aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) (10/03/84)
I have just noticed one lingering aftereffect of spending my early years in
what was still a very chauvinistic society. One female netter with whom I
have corresponded a little signs her articles and her letters with her first
and middle initials and her last name. Until I saw that the header on a
letter from her showed her actual first name as female, I assumed, from her
use of initials, that she was male. The odd thing is that if I'd seen the
same thing in a phone book, I would have assumed she was female (from the
frequent advice to women to use initials so it won't be immediately obvious
from their directory listing whether they're male or female). Has anyone else
made a similar mistake?
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-- Jeff Sargent
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