Timeline for Policing gender expressions and pronouns
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| Nov 19, 2019 at 13:43 | comment | added | Scott Hannen | It doesn't. I'm pretty much in spectator mode watching bad decisions cause predictable and unpredictable problems. Except it was predictable that there would be unpredicted problems just as big as the ones the original bad decisions addressed, so all of this was predictable. To some of us, anyway. That's my way-too-talky way of saying, yes, I'll stop talking about it in the comments of your answer. :) | |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 13:33 | comment | added | De Novo | @ScottHannen what gets us this post it's people can't just call other people what they want to be called. Instead, they spend a lot of energy worrying about trolls. It's very much like the bathroom debate. Oh no! If anyone can use whatever bathroom they want, predators will come for the women and children! | |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 12:23 | comment | added | Scott Hannen | @DeNovosupportsGoFundMonica That "but" is where it falls apart. If gender neutral was always acceptable - a reasonable compromise - all sorts of problems would vanish. The end. Because it is neutral, "they" does apply to anyone. That "but" gets you this post and everything in it. | |
| Nov 18, 2019 at 22:30 | comment | added | De Novo | @ScottHannen per the faq "they" is a reasonable default, but be prepared to make adjustments if so requested. In other words, "they" doesn't apply to absolutely anyone, but it is a good default. | |
| Nov 18, 2019 at 22:28 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Active reading [<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/French#Noun>]. ("De Novo" is a user name in this context (thus (grammatically) possessive).)
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| Nov 18, 2019 at 20:36 | comment | added | Scott Hannen | I believe that "he" was accepted as neutral, but it really isn't. This is a deficiency of the language. To me there are no good solutions, only less bad ones. Long before this pronoun thing came up I was uncomfortable with always referring to the abstract developer as "he." I'm not saying it's wrong. I just wish the language didn't make me think about something that's irrelevant to what I'm expressing. I don't see a better solution than using singular "they" as a gender neutral pronoun that can apply to absolutely anyone. | |
| Nov 18, 2019 at 9:58 | comment | added | ChatterOne | In my mind the "middle ground" is the "be nice" policy which I think was a really good idea. The problem comes when something that should be an instinctive concept needs to be defined by specifications. We shouldn't expect a policy to make the decision for us if something is a nice behaviour or not. Years ago I worked for a company with 5 core values, and one of them was "Do the right thing". There was no more specification than that because people were expected to ... well, do the right thing. What's happening here is basically micro-managing. | |
| S Nov 17, 2019 at 12:45 | history | suggested | dfhwze | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2019 at 12:03 | history | answered | BelovedFool | CC BY-SA 4.0 |