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.
I think it’s pretty stupid of the developer to have that attitude. I think it’s equally as stupid to advocate against using a piece of software because of that, though
nah. if people are going to be shitty like that, they should not be welcomed in tech spaces, no matter their work. their very presence makes others unwelcome, and it's entirely unfathomable to me that people think it's okay to allow this kind of attitude to run rampant in tech. people who hold on to hateful, bigoted beliefs need to be shamed out of our spaces, not given a pass because "well, they made the cool thing...". the queers in our spaces are worth more than these bigoted fuckwits.
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.
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I used to really enjoy his Linux Sucks speeches, but man, not sure if younger me wasn't paying attention or if man went real off the deep end around 2019.