Not an appropriate post for technology. You should be posting this in open source and libre-culture relevant community. Speaking strictly on the project, they have lost most of the support from to-be future contributors who happen to be queer. And certainly, Shopify and other organizations won't let this slide.
Yeah, this is the wrong place to post this. It's tangential at best to technology as whole.
That being said, it is an important issue, and I would suggest posting it in the places another user suggested.
I have a whole mini diatribe about formal english vs colloquial and how formal will eventually catch up on this matter, but this isn't the C/ for it. So holla at me if/when you post it elsewhere and you're interested in that take.
Please point out the actual transphobia? You can't just use that word willy-nilly.
Here is my explanation:
Situation: User asks for gender inclusive language reasoning not everyone is male. Dev responds saying that the user is trying to advertise their personal politics in the project pull-request, suggesting that by personal politics they mean "inclusive pronouns".
Reason it is transphobic: Note the Dev does not mention cis women, they dont mention women at all (but it isn't like women are accused of pushing an agenda related to inclusive language). It is heavily implied to be trans people because of the dogwhistle language. Trans people are the main targets who are accused by others of pushing an agenda when it relates to personal pronouns. At the very least it is male-centric, which apparently from the context of the PR was making some contributors uncomfortable. If the Dev had said, "I got other more important stuff to do, someone edit the text and request a merge", no one would be talking about it. It was his immediate 0 to 100 response accusing the user of pushing a political agenda. They dont need to say the words "I am transphobic" to say something transphobic.
Not an appropriate post for technology. You should be posting this in open source and libre-culture relevant community. Speaking strictly on the project, they have lost most of the support from to-be future contributors who happen to be queer. And certainly, Shopify and other organizations won't let this slide.
Yeah, this is the wrong place to post this. It's tangential at best to technology as whole.
That being said, it is an important issue, and I would suggest posting it in the places another user suggested.
I have a whole mini diatribe about formal english vs colloquial and how formal will eventually catch up on this matter, but this isn't the C/ for it. So holla at me if/when you post it elsewhere and you're interested in that take.
additional transphobia https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/8046#issuecomment-860350155
Please point out the actual transphobia? You can't just use that word willy-nilly.
Here is my explanation:
Situation: User asks for gender inclusive language reasoning not everyone is male. Dev responds saying that the user is trying to advertise their personal politics in the project pull-request, suggesting that by personal politics they mean "inclusive pronouns".
Reason it is transphobic: Note the Dev does not mention cis women, they dont mention women at all (but it isn't like women are accused of pushing an agenda related to inclusive language). It is heavily implied to be trans people because of the dogwhistle language. Trans people are the main targets who are accused by others of pushing an agenda when it relates to personal pronouns. At the very least it is male-centric, which apparently from the context of the PR was making some contributors uncomfortable. If the Dev had said, "I got other more important stuff to do, someone edit the text and request a merge", no one would be talking about it. It was his immediate 0 to 100 response accusing the user of pushing a political agenda. They dont need to say the words "I am transphobic" to say something transphobic.
They can, do, and will keep doing so. Damaging projects and efforts in the process.