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Or we could ask the question in the opposite direction - why would you use language which excluded anybody who doesn’t identify as male from the documentation for an open-source project, to the point where when someone offers to update the language for you your response is to rant about “personal politics” and write a contribution policy which forbids the use of gender-neutral language?

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potustheplant@feddit.nl ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Can you provide an example of this non-inclusive language? I honestly can’t even come up with an example for web browser documentation that would refer to any gender at all.

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- AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  “In case of browser crash, the male, white, cis user should submit a bug report”
  
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  - AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If the user is female, a report should be submitted by her closest male relative.
    
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- SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  To prevent this, remove `anon` from the `wheel` group and he will no longer be able to run `/bin/su`.
  
  As opposed to
  
  To prevent this, remove `anon` from the `wheel` group and they will no longer be able to run `/bin/su`.
  
  github.com/…/beb448fc248f1cbd82a4c68ddf72687203d4…
  
  That’s the example linked to from the thread which started the controversy off: github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814
  
  [Tunas1337]
  
  It’s a minor nitpick, but I think it’s important; assuming the user and/or developer of the operating system is male isn’t exactly the best.
  
  [awesomekling]
  
  |> This project is not an appropriate arena to advertise your personal politics
  
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- thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I don’t know the actual thing that happened but I’m assuming “the user [something] <his/him/he> [something]”
  
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