<p><pre><code> [*] arrogantly dismissed gender neutrality as "trivial"
(#1015)
[*] actively taken steps to revert positive gender
neutrality change
[*] chided @isaacs unnecessarily
[] removed women entirely from the industry
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Ostensibly, reverting a pointless commit is one step away from removing women entirely from the tech industry.<p>Most shocking to me is how some people in the previous commit discussion genuinely believe that modifying two pronouns in code comments will somehow be a crucial step towards gender equality.
I don't usually a comment about the things I know little; however this seems harmless enough.<p>It's apparent to me there is a back story here and the guided reasons were not to demean women, but that's certainly how I feel after rereading the comment in this commit.<p>It would be wise to not treat things like this lightly in public forums, no matter what the back story is.
This is basically already being discussed here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6821677" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6821677</a><p>Reverting is pretty weird.
1. However well intentioned, this sort of pedantry (the change from 'him' to 'them') just alienates efforts to make things more inclusive, rather than actually helping .<p>2. Reverting the change appears to be fairly petty. By all means talk to the author of the commit about it, but commit tennis just makes the project look a little immature.<p>3. Is libuv really now at the point where it is 100% kitchen-sink-included-feature complete, mathematically and empirically tested bug proof, and with code so clean it brings a tear to a developer's eye? If not, then why are you all wasting time on such petty commits, and not on actually, you know, improving the code base.<p>My boss always puts herself in frame as the 'user' in her comments, documents and emails, so all examples are framed with 'her' in mind. Does anyone mind? Does anyone start making changes to 'them'? No, not really. I guess there are more important things to do.