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          No, it wasn’t. You might say that the issue was sidestepped, because it says “it”, rather than “they”, now.

          I guess it was an overreaction by mastodon, though. Even if I understand the initial criticism.

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        Jumping to transphobic and misogynistic for not wanting to use inclusive language in some repo documentation is a big jump. He didn’t ever dead named anyone or refuse to use some person preferred pronoums. Its just not wanting to use inclusive language on documentation. Most, if not all, documentation I have ever read in my life don’t use the newest trend of inclusive language.

        By they way accusations were written it seemed like devs were actually exposing hate speech or something like that.

        Let’s not be like that, ok? At least I choose not be like that. You can destroy people lives with such accusations over basically nothing, be better.

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          I’ve seen some inclusive tech docs in which they (ha!) use “she” instead of “he” or “they.” I thought that was cool.

          Are people writing “she” instead of “they” misogynistic and transphobic too?

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            Are people writing “she” instead of “they” misogynistic and transphobic too?

            There’s no such thing as “reverse racism”, “misandry”, etc. That’s not how systemic oppression works.

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              Right, “reverse racism” and “misandry” are just plain ol’ prejudice.

              I guess it’s up to you whether you think being prejudice is only bad if you belong to the group systemically in power, or if you think being prejudice against someone for the circumstances of their birth is bad regardless of either party’s systemic stature, but we should be correct in our use of language.

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            I also try to use the feminine as neutral instead of masculine. -Note: I’m Spanish so our language is heavily gendered- Mostly because I think that sounds better than the trend of using a newly introduced neutral gender that sounds terrible because Spanish language never had neutral.

            Also if someone gets angry for that I have always the reply “now you know a little on how women fell during all story”

            But still, neutral and inclusive language is still too new and far away from normalization to get mad at people on how they use it or not use. And if you are not deadnaming or deadgendering (is that a word?) you are not really hurting anyone.