[systemd-devel] [properly] man/pam_systemd.xml: remove heinous use of exclusionary gendered pronoun

Johnathan Zefran johnZefran at mail.com
Thu Oct 23 19:29:15 PDT 2014


Sorry about the formatting, I forgot to turn off html. 
Here's what I was trying to say: 

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The use of a gendered pronoun like 'his' constitutes a rather baffling piece of sexism and misogyny on Lennart's part, considering he overwrote a valid gender-neutral pronoun. I am disappointed by this, so I would like to propose the use of the gender-neutral 'zir' pronoun. Tech has a big problem with its sexist culture which is offputting to women and minorities. We can't let our FOSS developers do gaffes like this. It is my sincere hope that this patch is applied, and that the systemd developers will pledge to make their hackfests and mailing lists safe spaces for women and minorities.
 
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>logind.conf</refentrytitle>
                         <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         all processes of the session are terminated. If
-                        the last concurrent session of a user ends, zir
+            the last concurrent session of a user ends, zir
                         user systemd instance will be terminated too,
                         and so will the user's slice
                         unit.</para></listitem>
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
                                 to the user login time on the
                                 machine. It is automatically created
                                 the first time a user logs in and
-                                removed on zir final logout. If a user
+                                removed on zir final logout. If a user
                                 logs in twice at the same time, both
                                 sessions will see the same
                                 <varname>$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR</varname>


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