[sp332]

Well I read down to the heteronormative bit. But this part: I am going to go to the About Us page, and I am going to see that the database engineer’s name is Ms. Destinnee Chang-O’Driscoll. Then, I am going to paste a giant grin on my face, take a selfie, email it to that woman, and thank her for kicking ass at SQL. I'm not saying that won't happen, but it seems that you think only a woman with a similar problem will make a website that works. Maybe you meant something different.

[tarahmarie]

"This isn’t just a female problem; people with apostrophes and commas in their names all have this problem." I understand that I focused on my problem. It's my blog, after all. However, I did marry a guy with a space and two capital letters in his name. My friend has a ", Jr." to contend with. Try that on for size. Two different punctuation marks, a space, and a capitalized letter. There's a reason I said this isn't just a female issue.

[dubfan]

But you waited until the 7th paragraph to mention that. By that point you had already framed the argument as being a female issue. Not only that but you dismiss it by saying "this isn’t something that often happens to men." It's not something that often happens to women either. Most people in English speaking countries do not have hyphens or spaces in their names.

Your point is totally valid and important but it would have been much more effective if you framed it in a gender-neutral way.

[sp332]

"More effective"? It's a post on a personal blog, not a manifesto.