williamgb

I'm at all sure that follows.

His words seems to be have been said with not a small degree of (inappropriate) sarcasm.

> What’s happening now, though, is the rise of the female archetype. Examples Ismail gave that embody the female archetype are open-sourcing, the maker movement...

One might say open-sourcing and the maker movement equally embody the male archetype of risk taking and managing scarcity.

OK, so the implication being that we need more democrats from the far-left, or a collective shift by existing members in that direction?

Neither extremes of the spectrum have a particularly good track record, so you'll have to excuse my preference for moderation.

The right are mostly moderates too, no?

How so?

Matthew, the person you are arguing with, or rather, hurling snark at, did not make the claim that language should never evolve. I'm not sure why you felt so compelled to end a reasoned comment on such a nasty note.

I am in full support of this code. It approaches a sensitive subject with the care it deserves and does not seek to strip anyone of their dignity. Quite a world away from the punitive actions advocated by Erik Michaels-Ober on other projects.

> However, because this mistake has stood since 1985, I have changed all of the pronouns to be female, to make up for lost time. If someone would like to revert this patch or switch to neutral pronouns after 30 years, feel free to set your alarm clock for 2045.

Is that how it works? If using a gendered pronoun (contentious) was a mistake, what sense is to be found in repeating it?

Putting aside your condescending commentary, and disregarding for the time being your hysterical proclamations of closed borders, pray tell... What is it you feel my non-EU wife and I, both living in Edinburgh, are putting up with (or not, as you say)?

We saw prominent features on the BBC, furious headlines from the Daily Mail and self-congratulation from the Guardian. What would you have considered sufficient coverage for yesterdays demonstration?

What point were you trying to make? You made one great statement, with which I agree fully, but followed with statement drawing a comparison between the documentation for a funded open-source project, and a typo in a comment thread. It's not just "kinda silly", it's utterly asinine.