On 9/18/00, at 12:25 PM, Barbara Lamar wrote:
>Another good thing about email is that the potential exists to avoid
>being identified as a particular sex. Many women I've talked to (in
>fact, I believe every woman I've ever talked to about this has had this
>experience) have reported the following sort ot thing:
Your examples are of in-person interactions, but I understand it's common
in other contexts. For example, in how manuscripts are treated by scientific
journals or publishing houses.
(OTOH, in publishing, there are genres whose authors are presumptively female.
Male authors have to hide behind a pseudonym.)
(Also, I have been in several situations where I was not welcome, or was
not treated equally, because I am male. I do not claim that the converse
problems are of equal significance to those experienced by women but they do
exist.)
For you and other women in the group:
Does the differential behaviour Barbara describes occur in all situations?
If not, what factors (context, gender mix, education level of participants,
your age or age of other participants, etc.) seem positively or negatively
correlated with this? Or, more plainly, where have you been treated the
best/worst, and do you have any ideas as to what made the difference?
Do you see the same thing on-line? How does extropians compare with other
online groups and with the physical world? Have you tried participating with
a male or indeterminate-gender persona? What differences in treatment did you
notice, if any?
Emlyn, Robin, and others with names of indeterminate gender:
What have you noticed about these issues through having a name that leads you
to be mistaken for female? Did the way you were treated change when they
learned you were male?
-- David Lubkin.
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