Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him

Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by pseudalopex on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @02:58AM (#21122688)

Nobody said he was trying to antagonize nonbinary people. The problem is how he responded when people told him he had.

People having preferred pronouns is a new idea in most English speaking cultures because intersex, transgender, and nonbinary identities are new ideas in most English speaking cultures. Stallman doesn't use an older generation's standard. He says we should respect other people's gender identities by using the appropriate pronouns.[1]

Many people felt singled out when Facebook insisted on full and legal names, for what it's worth.[2]

[1] https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_real-name_policy_cont...

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Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by inimino on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @12:14PM (#21127129)

> Nobody said he was trying to antagonize nonbinary people.

The first sentence of this thread: "Dude has gone out of his way to make other people uncomfortable."

I'm simply saying that, on the basis of your [1] alone, I would not come to that interpretation.

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