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Comment by kolya3 | Hacker News Reader

I received user feedback from a woman who said our submit button was "vile" and "sexist" because the label on it said "Submit". It took me a second to process. I can't imagine the emotions bubbling up inside her every day that she browses the web.

But regardless, we'll be changing the "Submit" button to "Sign In".

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Might there be enough people feeling the way she does to warrant browsers providing an option (like setting minimum font size) of specifying what 'type="submit"' fields should display?

Perhaps the woman in question might prefer that they all displayed, "Dominate". [Sorry: it just seems worth the down-votes.]

I would say not a full browser option, but it would make sense as an extension/userscript

The classic is people fretting over master/slave nomenclature on hardware: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp

I've had people complain about whitelist/blacklist too.

Also "daemon." I can't remember which, but one of the "Linux distros for Christians" tried to remove references to daemons in the user interface and documentation.

Those kinds of comments always say more about the commenter than the thing being commented on.

Let her know that you value her feedback submission very highly and apologize for manhandling the situation. Your tech guys will be making a change shortly.

But. Submit has different meanings. I really don't know how she ever connected a submit form button to submit in the sense of a man dominating a woman. People are strange.

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