SerenityOS and LadyBird: Projects gone wrong with, you guessed it, far right, woman hating, transphobic weirdos.

Found this blog post and found it had more insight into the issues around the dev and the toxicity in FOSS

  • Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    8·
    5 months ago

    On top of that, ‘he’/etc has been effectively gender ambivalent for a long time

    Appeal to tradition bias

    I understand the desire to change that, but it’s still a normal thing in English language.

    So is singular ‘they’.

    The rest of your post is just a slippery slope argument.

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
      5·
      5 months ago

      Appeal to tradition bias?

      Yes. Turns out languages work by saying things the same way somebody else said them before.

      My point isn’t that there can’t be a reason to change. My point is calling ‘he’ out as implying misogyny on the part of the author is ridiculous, and fussing over changing it is, in this situation, in my opinion, petty.

      So is singular ‘they’.

      Indeed. Some English contexts are used to defaulting to ‘he’ for ungendered animate; some to ‘they’. Neither necessitates an egregious humanitarian wrong.

      The rest of your post is just a slippery slope argument.

      I did get facetious toward the end. If you like, you don’t have to build your life philosophy on the foundation of the logical integrity of my closing paragraph. Up to you.

      • AbsentBird@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        I thought they gave a pretty good rebuttal in regards to the singular ‘they’. Just because they mentioned a fallacy in the begging doesn’t mean it’s an argument from fallacy.