jdow <j...@earthlink.net> writes: > As a woman engineer, retired, after many years in industry even "gents" > does not bother me. It goes with the territory. And if I had a dollar > for every time I heard "you guys" from a woman talking to other women > I'd be almost as rich as poor man Biden. > > Political correctness has no place in engineering. Clarity of > communications is a basis of the craft. When you disrupt it things > break. (eg Mars landers)
I agree, but when you ban blacklist and whitelist, it is a bit inconsistent when you not also take care of the gender terms. To be honest, I think the gender terms have a better case to be changed as blacklist and whitelist. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
