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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by TaylorAlexander on Monday October 17, 2022 @03:51PM (#33238680)
As I and others have previously pointed out [1] foone uses they/them pronouns and feels particularly frustrated when their posts get featured on HN, because users here seem unable to honor this simple preference of theirs. It looks like they deleted their tweet out of frustration with todays latest round of misgendering.

I hope people on HN will learn to respect all members of our community. Yes that involves not assuming every person online is a man!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32978438

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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by tbodt on Monday October 17, 2022 @03:55PM (#33238733)
I did a quick search on the comments page for "he"+"him" and found nothing referring to foone, and was about to congratulate HN for getting it right, and then thought to scroll to the bottom of the page and found a dozen dead/autocollapsed comments, most including the wrong pronouns. At least they're where they belong.
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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by brimwats on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:33AM (#33247805)
the hateful comments about them having mental illnesses and so on are also terrible (i.e. noduerme in this thread)
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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by tbodt on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:27PM (#33249917)
.oi
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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by throwawayallday on Monday October 17, 2022 @05:39PM (#33239863)
Not everyone believes or wishes to adhere to your religion. You sound like the Christian soccer moms of yesteryear fulminating at stores playing rap music, girls wearing tank tops at the mall, kids cussing at each other four tables over, etc. Chronically online neo-Puritanical nonsense.

It's OK if someone on a random internet thread gets your pronouns wrong. The world will continue, no one is getting hurt, no one is getting dehumanized, nothing will become of it.

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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by endianswap on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:11PM (#33240163)
> no one is getting dehumanized

[citation needed]

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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by throwawayallday on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:20PM (#33240254)
>not using the correct pronouns is dehumanizing people

[citation needed]

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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by dang on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:44PM (#33240462)
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by dang on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:43PM (#33240456)
We've banned this account for ideological flamewar. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by xani_ on Monday October 17, 2022 @08:47PM (#33241612)
Did they realize people don't just comb over someone's twitter bios to find the pronoun just to talk about some technical thing ?
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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by jaxbot on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:28PM (#33242630)
Doesn't that broadly seem like a problem? Given the preferred pronouns here are "they/them", which is what people ought to be using if they don't know, the problem stems from people inherently assuming "he/him" for any technical work. That's a problem beyond just trans/gnc issues.
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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by deburo on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:40PM (#33242704)
Given that for non-city dwellers, interactions with transgenders are rarer than rare. Given that the assumption that anything non explicitly female is male is still very common. I suspect foone will be dealing with this issue for longer than they’d like.
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