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Stop putting politics in everything you touch. Once upon a time, before being an activist poseur was in vogue, open source was all about code, not idiotic posturing for terminally online people.
Oh, the beautiful, inclusive movement of brigading and "with us or against us" black-and-white thinking. Very tolerant indeed.
Is the lack of acknowledging a barrier?
Are they all waiting for "activists" like you to open the door and be welcomed at using, e.g. SerenityOS?
Do you believe female users feel left behind because there is no official line that says "hi, female users. I acknowledge and salute you. You are welcome here."?
Why do you believe people different than you need your white gloves treatment?
Get off your high horse. It is political posturing at best, at worst it's just getting annoyed at nothing and feeling righteous about it.
All these idiotic inclusive movements all that create is ghettoisation and making everything about gender and race, when the stated goal is to remove the gender and race barrier. In the wise words of Morgan Freeman, "if you want to get rid of racism, stop talking about it".
So much for a project that claims to be apolitical
It seems to be a space designed to avoid anything which the typical 90s white male geek type wouldn't perceive as political. Which in itself is a highly political goal.
"Using Lenna is on-brand for SerenityOS" is not meant as a compliment.
That's an interesting interpretation. Considering that the project has several trans developers and even a handful of (biological) women I'm going to suggest another interpretation: They're not trying to be a safe haven for bigots, they just don't want the endless CoC/pronouns bikeshedding that plagues too many projects these days.
If a project welcomes diverse contributors and doesn't foster an environment that alienates them (which, in part, you can evidence by their continued presence and contributions), that seems way more worth its weight than academic quibbles about the language used in documentation.
Are cis and trans women contributors speaking up about any problems? If not, then is the issue really important? I'd rather see a project not actively alienate cis and trans women developers - a higher bar to actively meet than you'd think - than to be religiously attentive to "microaggressions" and the like while doing very little to actually accommodate them as contributors.
You are though, that's just the truth.
> It's awfully disrespectful and reveals a fundamentally misogynistic view of women.
Sometimes the truth hurts. I'm glad we could teach you it
This by the way is exactly why I approve of any policies that keep people like you out of projects. If you can't learn to get along with people with different beliefs then don't expect them to welcome you.