Re: Anything else to declare? (Was: RE: "if that makes any difference")

--- Shaul Vardi <vardi@...> wrote:

> > Anything else I left out?  Synaesthetics?  Southpaws?  Mood
> disorders?
> > Goldfish swallowers?  lucid dreamers......?   :)
> >
>
> OK, so I'll come out of the closet twice - as gay and as left-handed
> (both of which terms I see as shorthand and inadequate references for
> about where I can be found on a spectrum, and not as hermetic
> categories).  I've never *deliberately* swallowed a goldfish.
>
> I encourage anyone who doesn't have a problem with disclosing this
> kind
> of information to do so (especially all you straight right-handers!)
> so
> that the impression created is as representative as possible.
>
> Similarly, like Sally, I would be interested to hear from more women,
> including thoughts about the male domination of the list.
>
> Shaul
>
I'm a straight, right-handed woman who lucid dreams but has never even
accidentally swallowed a goldfish (or even a neon tetra :-). But then,
I'm also a progammer and worked for several years in a group in which I
was the only woman (btw, sharing an office with two men can be...
interesting... especially since I was just "one of the guys"... there
was a time or two when I had to stop them and say "Ok, I really do
*not* want to hear this"). fwiw, I never paid any attention to the
ratio of m/f on the list, and probably would have continued not to if
it hadn't been brought to my attention.

-- JC

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