Re:Inclusive Coding Bot on GitHub
by cato_the_elder on Friday April 01, 2022 @11:56AM
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> This is a substitution that only makes sense in the context of college degrees and even then only barely.
My college literally had an option for having the "gender neutral" Baccalaureate in your degree, and I think it's becoming even more common.
a riff on a general trend of taking analogies beyond comprehension-
like 'trans' and 'cis' from.. chemistry? or taking the botanical definition of fruit and trying to apply it to 'fruits and vegetables'
> For example, instead of using using the term "Bachelor" or "Bachelorette", this term can be replaced with the word gender-neutral word "Baccalaureate".
This is a substitution that only makes sense in the context of college degrees and even then only barely. (One would not describe a Bachelor of Science degree as a gendered thing, and say that a woman has a Bachelorette of Science degree or so.) A serious website would have recommended a plain word like “unmarried” or “single,” rather than such a strange construct.