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Minor point: lots of commenters here are defaulting to male pronouns for the author. In this Dezeen article, for which they spoke to Kasey, they use she/her pro
by crabmusket 2y ago
Minor point: lots of commenters here are defaulting to male pronouns for the author. In this Dezeen article, for which they spoke to Kasey, they use she/her pronouns. https://www.dezeen.com/2017/07/20/kasey-hou-reduce-electrical-waste-flatpack-repairable-toaster-design-graduates/ https://www.dezeen.com/2017/07/20/kasey-hou-reduce-electrica...
- aussieguy1234 2y ago[flagged]
- razille 2y ago[flagged]
- userbinator 2y agoI think a lot of people just don't pay attention to the domain name or anything else besides the actual content.
- razille 2y agoI agree that much of this is unconscious bias. But it still grates.
- smm11 2y ago[flagged]
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoBut not that's not the case for many of us. We do know who we are, and an increasingly violent sect want us to bury it and pretend otherwise.
- nicbou 2y agoI do think it matters that people default to male. I wouldn’t want people to keep calling me “she” because I happen to be in a woman-dominated field. I understand why one would find this grating.
- aussieguy1234 2y agoI see, I guess this is the other scenario where wrong pronouns can be used.
- nar001 2y agoProbably not intended as such but "actual female woman" is also a bit disrespectful, since it implies that trans women aren't "actual female women", why not use cis? It gets your point across and doesn't imply anything else.
- mrweasel 2y ago> why not use cis? Because some people don't use that term to describe themselves either, even if that is what they biologically are. CIS is a pretty good term, because it's very technically correct. Sadly many have been on the receiving end of debates where it is used a a slur, and considers it hurtful.
- nar001 2y agoDo people consider it hurtful, or was it coopted as a slur by people like Musk who just want to erase trans people?
- mrweasel 2y agoPersonally I mostly see it used in anger, so I wouldn't use it, unless doing a biology report. It also has the weird problem that you mostly see it in a "do you identify as cis", which I at least don't... I am cis, but that's not question. This leads to some really weird situation where you have teams of larger middle age straight, and cis, men, but you have one or two that answer that they don't identify as such. This is very much off topic, but I'd personally I'd prefer that we just stop labeling people. Just use their name, it's fine, you don't need to know or even understand the gender of the person who makes a repairable flatpack toaster. It's an cool project regardless of who made it.
- janto 2y agoI 90% agree with you, except that there is nothing technically correct about the word cis.
- Dig1t 2y ago
- dominicrose 2y agoThen why do we even talk about "pronouns" and don't just say: "BTW she's a woman not a man." Simpler times.
- stavros 2y ago> I mean it's bad enough that most people in this thread saw a cool engineering project and made a default assumption of male. Is your issue with the fact that people assumed the author was male, specifically, or with the fact that people assumed at all?
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- StevenWaterman 2y agoShe is a cis woman.
- InDubioProRubio 2y ago[flagged]