[THC] QUEEN OF BEERS entries due now through Oct 15th.

[Sean Terrill]

Quoth Dr L Swihart (swihart at purdue.edu) at 27/09/07 07:45:

> Hey -- if you read the whole eligibility rule you saw that a male is
> allowed to have TOUCHED the bottle in order to cap it.  Well, hmm.
> Maybe not.  Maybe the "person of female gender" has to hold the bottle
> while the "person of male gender" (I prefer "person with a Y
> chromosome") operates the capper!

While I agree that "gender" is vague, I don't think you want to discriminate
of the basis of karyotype either. Sure, 99% of people with Klinefelter's
Syndrome self-identify as "male", but do you really want to exclude the
other 1%?


-- 
Sean Terrill
Applied Intelligent Systems Laboratory
School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University