On 5/26/05, Tony Sidaway
<minorityreport(a)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. ;)