Gender [was: Re: Cancel a repeat with a button]

[Bob Sneidar]

My surprise at finding out you were not a man was due solely to the  
fact that I referred to you as "he" once on this list, and was  
promptly corrected by at least 5 people. :-)

Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM

On May 14, 2009, at 8:52 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Jim Bufalini wrote:
>
>> And here I am going on about var naming conventions. I now propose  
>> we have a
>> user naming convention as in mJim and fJacque for male or female. ;-)
>
> I used to use plain "Jacque" in my signature, and everyone thought I  
> was
> a man, which is the primary reason I changed it to "Jacqueline". This
> was way back in the days of bulletin boards, before the web was
> invented, and it was interesting to see how people's responses changed
> when they found out I was female. At the time, women programmers were
> almost unheard of. I let them think I was male for almost a year  
> before
> I dropped the bomb. The double-takes were amusing.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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