thread: 2006-04-10 : A problem for feminists/pro-feminists
On 2006-04-10, Roger wrote:
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by a viable solution here, but I'll take a stab at it.
Is it viable to treat them the same? Yes. Yes, at least on the Internet. Why? Because gender is repudiatable on the Internet. Vincent (or "Vincent") can easily claim, accurately and non-ingenuously, that he simply doesn't know, let alone care about, the genders of "Mitch" or "Mary".
He also need not care that Mitch is a dog.
