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Why would something with such a good concept need to be tied to a gendered term? How about calling it "camp grounding"?
by barkingcat 6y ago
Why would something with such a good concept need to be tied to a gendered term?
How about calling it "camp grounding"?
- computerphage 6y agoThe Boy Scouts of America did a lot to promote Leave No Trace and helped it become a common practice.
- tremon 6y agoI suggest you take your complaint to the English language office. In Dutch, that organization would be called "padvinders" (lit. pathfinders, i.e. trackers) which shows that the concept itself isn't gendered.
- fastball 6y agoBecause it's a Boy Scout rule?
- disgrunt 6y agoYour suggested term works, too. But why is it bad that a good concept has a gendered term?
- snakeboy 6y agoIt's not appealing to any kind of gendered stereotyping though. It's a quote from the founder of "The Boy Scouts Association".
- MarkSweep 6y agoOne definition of the term in question: https://biratkirat.medium.com/step-8-the-boy-scout-rule-robert-c-martin-uncle-bob-9ac839778385 https://biratkirat.medium.com/step-8-the-boy-scout-rule-robe...
- someperson 6y agoThe non-gendered term for "Boy Scouts" is simply "Scouts" or "Scouting" [1]. So if you need a non-gendered name, just call it "Scouting". And the word 'scouting' already means "moving ahead of a group to gather information", which makes sense in the software engineering context too. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting