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I see where you are going there, not affirming peoples gender identity can be seen as intolerance. Let me ask you a question. Would you argue the same for nati

I see where you are going there, not affirming peoples gender identity can be seen as intolerance. Let me ask you a question. Would you argue the same for national identity? Would you feel safe in a community where user profiles feature the flag of the country they identify with? Where its normal to name your country with your name? You probably wouldn't want to affirm that, either. It gives "bogus criteria" vibes like from the hacker ethics. You might now understand how i and some others feel about gender identity. Some people want to have a social life without dealing with that. And this isn't accepted by people who want affirmation for their gender expression, regardless of cis or trans. For ¹, i meant it in a generic fashion, as python is not the only project where this happens.

latexr 2y ago
> I see where you are going there, not affirming peoples gender identity can be seen as intolerance. It seems that what you understood from my comment is that not being actively positive about something is being intolerant. That is not what I said, I only touched on neutrality and negativity, not positivity. “Tolerance”, after all, does not mean “active support” but “acceptance”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toleration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toleration Again, there is a large difference between being neutral on something and being against it. > Would you feel safe in a community where user profiles feature the flag of the country they identify with? Where its normal to name your country with your name? Yes? People do that all the time on social media, putting a flag near their name. Sometimes they even do it to support other countries (such as Ukraine). > You might now understand how i and some others feel about gender identity. Not at all. If anything, I’m even more confused. I’m curious why you wouldn’t feel safe in such a community, and why “safe” is the word you chose. What’s the danger? I mean, in the country case I could see a point: there’s tribalism and rivalries amongst countries which can lead to war, but never have I felt unsafe around someone who expressed their gender identity. > Some people want to have a social life without dealing with that. Just recently I spent several days in a group where one person used pronouns fluidly. They were incredibly sweet, positive, good natured, and open-minded. I’m not sure what is there to “deal with”. Perhaps this is related to different countries and cultures. One thing I want to make very clear, especially considering how you stated the previous comment, is that I’m not calling you intolerant, or a bigot, or any other insult. I don’t know you, and it wouldn’t be right to judge you as a human from a single random comment. I am trying to understand your point and what to you is (apparently) scary or wrong about gender identity.
- blueflow 2y ago
  > I’m curious why you wouldn’t feel safe in such a community, and why “safe” is the word you chose. " I hate being judged by whatever gender idea people "assign" me. Bogus criteria. So being around people who are natural at doing it is annoying. Expressing your gender identity signals that you consider it to be significant. Not causation, but correlation. > Just recently I spent several days in a group where one person used pronouns fluidly. Pronouns and names are easy. Its not easy dealing with whatever weird ideas of masculinity and femininity some people come with. Especially if your world is not as pink/blue split as theirs. Some people are chill but more aren't. I think this would be a non-issue if gendered people had more awareness that gender is a) culturally local and b) not everyone does it.
  - latexr 2y ago
    > Bogus criteria. So being around people who are natural at doing it is annoying. Annoyance is a far cry from fear, and you used the word “safe”. While there are people who have good reason to fear those who misgender them (those who do so on purpose and are threatening to them because of it) I haven’t quite seen the case for the reverse. Every group has annoying extremist people and it’s understandable to want to avoid those, but judging a whole community on account of some outliers on a bad day does not seem fair. > Expressing your gender identity signals that you consider it to be significant. Not necessarily. It seems to be more common to see people doing so in solidarity, basically to signal “if you’re the type of person to whom this is important but are afraid to say so, this is somewhere where you can be safe from aggression”. Worth noting that “gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it” so most people express their gender identity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity > Pronouns and names are easy. It's not easy dealing with whatever weird ideas of masculinity and femininity some people come with. This person was non-binary, which is why they used the pronouns fluidly. I don’t see why considering masculinity and femininity to exist on a spectrum is weirder than thinking there’s a hard line. And why do you have to “deal with” it? I’m struggling to understand that part. Every person is different anyway, there are women who do not wear makeup and men who do not like sports, it’s much simpler to not ascribe any behaviour to a gender. > Especially if your world is not as pink/blue split as theirs. While they were good natured, I wouldn’t classify their world in those colours. At the time I met them they were in fact quite fearful for the results of an election in their country. The kind of election were some people would treat them as subhuman. > I think this would be a non-issue if gendered people had more awareness that gender is a) culturally local and b) not everyone does it. Now I’m curious again. Since you’re presumably talking about other people, are you saying that you don’t consider yourself to be gendered or have a gender yourself? That is interesting to me. I invite you to share more on it, I’m not sure what question to ask yet and wouldn’t want to make you uncomfortable.
wodenokoto 2y ago
But you can’t avoid gender identities as long as you are speaking English. There are 3 ways about this: You codify that you remove them from communication. It’s pretty common on HN to say “author”, “op” or “parent” instead of he or she. Many parliaments have similar ways of talking, where you don’t use 3rd person pronouns. Gender identities are assigned to people and they just have to accept it (this could be by a central authority like a government or on-the-fly by whoever is communicating or a mix), and communication can use 3rd person pronouns naturally. Or, people assign their own identities, in which case, other people might have to be told which pronouns to use. Older systems, often still in use by airlines and hotels asks for salutations, but they are problematic as they are both too specific and not specific enough. They tend to require some sort of job or educational background in order to be gender neutral and they are often interpreted as containing marital status information for female salutations (miss vs Mrs) I think it’s weird to say the Python community is excluding you because they went with option 3 and not 1. And lastly I think that saying that a community that asks you to voluntarily add a country sticker to you profile is exclusionary is a more than a stretch.

