 2012
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <50649C93.1090002@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:36:35 -0700
To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 27, 2012, at 11:36 AM, JC Dill wrote:
> It's NOT helping to equivocate "guys" and "girls"!
*shrug* Sorry you are offended. Some are, most of my friends use those =
terms interchangeably. (I'm referring to friends of the female gender) =
Apparently some on the east coast get offended by this, but that post =
was to a tight audience who I knew well. I use 'boys' and 'guys' =
interchangeably too, and that probably offends someone. It's not sexism =
:)
> I really wish folks would dig a bit deeper into the thesaurus to find =
appropriate words. One can use a variety of gender neutral words with =
some simple re-writing. Remember, it's perfectly OK to employ singular =
"they" as well.
>=20
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
I completely disagree. Abusing plural words causes confusion when trying =
to discuss topics and be specific about the numbers involved.
--=20
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet =
projects.
