Talk:Gender of connectors and fasteners

message: A picture is worth a thousand words. As people have posted above, we need more examples. I think the text could probably be reduced if there were a thorough list of labeled pictures of male and female connectors, particularly tricky ones like VGA. —Ben FrantzDale (talk) 23:32, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples 

message: Hi!
I just tried to order D-Sub connectors at a big electronics-shop. They use the "male" / "female" names but also two abbreviations called "SKT" and "PL" at the gender description. I googled a little but could not find any reference, what that stands for. As the had no meaningful images I can only guess, that it stands for "Socket" and "Plug". Perhaps this could be integrated in the article if anyone knows for sure, what the meaning is...
Thanks,
Andy  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.144.1.62 (talk) 15:19, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question on SKT / PL abbreviations 

message: It is somewhat curious that the word 'gender' is used with 'male' and 'female', which are terms denoting sex (whereas 'masculine' and 'feminine' are related but distinct terms for gender). It would be lovely if someone with a background in linguistics of gender could summarise relevant literature on this topic.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.29.4.217 (talk) 17:54, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Sex would definitely be more correct for this article, basically sex is on the body, gender is in the mind.Jackintosh11 (talk) 00:43, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with User:Andy Dingley (who reverted your abrupt changes) that "gender" is the WP:COMMONNAME that is used in serious technical documentation for this topic. Please do not make undiscussed, unannounced, and unsourced major changes to articles in an attempt to conform established usage to your pet philosophy.  Reify-tech (talk) 04:37, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It does need to be changed from gender to sex. This is not a "pet philosophy" as a traitor might call it. It is the scientifically accurate explanation. This is a technical issue. Sex is the word that is used in biology, for example. Usage of gender for a Wikipedia commonname or whatever is simply an error, not an opinion. How do we go about correcting this here and site-wide?  Firebombzero (talk) 20:21, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: "Gender" is used in technical documentation and serious discussions. The word "sex" has too many irrelevant meanings and connotations unrelated to the subject treated here. This is a technical article documenting industry usage, not a political forum for language reform. Your references to "scientifically accurate" and "traitor" aren't very relevant to any useful discussion.  Reify-tech (talk) 20:42, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

text: Reify-tech is correct here: gender is the word people actually use, which is what matters. This article is not about human identity, biology, culture or sexuality. Additionally, the strong distinction claimed between the words sex and gender is both recent and observed only within particular communities. Dictionaries like the American Heritage and Merriam-Webster list sex as the primary definition for the non-grammatical usage of gender. (Words take their meaning from how they are actually used. Technical prescriptions about language are only prescriptive within that technical discipline.) Differentiated usage of sex and gender is clearly growing in popularity, but it is not at present an "error" to use gender to mean sex in a general setting. (This is off topic, but I will also say that I believe you generally harm your cause if you make people feel scolded over things that lack any signs of malice.)  Gerweck (talk) 02:41, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gender vs Sex 

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message: From article on USB: "The female connector mounted on the host or device is called the receptacle, and the male connector attached to the cable is called the plug.[20](2–5 – 2–6) The official USB specification documents also periodically define the term male to represent the plug, and female to represent the receptacle."
From article on USB hardware: "Thus, USB cables have different ends: A and B, with different physical connectors for each. Each format has a plug and receptacle defined for each of the A and B ends. USB cables have plugs, and the corresponding receptacles are on the computers or electronic devices."
This article (Gender of connectors...) should be edited to reflect these standards. Oaklandguy (talk) 23:00, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: , any reason you are unable to WP:DOIT yourself? ~Kvng (talk) 12:50, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  USB connectors, in computing, refer to "plug" and "receptacle" 

message: This article conflates genderless, hermaphrodite, self-mating. Yet, they are 3 different things.
* Sexless  (a.k.a. genderless or agender): a connector that has neither male nor female contacts; it may be self-mating (fig. 1.2a) or not (fig. 1.2c)
* Hermaphrodite: a connector that has both male and female contacts; it could be self-mating (fig. 1.2b) or not (fig. 1.2c)
* Self-mating: a connector whose mate is identical; it can be sexless (fig. 1.2a) or hermaphrodite (fig. 1.2b)
* Non self-mating: a connector whose mate is different; it can be sexless (fig. 1.2c) or hermaphrodite (fig. 1.2d)
If there are no objections, I would like to edit the "Genderless (hermaphroditic)" section accordingly.
Davide Andrea (talk) 21:16, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genderless vs hermaphrodite vs self-mating