From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 06:49:22 MDT
KPJ wrote:
>
> It appears as if Cynthia wrote:
>
> |Not alienating women is good. But I hate it when guys feel that
> |they have to tip toe around me, and I hate it even more if they
> |treat me like a neuter.
>
> I am not interested in what kind of genital equipment a mailing list entity
> possesses, until such a time when I meet it in real-time, and thus mating
> with it becomes a non-zero possibility.
I generally try to avoid invocation of gender-specific cognitive
routines in myself or the reader. But she could also mean that she
doesn't like it when guys who treat other guys as male treat her as neuter.
...
I can recall precisely one circumstance under which the physical
characteristics of an Extropian became relevant; someone protested the
term "black goo" and I asked whether he was black and personally
offended, in which case I'd stop using it, or if he was non-black and
politically correct, in which case I'd tell him to stick his elbow up
his nose.
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