[OTR-users] sexist assumptions in README, process_receiving_im()

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 21:37:46 EST 2005


On 12/2/05, David Thiel <lx at redundancy.redundancy.org> wrote:
> When a private conversation is ended, the user is told:
>
> %s has closed his private connection to you; you should do the same.
>
> There are also multiple masculine references in the README. Obviously,
> females are also potential users of using the software.

I hope you are aware that in English when the gender is unknown we use
the masculine.

To quote the resident OTR using female on your complaint "I think it's stupid."




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