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In the conclusion to his Parasound Halo A 21+ review Kal writes about "an amp designer imposes her will". Is there a rogue female copy editor at Stereophile, is Kal fed up with always applying masculine terms to hi-fi or has John Curl been re-assigned?
13DoW
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Why don't they call them himacanes?
Hurricane is from the Mayan for EVIL. Or the God of Evil.
Spanish adopted and slightly changed the word.
NOT a gender-thing.
Too much is never enough
I prefer 'they',myself, for a gender neutral pronoun.
nt
For the same reason the term "Hell hath no furry like a man scorned" is never said.
And "his/her" is clumsy, insufficiently inclusive and implicitly hierarchical. Consider it a random choice.
I recall a time whereby one could say "She has discriminating taste"
The mongrelization of our mores will continue because REAL morality is ebbing away.
"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.
"Trannie Grannie Dwarf Fetish" comes to mind.
That's a name of a song, by the way.
For the record and for the sake of accuracy, just how many female amp designers have you met over your career in hi-fi? Just curious who they were and if I missed or forgot something.
n
Which one is "Francine"? LOL
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I just remembered one. EveAnna Manley, who I met at a Stereophile High-End Hi-Fi Show some 15-20 years ago.Cool lady. Bought a t-shirt like the one she's wearing from her.
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She married into the business but has made it her own. Don't think she designs anything. I am in semiconductors and female circuit designers are not common. I expect female audiophile designers to be even rarer because that requires being doubly geeky.13DoW
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When I worked for a semiconductor manufacturer, our engineering staff was maybe 1/3 female.
And in any selection, some were good and others not so good....just like the men.
Lots of female technicians, too, with a few real good ones.....But not so much in the fix-it end of
things where I can think of but ONE lady mechanic, and she was a star.
Too much is never enough
Though ungrammatical even the conservative JC of the back page of the TLS says it's ok in a discussion of the pronoun issue (Jan.31).
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As a gender-neutral singular pronoun, they/them/their goes WAY back before the 18th century pedants who called it ungrammatical.
One of my former English professors (female, btw) proposed the all-inclusive s/he/it.
That's the kind of conversation I was hoping for.
Was the usage you are referring to similar to the French tu/vous?
Hey Duke, Stereophile just hired Julie Mullins who writes for Absolute Sound...Mark
The correct address for a Duke is 'your grace'. As I am not a real Duke (spoiler alert) you are excused. But, I do insist you genuflect as you hit 'post message'.
Regards,
13DoW
John Curl had a sex-change operation?
OK, not likely, but in could happen.
that's what I was hinting at with 'reassigned'. I am sure it is just Kal having a laugh. We know that women have much better things to do than design audiophile amplifiers.
13DoW
Is there a well known amplifier designed by a woman? Just curious.
Bill
That ought to raise some local blood pressure. Nyuk, nyuk.
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I thought tube design was take a few components, arrange them in all possible permutations and see which you like best?
Some forums have a 'duck for cover' emoji. Please imagine I have employed it here:)
Regards,
13DoW
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