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Subject: Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 08:06:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-02-06, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-02-06 11:47 a.m., DFS wrote:
>> 
>> https://news.itsfoss.com/running-linux-in-pdf/
>> 
>> Early in the article and later notes the software developer is named 
>> Allen, but never once says he or him.  Instead says 'they' several times.
>> 
>> Believe you me, I blasted this creep.
>
> And you've just gotten an answer as to why I went back to Windows. The 
> experience is extremely disheartening. I don't want to use Linux if it 
> gives these child predators the impression that I approve of them in any 
> way.

You don't have to go to Open Source sites to find this pronoun stupidity. I 
wonder if DuFuS will be as "forthcoming" when he finds the same garbage on 
pro Microsoft or Apple sites? Something tells me that the silence will be 
deafening.

At least Microsoft's 365 "Woke checker" is still optional (it appears)...

https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/520413787

Microsoft Word's Wokeness checker is asleep on the job

   Microsoft has added a diversity checker to its Office 365 spelling and 
   grammar tool (h/t Tony Thorne (@tonythorne007). You can find it by going 
   to Word’s Preferences menu. Click the Spelling and Grammar option, then 
   Grammar & Refinements. If you check the appropriate boxes in the 
   drop-down menu, Word will scan your writing for age and cultural bias, 
   ethnic slurs, gender bias, gender-neutral pronouns, gender-specific 
   language, racial bias, sexual orientation bias, and socioeconomic bias. 
   The goal is to replace the sensitivity readers that some publishers use 
   to vet manuscripts for conscious or unconscious bias and anything else 
   that might offend an audience.

   I unleashed Microsoft Woke, as its right-wing critics might call it, on 
   some passages about gendered and genderless pronouns to see whether it 
   could read for inclusivity better than a human can.
....

Follow the link (above) if you have any real interest in this crap — it 
might help to also have a strong stomach.   

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien