Re: Creating worlds that are big enough....

On May 14, 5:53 pm, Bill Swears <wswe...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Andrew Halliwell wrote:
Alma Hromic Deckert <angh...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't insist on neuter. Not by a long shot. But what I might have
liked is a little bit of common sense about the name, and, if  jumping
to conclusions about gender, not running with "male as default" -
seeing as us gurrrls have opinions too occasionally and are known to
express them...

And using "she" and "her" for a man causes no offence?
Face it, the male default is pretty standard and is far less likely to cause
offense than the other way 'round, IMO.

When I was a teenager, I lived in Iran[...] Andrew could come from a village in the sticks, where the language
is still taught in the fashion is was forty years ago, and be perfectly
sincere in his use of him and he for Catja, or could have made a
legitimate mistake in parsing Catja's name, and be attempting to defend
his error rather than just apologizing for it, or have tried to explain
his error out of embarrassment, and stepped into yet another set of
land-mines.

I don't think we'll ever really know.

Bill

The moral for Andrew is that if you're going to take the piss around
here, you have to be prepared for it to be thrown back at you from an
entirely different direction.



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