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> Others end up "relicensing" similar to the guy on github, [...] Hmmm... https://github.com/rxrz/exfat-nofuse/issues/5#issuecomment-21393678 https://github.c

• vog 13y ago
  Among all aspects of that discussion, the author's gender is about the most uninteresting detail. "Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as degrees, age, race, sex, or position."
  • yareally 13y ago
    Agreed. I didn't even take the time to find out what their gender was since it's not any related issue. "Guy" was just used in a generic sense[1]. [1] http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/generic-singular-pronouns?page=all http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/generic-s...
    • Svip 13y ago
      I apologise, I am not familiar enough with the usage of 'guy' to know it is generic in singular (I know it is in plural).
      • yareally 13y ago
        No worries :). I just think of it as another way of saying "dude".
        • ars 13y ago
          Bad example because officially dude is also male. The female is dudine, dudette, or dudess. But like like guy, dude because gender neutral in common speech.
          • king_jester 13y ago
            Just to nitpick, guy and dude are not gender neutral, they just happened to be heavily used by the community in general, mostly because people assume users are men by default.
            • Dylan16807 13y ago
              Speak for yourself. A lot of people use it as a real gender neutral.
              • brewski 13y ago
                For a different point of view see http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
                • Dylan16807 13y ago
                  There are two related but subtly different uses here. A word like 'he' is a default, which can lead to problematic implications. A word like 'guy', to some people, is a true neutral, implying gender no more than the word 'somebody'. Even if we were talking about 'he', your link would be out of place. Calling out the use of a gendered default as bad is not in fact another point of view on whether it is the default.
                  • brewski 13y ago
                    I have never heard of a female being addressed as "guy". Phrases such as "hey guy", "what's up guy" and so on have always been directed to a male.
                    • yareally 13y ago
                      Sometimes I will use it in a conversation when referring to a third party unknown to the person I am talking to and the subject's gender has no bearing (like in my first comment). For example, "Oh, I know a guy that knows X," "I know a guy that is a fan of X" or in a less positive manner "That guy just cut me off [on the freeway]!" (since you rarely see who it might be and their gender doesn't matter) I could say "dude" as well, but sometimes dude might be too informal. I could reword it with a number of other pronouns, but it depends on context and whom one is talking to.
• skore 13y ago
  > Fun fact: Females also do stupid stuff. Nah, pretty sure the "I'm a big girl" is just fratboy posturing. Otherwise I agree with the commenter next to me: Breathtaking inanity is the interesting aspect here, not gender.
• dbaupp 13y ago
  > I'm a big girl I believe the key part of this is the "I'm a big X" pattern (i.e. "I'm an adult"), not that the person is female.