Hang on a sec...
>their behaviour.
Wasn't monica fired for suggesting she used gender neutral pronouns generally? Because they said she should use the preferred gender specific pronoun when known?
And now "Sara Chipps" is doing exactly that?!
It's more nuanced from what I understand^. I gather that Monica expressed the desire to find an alternative to using singular they - such as universally using pronoun-free language. Mind you, this was all in discussing a future code of conduct change and its eventual enforcement.
The topic is just very delicate, and in my eyes there is no line that you can draw where both sides are univerally happy. Words spoken/written with the best intentions and utmost respect can still leave others feel hurt or insulted, simply because there are no objective answers to certain differences in perception.
^I am not privy to "insider" info, but I have followed the situation closely and consumed most of what has been said on the metas publicly (outside of chat rooms).
In the comments to the linked question, Monica Cellio says StackOverflow have not told her what parts of the CoC she was violating. I don't think it's public knowledge why she was demodded.
(Is 'fired' an appropriate word to use, when Monica wasn't an employee?)
> Asked to confirm that Cellio was the moderator in question, a company spokesperson said, "Cellio (she/her) would not use stated pronouns, which violates our current CoC …
> Cellio, for what it's worth, does not include any preferred pronouns on her Twitter account.
Yet, when they refer to her, Stack Exchange puts pronouns next to her name, clearly against her own “preferences.” It’s like they’re literally forcing onto her an ideology or worldview which they know she does not share.
What bizarre, hypocritical, vindictive behavior from Stack Exchange.
Ben Noordhuis wasn't an employee of Joyent either but that didn't stop them from symbolically firing him:
> While we would fire Ben over this, node.js is an open source project and one doesn't necessarily have the same levers.
It’s interesting that “we”, “our” and “community” in that quote all don’t mean what they seem. “We” are the farmers and “community” are the sheep, is what she means.
> that behavior
> the behavior
Some user named Tim changed it to "their".
Full history @ https://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/334248/revisions
Why would they let random people edit such a post? So weird...
That’s how SO works.