[UbuntuWomen] Gender and email [was: Free Ego :)

[Fred H Olson]

On Sat, 3 May 2008, Kadambari Devarajan wrote:

> First things first. Do excuse my absence from the list since the intro.

I started this thread and have alternately regreted my post and been
impressed by the thoughtful replies.  I too have felt that I should have
responded already but tho I have composed many lines in my head this is
the first that I've typed anything in reply.

> I was totally dumbfounded to find that a simple
> intro had triggered such a lengthy discussion, and on so "Off topic". This
> was definitely not something anticipated when I joined the list.

My reply was made in a moment of introspection and made here because I
felt the list was open and welcoming and might have an interesting
perspective on the topic of Gender and email.

I never felt that the gender of writers was fundamental, or "important"
and in that sense "does not matter".  On the other hand I do think there
are more subtle aspects of understanding that gender might shed light on.
Tho it may be that those subtleties are usually too subtle for email.

> To answer Fred - I'm female, which I'm sure you found out after that
> rigmarole of visiting my blog and much googling.

I did NOT google Kadambari Devarajan's name (or anything related).
I did search Wikipedia for Kadambari ( first name only --
probably should have used Wiktionary but at that time that was
not as easy to do on my system).  I also browsed her blog
using the url included in her message.  I did not think
either of those amounted to "rigmarole" or "cyber-stalking".
Just normal curiousity.

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Ireene-Sointu wrote:

> And Octavia Butler is dead now.

Thanks for mentioning that, I was not aware she had passed.
Apparently related to a fall at age 58 :(  I found several of her novels
memorable.

Fred  who is male as I mentioned in my intro on this list
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2008-April/001490.html
on 4/12/08 a few weeks after I subscribed.

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