[156871] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: guys != gender neutral
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Fri Sep 28 07:43:32 2012
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:43:21 -0400
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <201209281113.q8SBDvJs097053@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Given that this thread started out as a query re. a "really nasty
attack," and resulted in:
5 on-topic responses (2 of which also commented on "guys")
>20 responses re. "guys" (I stopped counting)
It occurs to me that maybe "morons" or "idiots" might be an appropriate
gender-neutral framing.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra