[systemd-devel] Pronoun confusion

[Sam Phippen]

Ah, my bad. Just saw some stuff floating around twitter.

Thanks for dealing with this more quickly and efficiently than I was expecting.

Thanks
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Sam Phippen

On 24 Oct 2014, at 11:25, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Lennart Poettering, Red Hat