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As I and others have previously pointed out [1] foone uses they/them pronouns and feels particularly frustrated when their posts get featured on HN, because use

As I and others have previously pointed out [1] foone uses they/them pronouns and feels particularly frustrated when their posts get featured on HN, because users here seem unable to honor this simple preference of theirs. It looks like they deleted their tweet out of frustration with todays latest round of misgendering. I hope people on HN will learn to respect all members of our community. Yes that involves not assuming every person online is a man! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32978438 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32978438

tbodt 4y ago
I did a quick search on the comments page for "he"+"him" and found nothing referring to foone, and was about to congratulate HN for getting it right, and then thought to scroll to the bottom of the page and found a dozen dead/autocollapsed comments, most including the wrong pronouns. At least they're where they belong.
- brimwats 4y ago
  the hateful comments about them having mental illnesses and so on are also terrible (i.e. noduerme in this thread)
  - tbodt 4y ago
    .oi
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throwawayallday 4y ago
- endianswap 4y ago
  > no one is getting dehumanized [citation needed]
  - throwawayallday 4y ago
  - dang 4y ago
    "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 4y ago
  We've banned this account for ideological flamewar. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
xani_ 4y ago
- jaxbot 4y ago
  Doesn't that broadly seem like a problem? Given the preferred pronouns here are "they/them", which is what people ought to be using if they don't know, the problem stems from people inherently assuming "he/him" for any technical work. That's a problem beyond just trans/gnc issues.
  - deburo 4y ago
    Given that for non-city dwellers, interactions with transgenders are rarer than rare. Given that the assumption that anything non explicitly female is male is still very common. I suspect foone will be dealing with this issue for longer than they’d like.
  - throwawayallday 4y ago

tbodt 4y ago

I did a quick search on the comments page for "he"+"him" and found nothing referring to foone, and was about to congratulate HN for getting it right, and then thought to scroll to the bottom of the page and found a dozen dead/autocollapsed comments, most including the wrong pronouns. At least they're where they belong.

brimwats 4y ago
the hateful comments about them having mental illnesses and so on are also terrible (i.e. noduerme in this thread)
- tbodt 4y ago
  .oi

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throwawayallday 4y ago

endianswap 4y ago
> no one is getting dehumanized [citation needed]
- throwawayallday 4y ago
- dang 4y ago
  "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dang 4y ago
We've banned this account for ideological flamewar. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

xani_ 4y ago

jaxbot 4y ago
Doesn't that broadly seem like a problem? Given the preferred pronouns here are "they/them", which is what people ought to be using if they don't know, the problem stems from people inherently assuming "he/him" for any technical work. That's a problem beyond just trans/gnc issues.
- deburo 4y ago
  Given that for non-city dwellers, interactions with transgenders are rarer than rare. Given that the assumption that anything non explicitly female is male is still very common. I suspect foone will be dealing with this issue for longer than they’d like.
- throwawayallday 4y ago