I went with “workgirl” for this post as a protest against the name “workman”
Maybe I am missing something, but if the point is that gender is a scam, why change the name to a different gender? Was the point not to remove the gender? I’m probably thinking too hard about it.
In terms of language, I think a lot of the gender focus has to be blamed on our Indo-European heritage: You could not say a noun without giving it a gender. Although eroded away in English, it’s still in the personal pronouns (he/she), and desperately neutral uses of words like “person” and singular “they” are an afterthought (whereas “it” is the old neuter pronoun).
That said, I think this keyboard layout is clearly feminine – it has “GYNE” (Greek: “woman”) printed on it ;-)
I’ve flagged this as off-topic. While I agree for the most part with the article, it doesn’t really have too much meaty technical content – just one person forking a project, renaming it, and writing about it with a call for political action. It’s more suited for HN or Reddit, IMO.
It strikes me as a technical howto about using your computer the way you want to. If the motivation were not gender equity but libera software, would you change your mind?
If the motivation were not gender equity but libera software, would you change your mind?
Hmm, tough question, since we’re talking about a hypothetical article :)
If such an article came with, um, a lengthy prose section about the software and maybe comparison to other software, or really any technical content: yes, that would be what I consider on-topic. If not… eh, it’s probably not really what I’d consider “high-quality”, being not much more than a glorified installation guide and would thus end up being flagged.
Maybe I am missing something, but if the point is that gender is a scam, why change the name to a different gender? Was the point not to remove the gender? I’m probably thinking too hard about it.
It’s addressed in the last section
Gender is a scam, but it is a scam that society at large (including you, me, and the author of that post) has bought into.
In terms of language, I think a lot of the gender focus has to be blamed on our Indo-European heritage: You could not say a noun without giving it a gender. Although eroded away in English, it’s still in the personal pronouns (he/she), and desperately neutral uses of words like “person” and singular “they” are an afterthought (whereas “it” is the old neuter pronoun).
That said, I think this keyboard layout is clearly feminine – it has “GYNE” (Greek: “woman”) printed on it ;-)
I’ve flagged this as off-topic. While I agree for the most part with the article, it doesn’t really have too much meaty technical content – just one person forking a project, renaming it, and writing about it with a call for political action. It’s more suited for HN or Reddit, IMO.
It strikes me as a technical howto about using your computer the way you want to. If the motivation were not gender equity but libera software, would you change your mind?
Hmm, tough question, since we’re talking about a hypothetical article :)
If such an article came with, um, a lengthy prose section about the software and maybe comparison to other software, or really any technical content: yes, that would be what I consider on-topic. If not… eh, it’s probably not really what I’d consider “high-quality”, being not much more than a glorified installation guide and would thus end up being flagged.