[mythtv-users] references to "significant other"

[Grant Edwards]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 05:54:59PM +0100, Simon Kenyon wrote:

> stop using your wife/girlfriend/partner to represent somebody
> who is technically illiterate. it is not necessary and in my
> opinion insulting.

So, if somebody wants to change something because his wife
doesn't understand or doesn't like the way it works, he's not
supposed to say that?

I rather think that sounds insulting and implies that one
should be ashamed to trying to do something to please one's
spouse.

> if myth's UI is broken or hard to use or generally not of
> sufficient quality/robustness or is just plainly user
> unfriendly

Well, for one, user-friendly is user-specific.  Something's
that's friendly to one person isn't to another.  I don't see
how it's insulting somebody to say they didn't like the UI.

> then say so and we can work to fix it. don't invoke
> "she who must be obeyed" (as you put it) as a reason.

So If a guy is happy with the UI, but his wife isn't, he
shouldn't say so. He should write that "a person of unspecified
sex with an unspecified relationship to me" doesn't grok this
piece of the UI?

What does that accomplish?

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com