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[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Or we could ask the question in the opposite direction - why would you use language which excluded anybody who doesn’t identify as male from the documentation for an open-source project, to the point where when someone offers to update the language for you your response is to rant about “personal politics” and write a contribution policy which forbids the use of gender-neutral language?

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Can you provide an example of this non-inclusive language? I honestly can't even come up with an example for web browser documentation that would refer to any gender at all.

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 30 minutes ago

I don't know the actual thing that happened but I'm assuming "the user [something] <his/him/he> [something]"

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"In case of browser crash, the male, white, cis user should submit a bug report"

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

If the user is female, a report should be submitted by her closest male relative.