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

[J. Landman Gay]

Lynn Fredricks 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.
> 
> I completely understand :-)

I thought of you. :) I still have to figure out Shao Sean. The only 
thing I remember is that his/her name is backward to Western 
conventions. English needs a non-gender human pronoun.

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