[Wikipedia-l] One last word about user genders (was:sco/fiu-vro in danger..)

[Tony Sidaway]

Delphine Ménard said:
> On 5/26/05, Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
>
>> On English Wikipedia (dunno about the others) there is a facebook page
>> where you can put your photograph if you want people to know stuff
>> like gender (or you can just say "I am male" or "I am female" on your
>> user page).  In general it doesn't make much difference, though, and
>> is not relevant to use of Wikipedia.  I've managed perfectly well for
>> about a decade usually roleplaying female online, and nobody ever
>> knows if I don't want them to know.  Even those who do know tend to
>> forget, such is the power of illusion.
>
> An illusion much harder to maintain in a language like French for
> exemple, where many times I will have to use a female form of a past
> participle or an adjective and give myself away ;-). It is quite an
> interesting thing to note , that English is  language with which it is
> much easier to hide your gender than with many other languages.

Ce n'est pas difficile devenir française, j'en suis certaine. ;)