On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:00 PM, ChaoticFluffy <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hmmm, interesting. I've often wondered whether I would have had a less > pleasant experience fitting into the wiki(p|m)edia IRC channels if I had an > obviously-gendered nick. As it is, I get maybe one random pm a month, if > that, and most of those are of the vague "hi"-followed-by-silence sort. > None that I can remember have ever been sexually explicit, though I think I > might have gotten threats once or twice. Maybe one day I'll run my own > little experiment and masquerade under a clearly-female name and see how > that changes... > > -Fluffernutter > > Heh, You know several people already do that little experiment daily. ;) I know of a couple of male regulars who prefer either gender neutral or female names on IRC. I doubt it changes most people's reaction. Regards Theo
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