The assumption (and we ALL know how to parse assume) that an entity is female w/ no further information is wrong no matter your Political Correctness quotient.
At Saturday 2002/11/30 11:11, you wrote:
"David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > "Victor A. Wagner, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > PC run amok > > No, you can't blame that on a malfunctioning PC. That was just me > being intentionally considerate.In this case, I suspect PC == Politically Correct. However, when talking about a specific individual, and not an anonymous person, I think it is quite appropriate to use the correct gender, if it is known. I suspect Victor would object to someone calling him a "her", and then ascribing any corrections to political correctness. ;) Dave _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
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