Re: RMS' girlfriend
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:16:20PM +0000, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:
> Moshe Zadka@lists.debian-devel@14 May 2002 10:31:26 -0000:
> > Considering we have a number of female developers and some gay developers,
> > I think "looking for a GF" is very prejudiced. I suggest "looking for
> > SO".
> >
> SO == Sexual Opposite, right?
I hate getting into this but...
SO is generally accepted as meaning "Significant Other" which is more
"politically correct" than "Other Half" and much less
connotation-forming than "partner" which is often thought of as
homosexual partner even though it isn't that at all.
> Hmm, still not gay-friendly I guess.
Best choice so far.
Unless you have a dropdown for "wants a man" "wants a woman" "wants
noone" "wants a dog" or whatever
:)
D.
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