[56722] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Wed Mar 12 20:59:13 2003
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:58:50 -0500
In-Reply-To: <3E6FE0B7.9090708@vo.cnchost.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of JC Dill
> Sent: March 12, 2003 8:37 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks)
>=20
> It is offensive to many people (both male and female) when=20
> someone automatically assumes that an "unknown" person is=20
> male. Especially since:
[snip]
> It is doubly offensive when you opine that I have an=20
> obligation to create and use [1] a gender-specific name=20
> solely to make things easier for you and other sexist jerks^W=20
> men^W^W induh^H^Hividuals. What would you do if my name was=20
> Pat or Chris? Or if YOUR name was Pat or Chris?
I've had the opposite problem (people thinking I'm female, when I'm =
not...),
and it can get quite annoying, I agree.
I wonder if perhaps a solution would be doing something I saw a =
gentleman
from China, IIRC, do on this list quite a while ago. He had added (Mr.) =
to
his .sig to make it easy for people to figure out his gender. Perhaps =
this
would be an easyish way to somewhat-subtly warn people of the correct
gender?
Vivien
--=20
(Mr.) Vivien M.
vivienm@dyndns.org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic DNS Network Services
http://www.dyndns.org/=20
