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The bit about using a gender as an example of an attribute that never changes doesn't seem like a specifically male error. I'm sure there are any number of wome
by cmiles74 16y ago
The bit about using a gender as an example of an attribute that never changes doesn't seem like a specifically male error. I'm sure there are any number of women who would also make the same mistake and I don't think it's about gender, it's about assumptions that we all make. An equally good example is the way people store names of people in databases.
This list and the parent article are both, in my opinion, way off base. Some people are juvenile and obnoxious and we can pick them out of a crowd by this very behavior. Turning around and telling everyone else in the room that they are just as juvenile and obnoxious is unreasonable and unfair. Part of being an open group is letting pretty much anyone who's interested into the room.
I can understand why many of these criticisms would be characterized as whining. Some of these items seem like nitpicking when compared to some of the very real injustices that women face in the workplace, for instance, the fact that they aren't paid the same wage for the same work. Better curation of this list might help ameliorate that issue.