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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Derrick Stolee" <dstolee@microsoft.com>,
	"Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Avoid gender pronouns
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 15:28:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210611202819.47077-1-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> (raw)

The latest solution looking for a problem [1] is to use the actively
debated among linguists singular "they" [2].

Leaving aside the linguistic intricacies that not all singular "they" are
equal [3], and the overwhelming sentiment that these kinds of political
discussions don't provide value for this community [4], the "issue" can
be easily solved by simply using different wording.

  - The reviewer herself
  + The reviewers themselves

Problem solved.

Cheers.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.975.git.1623085069.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/01/singular-their-affront-good-writing/319329/
[3] https://ahdictionary.tumblr.com/post/147597257733/updated-usage-note-they
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/git/87wnrooa17.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/

Felipe Contreras (2):
  doc: avoid using the gender of other people
  comments: avoid using the gender of our users

 Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 5 ++---
 Documentation/git-push.txt      | 4 ++--
 Documentation/user-manual.txt   | 2 +-
 commit.c                        | 2 +-
 config.h                        | 4 ++--
 date.c                          | 2 +-
 pathspec.h                      | 2 +-
 strbuf.h                        | 4 ++--
 wt-status.c                     | 2 +-
 9 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

-- 
2.32.0


             reply	other threads:[~2021-06-11 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-11 20:28 Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-06-11 20:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: avoid using the gender of other people Felipe Contreras
2021-06-15 13:28   ` Derrick Stolee
2021-06-15 16:30     ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-11 20:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] comments: avoid using the gender of our users Felipe Contreras
2021-06-15 13:31   ` Derrick Stolee
2021-06-15 14:16     ` Paul Smith
2021-06-15 16:39       ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-15 16:36     ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-12  1:17 ` [PATCH 0/2] Avoid gender pronouns Bagas Sanjaya
2021-06-12  1:39   ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-12 23:24 ` Robert Karszniewicz
2021-06-13  7:15 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-14  1:27   ` Junio C Hamano

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