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What about that site makes you think it's satire?

Perhaps 'satire' is the wrong word, but it feels 'off' somehow. I can't quite put it into words

I will say that the repo that the bot is using is absolutely whack, https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/gender-inclusive-lang...

replaces 'mother' with 'parent', 'boyfriend' with 'consort', 'maiden voyage' with 'first voyage'. What a strange world.

Yeah, agreed. The site is almost on the nose.

Maybe not though and you and I are just that "unwoke" lol

I think refraining from the use of 'comrade' suggests it's not satire. Otherwise, I would agree that it would be hard to know.

I can't tell whether or not you are kidding, but "comrade" is indeed gender-neutral and the Pravda recently recommended using it: https://english.pravda.ru/society/149390-ladies_and_gentleme...

If the bot replaced "man" with "comrade" it would be accused of being Russian propaganda.

They say “-master” can be replaced with “-maker”, and they give the examples of:

shipmaster -> shipmaker

headmaster -> headmaker

I can understand wanting to coin a new gender neutral suffix to replace “-master” but why would they include a literal counterexample. Very strange.

The terrible stock clip art, language that reads much like I would expect a boomer trying to imitate social justice folks would write...

It's hosted on Wix, which screams "boomer."

I think this is likely some near-retirement-age back-end programmer who is threatened by social justice movements, trying to manufacture outrage/blowback.

I only think I see one thing that stands out...

> For example, instead of using using the term "Bachelor" or "Bachelorette", this term can be replaced with the word gender-neutral word "Baccalaureate".

This is a substitution that only makes sense in the context of college degrees and even then only barely. (One would not describe a Bachelor of Science degree as a gendered thing, and say that a woman has a Bachelorette of Science degree or so.) A serious website would have recommended a plain word like “unmarried” or “single,” rather than such a strange construct.

a riff on a general trend of taking analogies beyond comprehension-

like 'trans' and 'cis' from.. chemistry? or taking the botanical definition of fruit and trying to apply it to 'fruits and vegetables'

> This is a substitution that only makes sense in the context of college degrees and even then only barely.

My college literally had an option for having the "gender neutral" Baccalaureate in your degree, and I think it's becoming even more common.

I'd say it's a false-flag operation by someone who doesn't like inclusive language.

You're underestimating people's stupidity.

Yes. I got called out by some random "offended" person while discussing a master slave topology on i2c bus I was working on in an embedded system with a friend. It was a coffee shop in Austin so it wasn't exactly shocking but the first time in my life so worth mentioning. Also a company I worked at once declared we should use different terms going forward in our own systems that used master/slaves topologies, they had a variety of alternatives.

stock photos with stuff like 'love equals love'.

thrown together on a quick'n'dirty templating site (Wix)

their blog https://inclusivecoding.wixsite.com/home/blog gives 5 tips, but then lists '4' twice

Good satire is often indistinguishable from the real thing.

Good satire is also often funny. This is just stupid.

Good satire is only funny when recognized as satire, and even then only to those who support the actual position it advocates for (the opposite of the one it satirizes.) Otherwise, it trends to be offensive (for different reasons to those who are targeted vs. those who fail to recognize it.)

I often disagree with the viewpoint of an Onion article while simultaneously finding it funny. Same with comedians. I don't need to agree to appreciate a humorous approach the expression of an opinion.

I do the same at babylon bee, or at least used to. The past couple of years it has really taken a nose dive in quality.

Good satire should insult the foolish and hypocritical.

Humor is subjective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

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