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I grew up believing that males were Lindsay and females were Lindsey; that was how my friends and acquaintances did it. But since the 1930s are long gone, it's discouragingly pointless to react negatively to spelling errors, gender confusion etc - at least in public. There's just too much of it going on. I like Stephen and find Steven silly, for instance, but public opinion is largely against me, and so what? I get to feel mildly superior, and other people get to feel mildly superior to me! Almost a win-win situation.