Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Where an email thread was going on about inviting us to join, using no
> male pronouns, or putting them last.
This is totally and completely missing the point. Nobody objected to
using a female pronoun, nor using she/he.
I for one would have no problem using a female pronoun, and in fact I
often do [1].
This has absolutely nothing to do the issue at hand.
> I know I wouldn't. Yet that's exactly the atmosphere we're fostering
> here.
Except this is disconnected from reality.
1. I know female colleagues who don't want to be treated more
delicately than their male counterparts. And they certainly don't
want unsolicited help, especially regarding hypothetical feelings
they might have towards the use of a pronoun.
2. On the other hand I do know people that lurk the mailing list and
are afraid of expressing their opinions because of fear of reprisals
in this PC-culture climate.
If anybody needs consideration I would side with the real, rather than
hypothetical, people.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/60a66b11d6ffd_2448320885@natae.notmuch/
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Felipe Contreras
