[Foundation-l] Editors survey and gender

Casey Brown lists at caseybrown.org
Wed Mar 23 19:14:51 UTC 2011


On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:37 AM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> Given the recent uproar at the discovery that the User namespace has been
> mislabeled for female editors for years, I would think that appropriately
> addressing people who have volunteered to take a (lengthy) survey would be a
> high priority.

It wasn't "mislabeled", why would you think that it was?  The nouns in
many languages have genders, and the default for that case is almost
always male.  It's not very fair, but females are used to it. :-)  It
certainly wasn't "mislabeled".

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Casey Brown
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