[156882] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: guys != gender neutral
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Fri Sep 28 11:44:33 2012
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:40:43 -0400
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <12258.1348842860@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 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.
I'm kind of a fan of Greg House on this one. Or Mel Brooks, from Blazing
Saddles: “They’re common people – the salt of the earth. You know –
Morons”. :-)
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