latexr 2y ago

> I see where you are going there, not affirming peoples gender identity can be seen as intolerance. It seems that what you understood from my comment is that not being actively positive about something is being intolerant. That is not what I said, I only touched on neutrality and negativity, not positivity. “Tolerance”, after all, does not mean “active support” but “acceptance”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toleration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toleration Again, there is a large difference between being neutral on something and being against it. > Would you feel safe in a community where user profiles feature the flag of the country they identify with? Where its normal to name your country with your name? Yes? People do that all the time on social media, putting a flag near their name. Sometimes they even do it to support other countries (such as Ukraine). > You might now understand how i and some others feel about gender identity. Not at all. If anything, I’m even more confused. I’m curious why you wouldn’t feel safe in such a community, and why “safe” is the word you chose. What’s the danger? I mean, in the country case I could see a point: there’s tribalism and rivalries amongst countries which can lead to war, but never have I felt unsafe around someone who expressed their gender identity. > Some people want to have a social life without dealing with that. Just recently I spent several days in a group where one person used pronouns fluidly. They were incredibly sweet, positive, good natured, and open-minded. I’m not sure what is there to “deal with”. Perhaps this is related to different countries and cultures. One thing I want to make very clear, especially considering how you stated the previous comment, is that I’m not calling you intolerant, or a bigot, or any other insult. I don’t know you, and it wouldn’t be right to judge you as a human from a single random comment. I am trying to understand your point and what to you is (apparently) scary or wrong about gender identity.

blueflow 2y ago
> I’m curious why you wouldn’t feel safe in such a community, and why “safe” is the word you chose. " I hate being judged by whatever gender idea people "assign" me. Bogus criteria. So being around people who are natural at doing it is annoying. Expressing your gender identity signals that you consider it to be significant. Not causation, but correlation. > Just recently I spent several days in a group where one person used pronouns fluidly. Pronouns and names are easy. Its not easy dealing with whatever weird ideas of masculinity and femininity some people come with. Especially if your world is not as pink/blue split as theirs. Some people are chill but more aren't. I think this would be a non-issue if gendered people had more awareness that gender is a) culturally local and b) not everyone does it.
- latexr 2y ago
  > Bogus criteria. So being around people who are natural at doing it is annoying. Annoyance is a far cry from fear, and you used the word “safe”. While there are people who have good reason to fear those who misgender them (those who do so on purpose and are threatening to them because of it) I haven’t quite seen the case for the reverse. Every group has annoying extremist people and it’s understandable to want to avoid those, but judging a whole community on account of some outliers on a bad day does not seem fair. > Expressing your gender identity signals that you consider it to be significant. Not necessarily. It seems to be more common to see people doing so in solidarity, basically to signal “if you’re the type of person to whom this is important but are afraid to say so, this is somewhere where you can be safe from aggression”. Worth noting that “gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it” so most people express their gender identity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity > Pronouns and names are easy. It's not easy dealing with whatever weird ideas of masculinity and femininity some people come with. This person was non-binary, which is why they used the pronouns fluidly. I don’t see why considering masculinity and femininity to exist on a spectrum is weirder than thinking there’s a hard line. And why do you have to “deal with” it? I’m struggling to understand that part. Every person is different anyway, there are women who do not wear makeup and men who do not like sports, it’s much simpler to not ascribe any behaviour to a gender. > Especially if your world is not as pink/blue split as theirs. While they were good natured, I wouldn’t classify their world in those colours. At the time I met them they were in fact quite fearful for the results of an election in their country. The kind of election were some people would treat them as subhuman. > I think this would be a non-issue if gendered people had more awareness that gender is a) culturally local and b) not everyone does it. Now I’m curious again. Since you’re presumably talking about other people, are you saying that you don’t consider yourself to be gendered or have a gender yourself? That is interesting to me. I invite you to share more on it, I’m not sure what question to ask yet and wouldn’t want to make you uncomfortable.

wodenokoto 2y ago

But you can’t avoid gender identities as long as you are speaking English. There are 3 ways about this: You codify that you remove them from communication. It’s pretty common on HN to say “author”, “op” or “parent” instead of he or she. Many parliaments have similar ways of talking, where you don’t use 3rd person pronouns. Gender identities are assigned to people and they just have to accept it (this could be by a central authority like a government or on-the-fly by whoever is communicating or a mix), and communication can use 3rd person pronouns naturally. Or, people assign their own identities, in which case, other people might have to be told which pronouns to use. Older systems, often still in use by airlines and hotels asks for salutations, but they are problematic as they are both too specific and not specific enough. They tend to require some sort of job or educational background in order to be gender neutral and they are often interpreted as containing marital status information for female salutations (miss vs Mrs) I think it’s weird to say the Python community is excluding you because they went with option 3 and not 1. And lastly I think that saying that a community that asks you to voluntarily add a country sticker to you profile is exclusionary is a more than a stretch.