Comment by haskellshill

3 months ago

>Please call me (order of preference): They/them or She/her please.

Take a wild guess

Well that tells me the rough cultural area alt187 might be pointing to, but I could use some more clarity. Are you saying that pronouns/transgender/queerness are the ideology? Or are you showing them as shibboleths of a broader ideological tendency that's prevailing in FOSS?

  • The proximity with that rough cultural area is only incidental, I think. In fact, I think if you sit around for 10 mlre years, the tide will have entirely turned.

    I'm not gonna get into detail, but for me, some defining elements:

    - A compulsive need to criticize, demean and replace every piece of code written in C by Rust (rarely, it's another language).

    - A willingness and strong activism to separate from figures that created the FOSS landscape, like Richard Stallman.

    - A sort of laxism towards non-free software, and a particularly cringy hype towards corporate lip service paid to OSS, or trojan horses.

    - Subtle propositions made to consolide FOSS communities around centralized services, and promiting those.

    This isn't exhaustive, because it's just off the top of my head.

Please show me on the doll where this stranger's personal identity hurt you.

  • Also, you do know the

    > Please show me on the doll where this stranger hurt you

    phrasing is pretty closely associated with child abuse investigations, right? I don't know why you'd associate gender identity with that?