Comments on: Three Hits: Gender Binary Edition

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:47:44 +0000

We had that happen in the newspaper here – the President & CEO of our local hospital is a Ms, but when “quoting” her the paper referred to her as “he” and “Mr”. It confused me because part of my job is sending her letters and I thought I must be getting it wrong – not the paper!

Yeah.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:05:53 +0000

I remember what that was like from when I was living in the UK, coz. This sense that I was missing the zeitgeist back home. Took me a while to catch up once I returned.

By: coz

coz — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:14:23 +0000

Fair enough…I’m out of the loop over here sometimes.

By: Lauredhel

Lauredhel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:08:23 +0000

And she’s our head of state, to a first approximation at least – not some obscure minor celebrity.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:25:03 +0000

coz, it’s not an actual episode, it’s a fanfic episode, so no real spoilers – read away!

The journo has no excuse at all – there was more than enough fuss made two whole months ago about “Australia’s First Female Governor General”.

By: coz

coz — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:15:08 +0000

Ohh, haven’t seen that Dr Who episode yet…will.not.read.spoilers.

Not that it excuses the journo on that piece, its their job to check facts.
I would have assumed Quentin was a male’s name, but there ya go, how easy it is to fall into those traps.
I just googled her name and even got a photo, not hard at all.