Reged: 12/13/04
Posts: 4490
Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
Quote: I am a he not a she. It strange how some people on this board make assumptions without checking the facts.
as play the odds. In the absence of any information about your gender (I either haven't seen any or haven't remembered any), I was forced to decide how to refer to you. The traditional English practice is to refer to people of unknown gender as "he". I am somewhat uncomfortable with this practice in all circumstances but it seems particularly unwise on the Diet Board. Since some sources report that as much as 75% of IBS sufferers are women and since the vast majority of posters on the IBS Boards are women, it was more likely you were a woman. I could, of course, have referred to you as "s/he" but this form has never achieved wide-spread acceptance and therefore remains jarring enough to divert attention away from whatever points are being made.
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I didn't so much make an assumption...
