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Shouldn't this project be deeply offensive? Some people consider pronouns deeply personal and it is disrespectful to use the wrong ones.
by thescribe 10y ago
Shouldn't this project be deeply offensive? Some people consider pronouns deeply personal and it is disrespectful to use the wrong ones.
- hephaestos 10y agoJust like race or species can be deeply personal and an important part of one's identity, so is gender. However, I think we can agree that we don't need/want separate pronouns to identify our and others' race. So why gender? It is true that pronouns can be deeply personal, and that is one reason you might want to make them gender neutral. This proces does not strip anyone of (part of) their identity; it does liberate people who do not fall into the gender binary, or who think that gender--much like race--should not always have to be specified. People can of course still be ladies and gentlemen if that is how they wish to identify.
- thescribe 10y agoSo it's not wrong to intentionally misgender people or erase their gender?
- niftich 10y agoNo, as this project essentially runs a client-side search and replace and the results are only visible to the person running the user-agent. It hinges entirely on the behavior of the person using this tool to use its output in a way others find offensive. A benevolent use of this tool would be to batch-replace gendered terms in documentation [1]. [1] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Libuv_gendered_pronouns_patch_dispute http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Libuv_gendered_pronouns_p...