The hyperbole here is insane. My trans friend’s Japanese parents are supportive of him, but they have some trouble with pronouns. If you’re not a native English speaker and learned the standard pronouns, then I think it’s just naturally too confusing. Pretty much all of them are translating in their minds in real-time.
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pogmommy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days agoYou’re right, words are meaningless and language has no bearing on society at large. after all, fuiebt eidiowb rhe efifo quifopim.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
The hyperbole here is insane. My trans friend’s Japanese parents are supportive of him, but they have some trouble with pronouns.
Can you really not understand that we’re talking about two completely different situations?
Scrollone@feddit.it 3 days ago
There’s a big difference between negating the existence of people and what happend in this case, i.e. somebody writing a comment (only visible to him and other developers) using the male form.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Disclaimer: I’m not a software engineer or anything, and while I can usually figure out how to install something from git, that’s as far as my understanding of the platform goes…
Was it an unnecessary edit? Sure, maybe. Hell, could have just been someone trying to get a reaction (mission accomplished). That does not mean that the edit was incorrect in any way (gramatically, syntax-wise, etc.) or political. It’s just someone being annoying.