Are you going to be extensively writing on issues of sex/gender with frequent references to personal experience? No? Then why should anyone care if you’re male or female?
Not sure what relevance katydee’s potential topics of conversation have on whether the username is a social norm violation (and it isn’t a social norm violation standing on its own—although it does give the impression that the user is female).
The question I see being asked is ” is my current username deceptive or otherwise misleading?” not “is my name a social norm violation?” The two are not fully equivalent questions.
When a person writes from personal experience on a topic closely related to sex/gender, a nome de plume that causes some readers to believe that the author is of the opposite sex/gender can (unintentionally) mislead readers by causing a misevaluation of the conditions that created the personal experiences discussed. On the other hand, if a person is writing about, say, Nash equilibria in game theory, their sex/gender is irrelevant to evaluation of what they are writing and so a mistaken impression of sex/gender is not misleading.
are not equivalent. I interpret the first as asking about norm violations.
When a person writes from personal experience on a topic closely related to sex/gender, a nome de plume that causes some readers to believe that the author is of the opposite sex/gender can (unintentionally) mislead readers by causing a misevaluation of the conditions that created the personal experiences discussed. On the other hand, if a person is writing about, say, Nash equilibria in game theory, their sex/gender is irrelevant to evaluation of what they are writing and so a mistaken impression of sex/gender is not misleading.
I agree that a discussion that doesn’t clarify the gender of the writer is problematic. But the original assertion was that katydee was per se a deceptive username.
The questions . . . are not equivalent. I interpret the first as asking about norm violations.
Yes, but katydee didn’t just ask if it was deceptive, he asked, and I again quote exactly, “is my current username deceptive or otherwise misleading”? Why are you persisting in objecting to me answering a question that katydee asked?
Are you going to be extensively writing on issues of sex/gender with frequent references to personal experience? No? Then why should anyone care if you’re male or female?
Not sure what relevance katydee’s potential topics of conversation have on whether the username is a social norm violation (and it isn’t a social norm violation standing on its own—although it does give the impression that the user is female).
The question I see being asked is ” is my current username deceptive or otherwise misleading?” not “is my name a social norm violation?” The two are not fully equivalent questions.
When a person writes from personal experience on a topic closely related to sex/gender, a nome de plume that causes some readers to believe that the author is of the opposite sex/gender can (unintentionally) mislead readers by causing a misevaluation of the conditions that created the personal experiences discussed. On the other hand, if a person is writing about, say, Nash equilibria in game theory, their sex/gender is irrelevant to evaluation of what they are writing and so a mistaken impression of sex/gender is not misleading.
The questions
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are not equivalent. I interpret the first as asking about norm violations.
I agree that a discussion that doesn’t clarify the gender of the writer is problematic. But the original assertion was that katydee was per se a deceptive username.
Yes, but katydee didn’t just ask if it was deceptive, he asked, and I again quote exactly, “is my current username deceptive or otherwise misleading”? Why are you persisting in objecting to me answering a question that katydee asked?