Terje Slettebų <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>From: "David B. Held" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> "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. ;) > > I'm reminded of when Aleksey said (regarding the MPL paper, which uses > "she"), that "MPL user is "she" ". I was tempted to say "Name one." :)
...which might, after all, be a good reason to use "she". I know of a few female users of metaprogramming tools, but only a few. Engineering departments, conferences, seminars and newsgroups filled only with men do tend to get boring, don't you think? An argument can be made that using "he" everywhere makes the field less-welcoming to women. If I can do some small part to counteract that, so much the better. Furthermore, since we were discussing looking for this person, it's always possible that one of us knows a Christine Green in the field who might have been overlooked had I not pointed out the possibility that (s)he could be a woman. Finally, I'd feel pretty foolish if I had gone along presuming that "C. Green" was a man and she turned out to be a woman. So I was just practicing a little CYA in case things turned out differently than I expected. -- David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.boost-consulting.com Boost support, enhancements, training, and commercial distribution _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost