On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
So in the hopes of sharing Pd, I hope we can keep that in mind when posting. I know I learned a lesson when I said "hey guys" on this list in the past. In California (where I grew up), men and women, feminists and not, commonly use "hey guys" to mean all people, not just males. Others read that as "hey men", which is certainly not what I meant to say...
In English you have it easy.In French there are the feminists who want profession names be gender-specific like "programmeur" vs "programmeuse", because making it only "programmeur" would imply inherent maleness, and there are those who want it to be always written like "programmeur" because having two different forms emphasises gender instead of hiding it.
(I believe that this divide is geographical, with Atlantic being the dividing "line", but I'm not sure)
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