Does Joyent refuse to hire speakers of Spanish, French, Italian, Hindi, or any of the other dozens of languages that have gender throughout the entire grammar?

You are missing the entire point. It is one thing to not allow gender pronouns (what you are suggesting) versus punishing someone who specifically set out to change gender-neutral pronouns into male dominated ones (the Joyent case). REAL BIG difference.

Rolling back a commit is punishing, but saying you'd fire someone who did so (if they actually worked for you) isn't?

That's just not reasonable. Going straight from "teaching moment" to pitch-forks is not going to help anyone accomplish anything productive.

Quoting Bryan[1]:

> It's not that he rejected the pull request...it's that when he was overruled by Isaac some hours later, he unilaterally reverted Isaac's commit. (And, it must be said, sent a very nasty private note to make clear that this was no accident.)

Rolling back the commit or disagreeing is and was not the issue. It was his attitude and behavior after reverting the commit.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9041086

Where's that note? I thought it was all public.

Either way, it's still just an issue of someone being stubborn about a PR that neither helped nor hindered the actual code.

If that's a fireable offense in your company, your HR processes are broken. Especially with no management in place to set any expectations on the topic.