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Is this intended as sarcasm? Markdown renders to html, it's an authoring syntax that happens to be readable in it's "code" state. How would it solve email?

The real issue is bespoke rendering engines instead of just using a rule of "everything the current browser can do, but no js".

Empathy is pretty important to me and as I understand it's the primary motivation of folks looking to shift communication in public code repositories towards more inclusive language, actually. It's remarkable that asking for that empathy is somehow a bridge too far and the onus to be empathetic and not 'push too hard' is on those looking to make life a bit friendlier towards gender minorities.

A very small % of the population identifies outside of the conventional gender bounds. If anyone is getting fired, it's for not respecting the preferences and wishes of their coworkers, which seems quite reasonable. If someone refused to call me by nickname, and insisted using my legal name, for example, I'd probably be quite bothered.

Forgive my ignorance, why would that be a good FAQ item?

Where does it say this is language is inherently bad? I'm not sure it does. As members of a software-focused community, can't we look at existing solutions that work okay and strive to make them even better? We all do this quite a bit in code review, for example.

> But how far is too far?

This could be an interesting question that I think is okay to ask? How far is too far when it comes to existing gendered language? Is it okay to ask that question too?

Your examples/jokes are odd, you've taken already gender-neutral language and replaced it.

> The human desire for everyone to conform to my worldview.

Is that not what's happening relative to gendered language and folks who wish to move away from it?

> Does there become a point where the inclusive language rules starts to exclude a group of people who feel it's too much?

If it does, is that perhaps okay? Would this not just be a pendulum swing in the opposite direction from the current group of folks who feel excluded by dominant language? Might that discomfort switching hands, so to speak, be an interesting or useful exercise?

> Even the most hardcore anti-capitalists have to give respect to how the combination of capitalism and technology has worked to lift most of the world out poverty and provided us with the security and comfort only kings enjoyed just a few century’s ago.

no, we fucking don't.