• The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
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    It’s so stupid of the developer to claim that gender neutrality is political. It really is not. It’s just about equally respecting everyone. I’m probably preaching to the choir though.

  • deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip
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    Are people here reading the whole mastodon thread?

    it is 200% okay to bully them into submission

    Sounds rather toxic, and also counterproductive.

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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      I think he misinterpreted it as a complaint made on political grounds, when it seems to have been made on the grounds of perfectionism.

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        Not really perfectionism just grammar

        I think the fact that using a neuter pronoun is so charged that we can’t even speak or write our language correctly is insane.

        I’ve written thousands of technical documents, if you are referring to a generic operator / user / whatever the correct term to use is “they.” That’s how you say “the person that I’m referring to that I don’t know anything about”

        There was a brief madness in the 90s when fucking morons used “he/she” for absolutely no reason.

  • jet@hackertalks.com
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    The person doing free labor and providing open source software doesn’t use the preferred vocabulary… Still a net positive, no reason to brigade their issue tracker for wrong think.

    Encouraging the internet to harass a volunteer is low.

    Nothing stopping people from forking the project changing the vocabulary, and maintaining their fork. But that’s more work than drive by hate