I'm game. This will be fun, especially with my pals on Commons ;-)

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On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:27 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Having  just now read through a long paragraph on ANI of a user saying he or 
> she and him or her about an editor, I say, for less complexities sake, let's 
> do it. See what happens. 
> 
> On 9/8/2011 12:48 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
>> 
>> I actually would love to follow the reactions of people when you call them 
>> "she" and you're wrong. How would they reply?
>> 
>> Kaldari says he's been called "she" a number of times! :) 
>> 
>> Sarah
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Recently two users I thought were he's turned out to be she's.  And then
>> I identified a user with a neutral sounding name as a he - though
>> looking again at name, probably is a she.
>> 
>> Then it occurred to me, why assume they are male anyway?
>> 
>> Why not call all neutral user names she from now on?
>> 
>> He is part of she.
>> Male is part of female.
>> Man is part of woman.
>> 
>> Hmmm... how much "trouble" will I get in if I do it??
>> 
>> Carol in dc
> 
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