Eep. This style of subroutine naming would do my head in, I see the 'when male?' and the natural-language part of my brain takes that as a stand-alone sentance and asks something like "I don't know, when are they male?".

It's the different between 'When raining, put on a coat' and 'When raining? Put on a coat'. The first sounds natural to me, and the second like a bad translation.

Maybe my brain's wired wrongly though.