Fabian Schölzel wrote: > Hi rhn, > > i understand your point of view. Everybody should do as he wish. But i > think if somebody wants to give that gift to everybody, he should be > "allowed" to do so, while others are free to say "no thanks, i don't > want to know". For my self, i think it is some kind of different to > your way, but in the end, it comes out the same. The people that know > me most, are the people i like most. That is so, because i spend more > time with people i like, therefore i talk more with them than others. > That is why they know more (or/and deeper). I would tell others the > same stories and infos about me, in the same deepness - if they are > interested. The topic and the deepness will change with the people and > they're interests, of course. > > But then again, "teh interwebs" is different. One can be as verbose as > he likes, and others can read what they like.
I agree with you, Fabian. However, I think you should use “he or she” instead of using masculine pronouns as if they were sex/gender-neutral. This subject is covered in Ellen Spertus’s 1991 paper titled “Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists?”: <http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/pap/pap.html> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
