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- From: d88pt@efd.lth.se (Peter Tomaszewski)
- Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.221739.13007@lth.se>
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- Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- References: <BtMHCD.Ip@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <BtnKz7.M3J@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <BtnqKz.6tA@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:17:39 GMT
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- In article <BtnqKz.6tA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dmd39855@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel M. DuBois) writes:
- >notarus@uiuc.edu (Mark Notarus) writes:
- >
- >> I'm not exactly known as paranoid, but at the same time, i really see
- >>a need for it. Why a gender flag? So i can tell if you're male or female?
- >>Why? Why can't i ASK you? Am i gonna speak to you different because you're
- >>male?
- >
- >Actually.. I know I speak differently to females than I do to males...
- >Be it telling a dirty joke, or talking about old girlfreinds, or talking
- >about picking up guys, or talking about sports.... pretty much anything
- >in life is handled vastly differntly due to the other persons gender..
- >In any other situation in life, be it in person or on the phone, we
- >have access to this crucial sociological piece of information, why not on
- >irc?
- >
- >How many of you guys greet other guys with: "hugz!" ?
- >
- >-Dan
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- NO, we greet them with *KISS* of course ;-)
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- Seriously, this is a SILLY discussion. A gender flag is a ridicolous suggestion.
- Just TALK to people and get to know them. You'll find out what they are. If you
- are nice to them, they should have no problem teling you if they are M or F.
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- There's no shortcut to friendship anyway.
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- peter
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