[systemd-devel] Pronoun confusion

[Lennart Poettering]

B1;3409;0cOn Fri, 24.10.14 11:20, Sam Phippen (samphippen at googlemail.com) wrote:

> Hello Friends,
> 
> I’m slightly confused by this commit: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=989fc2c61cb3c5376bd8bff6b2cfba9e4d740ffc. The use of their/they/them is correct as a singular
> gender neutral pronoun in English[1]. I think this change so that the language to reads “his” is worse. 
> I think this because readers that do not identify as being a man may find that the language is exclusionary.
> 
> I’m new to the ways of systemd so, if you genuinely believe this is better in the systemd context, I’d
> love to hear an explanation of why this change was made. I’m just trying to understand :)

This has already been changed again:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=c1405e4f313768519d66f49e0ffcbe964409d150

Please always check git first whether the issue you are having is
still there.

I am not sure where you got your hints about this from, but it would
be nice to report this back to wherever you got it from, so that we
don't have tons of people posting the same here over and over again,
because they are too lazy to check git.

Thank you for your understanding,

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat