John Darrington transcribed 2.2K bytes: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:57:09AM +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: > Hello John, > > Hello Andy, > > Misgendering a guix contributor is rude. > > If deliberate, I agree that misgendering anyone, guix contributor or not, > would > be rude. So I have never done so. > > On the grand scale of things it is worse than what you perceive to be > misuse of language. > > I don't know what you mean by "it" in the above sentence. If you mean > rudeness, > then I agree. If you mean an inadvertent misgendering of a person then I do > not. > Sometime ago, due to a misunderstanding I received a series of emails > addressing > me as Frau Darrington. I did not feel offended or insulted at all, and I > cannot > imagine anyone would feel that way. > > Continuing to advocate for your idea on what good English is is > unwelcome behavior, > > Perhaps. But why is it only advocacy of *my* opinion which is unwelcome > whereas > that of others is perfectly acceptable? I feel that I am being victimised > here. > > especially when this advocacy ignores the issue of misgendering. > > That opinion I do reject. I think that the occasional, inadvertent > reference > to a person with a pronoun of the incorrect gender scores very low on the > scale > of world problems. It is certainly no worse that refering to that person with > a pronoun of the wrong grammatical number. > > I'm sorry that we cannot agree on this subject, but as it is orthogonal to the > remit of this mailing list, I suggest that we drop the subject and not bring > it up again. > > J' > > > > -- > Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. > PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 > fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 > See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. >
For the record, as this is public and I can point to it as a case for others: Please search Duckduckgo/searx/Google for either of "cis-privileges", "cis privileges" "cisgender privilege" and educate yourselves about it. This is my last answer to this subthread. Thanks Andy.