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Re: gender & gentlenessby michellem (Friar) |
on Oct 11, 2003 at 03:09 UTC ( [id://298475]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
As someone who's been posting on perlmonks for a while, and has a decidedly female looking nick (for obvious reasons), this conversation is pretty fascinating. I'm not a newbie anymore, but I have a very interesting sort of process I go through before posting a question to perlmonks. Although I do very much consider perlmonks to be a friendly place, I also tend to try and have all the FMs read before I post, because I don't want to look too much like a dolt (which of course I do fairly often). And I've gotten plenty of RTFM answers in my time, although I've gotten far more helpful and polite answers. In reading perlmonks, I've never noticed a bias. I think that the vast majority of the answers to newbie posts are polite and helpful. And I also want to very much agree with the idea that the way the original question is asked definitely helps to determine the tone of the response, which, actually as it should be.
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