Mrs Gulliver

2Ross • 2nd Oct 2009 • Learning • blog, business travel, gender, internet, travel, web

I must not have being paying attention to The Economist‘s (excellent) business travel blog because only after reading this post did I shake off my complacent but long-held assumption that Gulliver was male.

Update: After now reading this post, I am assuming that there is more than one Gulliver, or that the name is assumed by any Economist correspondent with a business-travel story.

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John (6th October 2009, 10:57 am).

Don’t beat yourself up Ross – no expert on Swift but Gulliver was definitely a bloke. When I go by my nom de plume Shirley, people often assume I am a woman.
Ross (6th October 2009, 11:03 am).

You’re a man, Shirley? I feel dirty.

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