Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway

On 2025-02-07, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-07 3:06 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2025-02-06, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-06 11:47 a.m., DFS wrote:

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https://news.itsfoss.com/running-linux-in-pdf/
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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.
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Believe you me, I blasted this creep.

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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.

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Since Microsoft serves the legal and financial communities, it doesn't
have a choice but to keep such idiocy optional. While businesses and
academia can afford to subscribe to this woke stupidity, the other are
number-based and don't care whether you would prefer to be addressed as
"ma'am" when they refuse to give you a mortgage because your credit
score is complete shit. They also don't care if you think you're a woman
after you've raped a dozen of them.

Actually the financial companies are dropping this Woke DEI crap. They're
finding out it's getting in their way of hiring competent people. I wonder
how long it will take for Microsoft and Apple to figure that out?

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