[156880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: guys != gender neutral
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Sep 28 10:37:02 2012
To: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:43:21 -0400."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:34:20 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:43:21 -0400, Miles Fidelman said:
> 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.
I usually use 'critters' for that. salescritters, congresscritters, trollcritters.
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