Found this blog post and found it had more insight into the issues around the dev and the toxicity in FOSS

    • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.org
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      4 months ago

      Your last two paragraphs, especially the last one, feel eerily close to reverse-ism.

      “Reverse-ism” usually refers to “reverse discrimination”. It’s a big trope in far-right circles and ties directly to the “Great replacement” theory.

      It’s unclear what your intentions were when you said this but it felt weird.

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        4 months ago

        The last paragraph was just facetious, to make the point that correcting potentially-discriminating terms can be overdone.

        And the previous, also a bit tongue in cheek, but since I’m contending that it’s petty to fight over the Ladybird dev’s use of ‘he’ as default pronoun, I was essentially supporting other options as a sort of faux balance. If ‘he’ were truly inappropriate here, balancing it with ‘she’ in another project wouldn’t make it okay again. But if it’s just not that big of a deal, except for a dominant bias, then adding diversity elsewhere perhaps settles things a bit, and allows those who feel marginalized to asset themselves.

        Neither is a solid answer! If you don’t agree with me that the bickering over that source code is overblown, fair enough, you can disagree. But I think my point stands.


        By calling reverse discrimination a far-right trope, I presume you mean complaints about reverse discrimination? Or an argument that reverse discrimination solves the problem? (Though I thought that latter was more argued by the Left, under the term ‘positive discrimination’.)

        Either way I don’t think that’s what I meant.

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          4 months ago

          Right, I might’ve been more confused with your previous to last paragraph because using she/her pronoun as ‘default’ was and is a genuine feminist practice in French where gender neutrality is more difficult.

          Anyhow, I would recommend not arguing your points like that - it just kinda smells like bad faith argumentation.

          By calling reverse discrimination a far-right trope, I presume you mean complaints about reverse discrimination?

          Yes, that would be correct. It’s the basis of the Great replacement theory.