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This is a fairly unbiased writeup
https://toxigon.com/2025-ladybird-unjustifiable
I didn't find any specifics in that article. What does it mean that the documentation was asked to be more gender neutral? I can't think of any gendered documentation I have read from any other projects.
The user was referred to as "he" in the all the documentation. Random made up example "if the user wants to change his settings he will click this button in the top left" or whatever.
A very normal PR was raised that just changed these uses to be gender neutral and it was declined for being too political.
Thanks for claryfing. I'm not well versed in using git, but does the PR mean that all the work to change the pronouns was already done? All the owner of the repo had to do was accept the changes?
Correct!
Thx :D That was a good read. I didn't know about that
Neither did I. Wow dead before arrival.