"Rockwell, Christi" wrote:
> I've found in certain forums it's helpful to have ambiguous names. People
> tend to make assumptions about your background or beliefs based on gender.
> I remember one person on alt.abortion trying desperately to figure out
> whether I was male or female.
>
> My kids both have gender neutral names. It was much easier to think of one
> name than to have to come up with different names depending on if it was a
> boy or girl. :-)
Don't you think gender-neutral naming is a patch/bandaid on the greater issue
of stereotype and bias? This is not a critisism. I'm making an observation.
abs
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