[156866] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: guys != gender neutral
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Fri Sep 28 05:27:21 2012
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:27:10 +0100 (BST)
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E14AC703-27B6-427E-B245-23363F6DD924@netconsonance.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Given the lack of truly neutral terms in english, I have
> taken to alternative my pronouns interchangably when I write.
"Folks"? I really do mean "folks" when I write "guys", but I do understand why it can come across as exclusionary, and I try to force myself into the habit of "folks". It sounds a bit odd in English, although not as archaic as "chaps", which I'm also guilty of; I'm assuming there's no additional cultural assumptions attached to "folks" in American?
Cheers,
Tim.
