Leonard Vertighel <leonard.vertighel(a)web.de> wrote:
Am Montag, 19. Juli 2004 07:39 schrieb Anthere:
Leonard Vertighel wrote:
Could you give me an example of a sentence where
you would disclose your
gender as a female, but not as a male? I really can't think of one.
Je suis ing�nieur
Je suis ing�nieure
Nonsense ;-)
if (! female) { male }
There can't possibly be an example simply due to "tertium non datur".
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Hum. Non sense ?
No, I was really serious here.
And I know not what "tertium non datur" is :-)
When I send a resum�, if I write
Anth�re : ing�nieur agronome
Then I can be anyone, man or woman.
In short ing�nieur is usually the term used for male and female gender.
If I write
Anth�re : Ing�nieure agronome
Then, I indicate I am a woman, and very likely, a feminist, since french people do not
often use gendered version.
Ing�nieure is only used for female. Using it is deliberately a political act.
if (! female) { male } is just not true :-)
I personally do not care being an "utilisateur", as it is a general term, which
I consider somehow neutral, just as "ing�nieur".
I fear a bit that adding such delicacies as utilisateur/utilisatrice will probably only
result in longer loading times, and I would prefer that developers work on this wikimedia
project wide communication system :-)
But if some people feel uncomfortable with the male-gender orientation of wiki software,
and very much want to change that, welllll... this is important then :-)
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