also sprach Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@debian.org> [2005.01.31.1258 +0100]: > By the way. Could we please use "gender" in db.debian.org? This is a good idea. To address Helen's concern... this is a problem with the English language. However, it is only a problem ever since feminists identified it as such. 'he' only respresents disrespect of the female gender's role if you want it to. I would say that most every user reading the documents will not care whether the new maintainer is female or male, a talking parrot or a disguising alien, a table cloth or a plant. It's a "new maintainer" in the context of the NM documents, nothing more and nothing less. You have the choice to either bloat every text with the "he or she" and "his or her" stuff, or just deal. I find that political (or whatever) correctness makes texts awkward to read. They provide no benefits other than give the feminists a feeling of success, which is fake anyway. I realise this is flame bait. Please don't. If you want to see gender support in the Debian documentation, check it out from CVS and get going. I doubt people will object. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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