> Another marketer asked for Mr. Kerry Chalmers today. I know my name is > unisex, but if you don't know, don't assume.
*blinks* But aren't you flattered that they, you know, actually assumed you might be a man?
Eugh. I don't know. Grind up a few normative assumptions about gender, season with a little Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and I blow a gasket. It's well beyond issue and into volume territory for me, though it's mellowed slightly in the last...
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Date: 2005-04-22 12:55 am (UTC)> unisex, but if you don't know, don't assume.
*blinks* But aren't you flattered that they, you know, actually assumed you might be a man?
Eugh. I don't know. Grind up a few normative assumptions about gender, season with a little Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and I blow a gasket. It's well beyond issue and into volume territory for me, though it's mellowed slightly in the last...
...dammit. Six years. I'm getting old.