Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!nsc!srm From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) Newsgroups: net.women,net.flame Subject: Re: MS/Miss/Mrs. Message-ID: <2249@nsc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 15:17:05 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2249 Posted: Sun Jan 20 15:17:05 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 04:10:31 EST References: <1680@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Reply-To: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 15 Xref: watmath net.women:4159 net.flame:7902 Summary: In article <1680@sdcrdcf.UUCP> barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry & Lee Gold) writes: >Usually I don't use any honorific at all: I just settle for being Lee Gold. >(Or sometimes even Lee Ann Gold.) >I was once in an amateur press association with one jerk who persisted in >calling me "Mr. Lee Gold." And that on the grounds >that he found my writing style somehow intrinsically masculine and refused >to believe I was female. > I have a friend whose gender is not easily inferred from her first name. She won a Rhodes Scholarship, which they took back when they discovered that she isn't a man. -- Richard Mateosian {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPA