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No; unfortunately, this isn't cherry-picked. Unlike with the accused this topic is referring to, Sarah Mei has lots of history you can scroll through. Another i

No; unfortunately, this isn't cherry-picked. Unlike with the accused this topic is referring to, Sarah Mei has lots of history you can scroll through. Another incident involved her attacking an author regarding a book on 'software craftsmanship' because - she claimed - the word 'craftsman' was definitionally sexist. https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/990265064866308096 https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/990265064866308096

onli 7y ago
Okay, now I saw two of the craziest things I ever saw today. Thanks, that clears it up for me. The Linux Foundation seems to be a broken organization.
FireBeyond 7y ago
In that thread, there's a comment, "it's why we call them firefighters, not firemen"... As someone in fire and EMS, around here, among us, including the females (this area has quite probably the highest proportion of females in fire and EMS in the country), there is an inherent pride in the title 'fireman', regardless of gender. To us it implies "I don't 'fight' fire. I am a [man] of fire, who intrinsically understands it, lives and breathes it, and knows how to master (uh-oh) it".
- goatinaboat 7y ago
  Here in Wales all the female firefighters refer to themselves as “firemen” too, and proudly.
  - namirez 7y ago
    > all the female firefighters Good for them! I'm personally agnostic about this, but you sound as if you know them all and you know what they think. It can be tricky to separate ones perception from reality.
    - goatinaboat 7y ago
      By "all" I mean it is the norm. You could perhaps find one who didn't in Cardiff.
- type0 7y ago
  If we are going to change the name for "fireman" - the profession, we need to change "human" to something more appropriate like "homo idioticus" (i realize it sounds both homophobic and ableist), so does anyone have better ideas?

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No; unfortunately, this isn't cherry-picked. Unlike with the accused this topic is referring to, Sarah Mei has lots of history you can scroll through. Another i

by Fellshard 7y ago

onli 7y ago
Okay, now I saw two of the craziest things I ever saw today. Thanks, that clears it up for me. The Linux Foundation seems to be a broken organization.
FireBeyond 7y ago
In that thread, there's a comment, "it's why we call them firefighters, not firemen"... As someone in fire and EMS, around here, among us, including the females (this area has quite probably the highest proportion of females in fire and EMS in the country), there is an inherent pride in the title 'fireman', regardless of gender. To us it implies "I don't 'fight' fire. I am a [man] of fire, who intrinsically understands it, lives and breathes it, and knows how to master (uh-oh) it".
- goatinaboat 7y ago
  Here in Wales all the female firefighters refer to themselves as “firemen” too, and proudly.
  - namirez 7y ago
    > all the female firefighters Good for them! I'm personally agnostic about this, but you sound as if you know them all and you know what they think. It can be tricky to separate ones perception from reality.
    - goatinaboat 7y ago
      By "all" I mean it is the norm. You could perhaps find one who didn't in Cardiff.
- type0 7y ago
  If we are going to change the name for "fireman" - the profession, we need to change "human" to something more appropriate like "homo idioticus" (i realize it sounds both homophobic and ableist), so does anyone have better ideas?