[PostOnce]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Uemura

This man has won the People's Honour Award for climbing the highest mountains on 5 continents and being the first man to reach the north pole solo.

So Naomi is not necessarily a dead giveaway, you guys really split hairs and raise hackles over just about nothing worthwhile. Mistaking someone's sex is not a massive deal.

I used to have on my team a guy named Joan (pronounced joe-an) who spoke really softly, so his potential new employers would call me for a reference asking about "she" and "Joan", I'd gently correct them so as not to embarass him on any phone interview in the future. Nobody needed to throw a fit over an honest mistake.

Coincidentally, that guy was the best programmer I ever employed.

Anyway, just one of many counterexamples to a non-issue.

[ParetoOptimal]

Does finding an instance of a male named Naomi really convince you that Naomi is not typically a female name?

[PostOnce]

Yes. There's a whole article about the given name, which says it is unisex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_(given_name)#Japanese

And this is on top of calling someone else out for presuming something... and here you all are presuming that Naomi is a feminine name.

We're making a mountain out of a molehill here. This is a persistent and pernicious problem in society at large now. What is the actual point of calling out any POSSIBLE perceived remote slight that you really have to perform mental gymnastics in bad faith to even arrive at?

There was no malicious intent on the part of the original poster, and yet they are excoriated for nothing?

What a massive amount of spare time we all have to waste.

Especially when it is a unisex name.

We could be doing something to better our world, and we spend time _on this_. We do it every day on a massive scale. It's so tiring, so wasteful, and so lamentably useless when there are so many useful and actually kind things we could be doing, instead of just virtue-signalling fake empathy on the internet that amounts to nothing.

[nottorp]

Tbh he could just not have read the name... I certainly skipped it on the first read.