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I echo your sentiment. I am not against gender inclusivity but to call out what is essentially innocent language as inherently “bad” is not a good path to go d
by jaitsu 4y ago
I echo your sentiment.
I am not against gender inclusivity but to call out what is essentially innocent language as inherently “bad” is not a good path to go down.
- zzzkkk 4y agoWhere does it say this is language is inherently bad? I'm not sure it does. As members of a software-focused community, can't we look at existing solutions that work okay and strive to make them even better? We all do this quite a bit in code review, for example.
- nullfield 4y agoSome are better, like “fireman” to “firefighter”; in those cases, they generalize a concept in a meaning-preserving manner and simplify. edit I didn’t even see the next comment, that mentioned firefighter, when I wrote this; that makes it all the more to me. Most are identity politics bullshit, and should be resisted.