Comments on: “Guys” is not gender neutral http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/08/24/guys-is-not-gender-neutral/ | social justice | higher education | technology | Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:28:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Blocked by Hotmail » Eric Stoller’s Blog http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/08/24/guys-is-not-gender-neutral/#comment-29473 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:21:52 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/08/24/guys-is-not-gender-neutral/#comment-29473 [...] via the Oregon State University Network Engineering blog: As some of you would know by now, the oregonstate.edu domain is being blocked by hotmail.com. This means that any email coming from our domain will bounce and not be delivered. I just want to give you guys a heads up and let you all know that I am working on getting us delisted from their system. A request has been submitted and I expect to hear back from them in a day or two. [...] […] via the Oregon State University Network Engineering blog: As some of you would know by now, the oregonstate.edu domain is being blocked by hotmail.com. This means that any email coming from our domain will bounce and not be delivered. I just want to give you guys a heads up and let you all know that I am working on getting us delisted from their system. A request has been submitted and I expect to hear back from them in a day or two. […]

]]> by: Erika http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/08/24/guys-is-not-gender-neutral/#comment-29020 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:14:07 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/08/24/guys-is-not-gender-neutral/#comment-29020 Just checked out the link to the older post, and couldn't do much more than shake my head. I like to consider myself moderate in my feminism (although there are news clippings out there somewhere that allude to otherwise, LOL) and while I don't think there was any intention to disrespect females in that listserve posting, I DO think it's unfortunate that a "professional" company would get so 'informal' that they start assuming gender neutrality in phrases and risk potentially pissing off a nice number of possible applicants. I mean, really, how difficult is it to proofread? Snatch up a thesaurus? Seriously... this: "Hey guys, We’re looking for a motivated web developer who loves what he does. " Moves to this: "Hello, everyone! We're looking for a motivated web developer who loves their job." in less than four words. *eyeroll* Just checked out the link to the older post, and couldn’t do much more than shake my head. I like to consider myself moderate in my feminism (although there are news clippings out there somewhere that allude to otherwise, LOL) and while I don’t think there was any intention to disrespect females in that listserve posting, I DO think it’s unfortunate that a “professional” company would get so ‘informal’ that they start assuming gender neutrality in phrases and risk potentially pissing off a nice number of possible applicants. I mean, really, how difficult is it to proofread? Snatch up a thesaurus?

Seriously… this:

“Hey guys,

We’re looking for a motivated web developer who loves what he does. ”

Moves to this:

“Hello, everyone! We’re looking for a motivated web developer who loves their job.”

in less than four words. *eyeroll*

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