My mom is the only one who ever called me any shade of beautiful. I think we all know what that means.
However, if merely the word ugly being on a page can be "harmful", what you really need is professional help, not a change to Python. Because there's obviously been some things in your past you need to work through. > Python and open source have always been more about things like inclusivity and diversity than about excessive political correctness. I'm sure the historical concepts of master/slave were so distant to the handsome young men that developed the computer > science concepts that they didn't expect to cause any naming conflicts. And not the kind of inclusivity you hear about in [current year]. Open source and related cultures never cared about diversity, they always didn't care about who you were or how you looked, and solely judged you by your work or contributions. I don't use python because Guido or whoever is such a great guy and really worked hard, I use Python because Python is a very useful tool for me. Inclusivity for inclusivity's sake is a bad thing and kills communities and companies. Any charged context is not our problem - it's societies' problem. I'll admit it's a bigger problem, but it's one we need to address through elections, demonstrations, or other political means. Not by self-censorship. Even aside, Python is a world-wide language. Not american or even european. If we have to ban "Ugly" for american sensitivities, then perhaps we need to ban a number of others for china's sensitivities. Where will it end ? Nowhere, it'll keep going on forever. That's why i'm +1 for reverting the master/slave removal PR's. > There are also nationalist jokes about Dutchs. That also must be stopped! Well, we just are superior ;P (If I wanted to whine, though...."Dutch" isn't what we call ourselves. Etymological, it's root is the same as our word "Duits" or the German word "Deutz" (or something close), which means...German (Duitsland / Germany). Since we had a war a bit ago where we were occupied, this makes Dutch sound a lot like we'd still be under foreign rule by the nazi's. Terrible, huh ? We call ourself "Nederlanders", which can't really be translated, as the country name, translated as "The Netherlands", is already a multiple, so the normal transformation like america -> american doesn't work very well. Strangly, the Germans don't do this - they call us "Niederlanders", while referring to themselves as "Deutschland".)
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