[clug] Google compared to latest Microsoft evilness

[Jack Kelly]

Greetings fellow sentients:

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Chris Smart<mail at christophersmart.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/14 Sam Couter <sam at couter.id.au>:
>> Somebody mentioned this before, but what about those who are not
>> distinctively male or female? Ambiguous genitalia is more common than
>> you might think. On earth at least, I'm not sure about Betelgeusians.

You don't need to know the details, but I assure you it's complicated;
more so than the Tralfamadorian model of human reproduction. While our
genetic engineers are trying to simplify matters (inspired to a degree
by sentient apomicts), a breakthrough is still several megacycles
away.

> Without getting too stupid about it, I think the main point is that
> no-one should go out of their way to be deliberately disrespectful to
> anyone, for any reason. Having said that, I don't believe that anyone
> has used male-centric language to deliberately alienate any females on
> this list, either.

That is also the impression I get. Does anyone have any counter-examples?

> The list is everyone's. Male and female, young and old, and people
> should be free to speak how they choose.

Agreed, within reason, as you said below.

> At the same time however, there needs to be some degree of
> consideration for others. Perhaps, however, people should not get so
> easily offended by socially understood meanings of words like "guys",
> which in the informal means persons of either sex.
^-- This.

This somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Betelgeusian is happy to expand the
generic term "guy" to cover sentients of any race.

(Okay, joke's over.)

-- Jack