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For me the issue now is not whether Stallman should hold 'leadership' positions or not, it's the fact that the pursuit of his removal from all such positions is
by d_tr 6y ago
For me the issue now is not whether Stallman should hold 'leadership' positions or not, it's the fact that the pursuit of his removal from all such positions is based on heavy accusations which I do not believe to be true (transphobic, ableist, misogynist, and more).
For example, making a stupid joke about women does not mean that there is malintent at play. One could argue that that joke could have negative impact on certain people and this is one thing. Attributing it to misogyny and sexism is something entirely different.
- kazinator 6y agoGet this: Stallman is supposedly transphobic because he refuses to use the "they" pronoun in the singular sense, but instead uses gender-neutral neo-pronouns "person", "per" and "pers". He shortened "person" to "perse". These were first created by a John Clark in a 1972 issue of the Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association. They also appeared in 1976 feminist novel , Marge Piercy's feminist novel, Woman on the Edge of Time. According to the wiki below this is "about a utopian future in which gender was no longer seen as a big difference between people". https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/English_neutral_pronouns#Per https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/English_neutral_pronouns#Per Thus: Stallman uses gender pronouns from an old feminist novel about an androgynous future ... and that is supposed to be evidence of "thinly disguised transphobia". This was written into petition a letter that supposedly intelligent people signed.