Re: The sex mystery

In article <6cnn93F3i0dd7U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <b4kb6412bk6vml1rcdf4lgop4rsoshqshh@xxxxxxx>, Oleg Lego <> wrote:

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:11:21 -0700 (PDT), WoodyWordpecker posted:

People who use IDs that give no indication of the sex of the poster
are a problem. Must we refer to them as "he or she"? That can get
quite cumbersome after a while.

[ snip ]

Use whichever sounds right to you. If you're wrong, and if it's
important to the recipient, you will be corrected.


As someone who has one of those "no clues" IDs, I'll comment:

Oleg's approach be acceptable to me

s/be/would be/

Maybe I should do that "proofread one more time" thing *before*
posting, rather than after receiving the posted copy from my
news server? Yipes. (I'm not sure what happened, above, though
the likeliest cause is editing run amok. I seem to remember
that someone here -- Maria C.? -- recently commented on just
this phenomenon.)

-- I might have a slight
preference for initially being referred to as "he/she", but that
is kind of ugly. I do correct people who use "he", politely
I hope, I suppose out of some half-formed idea that somehow by
doing so I'm helping fight a stereotype about most Usenet posters
(particularly in technical newsgroups) being male.

Very much my two cents' worth, and others' mileage may vary.

--
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.
.

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