[ALUG] linux newbie - help requested

[(Ted Harding)]

On 15-Jan-07 Ian bell wrote:
> [...]
> The other thing I find puzzling in this increasingly PC world
> is that we are still allowed to refer to male and female
> connectors - how sexist is that?

I suppose we could revert to good old Plug and Socket connectors
(indeed USB cables seem to use these terms already).

And then, as PC pressure increases so that "Male" and "Female"
become unacceptable terms for the human genders, we can back
transfer the connector terminology to Men and Women.

(But what should we then call that useful little device the
"gender bender"?)

Ted.

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Date: 15-Jan-07                                       Time: 23:12:25
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