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FSF wants to replace "the" pronoun in Linux Kernel by the more neutral "xhe"

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Utter genius.

They had me fooled until: https://gitorious.org/c-plus-equality/c-plus-equality/source...:

>The traditional binary foundation of 1s and 0s is deeply problematic: 1 is inherently phallic and thus misogynistic

Thanks for the link, this is golden trolling :p

This was also in (I think) a Neal Stephenson book. Possibly Cryptonomicon.

Posted the link to /r/Feminism. Got banned. http://imgur.com/7d4k0DV

Please, admins, edit the title to "Feminist Software Foundation".

As for my opinion on the PR, I left a quite blunt statement on the PR itself.

It shouldn't even say that, it should be a dead article, since these are trolls.

This interesting thing is that, besides the feminist trolling, the Feminist Software Foundation Github account actually has some legitimate code repos/pull requests.

Why promote the full name, of what appears to be a troll account, whose intent is probably to cause division?

It's clickbait, I mistaked it for "Free Software Foundation" when skimming over "newest".

Thanks for clarifying; I can understand why now. Also, the link should be removed, like suggested by mjgoins.

I wouldn't call it clickbait. Satire is closer to the truth.

Are you the one who called them out in the issue on C+= to which they responded with character attacks instead of a sensible argument? Thanks for doing that!

Nope, I'm "msmuenchen" on Github - are you maybe referring to another drama of them?

Couldn't write the whole name, as the headline is limited to 80 chars. Sorry.

Ah okay, thanks. I seriously hope mods will close that crap PR.

I was more hoping for a hate thread. As it is how I feel at this moment.

I could write some pretty ugly things, but the problem is that I'd likely end up in jail for saying how I really feel :D

Haha! It's a bit the same for me, my Facebook post is going a wee bit crazy right now.

Title made me think Stallman did this. FSF = Free Software Foundation not these people. Are xhe and xhem even real words? They make absolutely no sense

Xhe and xhem are real words in that real people use them in the real world.

Gender neutral pronouns are important to some people. Everything so far for English will either be made up, or have some problem.

I'm not sure why you think xhe makes less sense than either he or she.

The PR changes "the" to "xhe" and "they" to "xhey".

Regardless of what you might think of the gender inflexibility of "he" and "she", it's pretty clear that words like "the" and "they" are not candidates for progressive change regardless of your position on feminism.

The PR is satire, and judging by many of the comments on this thread, quite good satire!

It is good satire! Or good trolling. I am enjoying it.

I didn't realise the search and replace for "he" was done poorly and includes "the". That possibly weaking the satire but increases the trolling.

Feminist do not make sense. If you want to see German Feminazis live in action then just read http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=addeacc3 ...

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