On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:13:12PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > 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. If you don't want to get flamed, try to make a point of reading the thread you're replying to, as using "he or she" was *not* the suggestion of the woman (which I guess is what you mean by "feminist") who started this thread. Onward in the noble fight for singular they, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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