On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Mikhail Zabaluev <mikhail.zabal...@gmail.com> wrote: > My favorite real world example is "%s has joined the chat room." The gender > may be unknown (they didn't say in their user profile), female, male, and if > you are really thorough and provide for non-human chat participants, > neutral.
At the risk of being off-topic, many human beings affirm their gender as neutral or as another gender that isn't male or female. I'm not interested in starting a lengthy thread on this topic; mainly, I just want to make sure that a comment that potentially implies that some people who read this mailing list and/or participate in this project aren't human doesn't go by unremarked-on. Everyone is welcome to work on Rust, whether or not they identify within the gender binary. (Recommended reading: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2010/11/26/disalienation/ and http://genderqueerid.com/what-is-gq ). If anyone wants to discuss this point further, please *reply sender* and email me privately, rather than replying to the list. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://catamorphism.org/ * Often in error, never in doubt "Too much to carry, too much to let go Time goes fast, learning goes slow." -- Bruce Cockburn _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
