[Gendergap] study about gendered names and IRC

[Theo10011]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:00 PM, ChaoticFluffy <chaoticfluffy at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hmmm, interesting. I've often wondered whether I would have had a less
> pleasant experience fitting into the wiki(p|m)edia IRC channels if I had an
> obviously-gendered nick. As it is, I get maybe one random pm a month, if
> that, and most of those are of the vague "hi"-followed-by-silence sort.
> None that I can remember have ever been sexually explicit, though I think I
> might have gotten threats once or twice. Maybe one day I'll run my own
> little experiment and masquerade under a clearly-female name and see how
> that changes...
>
> -Fluffernutter
>
>
Heh, You know several people already do that little experiment daily. ;) I
know of a couple of male regulars who prefer either gender neutral or
female names on IRC. I doubt it changes most people's reaction.

Regards
Theo
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