Agreed that is awful! But none of your examples are!
>* Renaming master/slave to central/peripheral
Yes, please go and explain to people in the BDSM scene why their preferences are considered inappropriate and discriminatory. Or should the whole world shape around the sensibilities of US slavery? That's a bit US-centric, no?
>Avoiding gender in code comments and documentation, e.g. "When user clicks, log him out" to "When user clicks, log them out".
Depends on the context. What if it's a woman's magazine website and the comment reads 'log her out'? It sounds a bit hard for all economic activities to not have target audiences. What are we gonna do with all these marketeers then? How would they even establish a focus group?
Off course, that would suggest they are just ordinary people, and not some evil immoral conspiracy against a specific gender.
>Being able to disable animations globally, for epileptic users.
That's not how epilepsy works at all -- these sort of misconceptions are actually the things they are actively fighting _against_.
For some reason, every _constructive_ attempt of making people treat each other better, brings out the worst kind of people that like vultures jump onto any opportunity to find moral laws they can use to feel superior to other people. A sort of moral übermensch (yeah gender neutral phrasing!) if you will. In the bible they are referred to as Pharisees. The monsters that play king of the hill in the moral center. "No true Scotsman" would be an other expression that comes to mind.
The clearly homophobic comments are horrible! Yet it's so easy to tell the difference between those comments and your examples. And you would be able to tell the differences as well, if you your intentions were even in the slightest way honorable.
These kinds of knee-jerk reactions from people in the industry are exactly why we have to try consciously to remove these biases. Listen to the people who are saying these things make them uncomfortable, and try to work with them on a solution that's inclusive to all, instead of dismissing it out of hand, like most the commenters here are doing.
Agreed that is awful! But none of your examples are!
>* Renaming master/slave to central/peripheral
Yes, please go and explain to people in the BDSM scene why their preferences are considered inappropriate and discriminatory. Or should the whole world shape around the sensibilities of US slavery? That's a bit US-centric, no?
>Avoiding gender in code comments and documentation, e.g. "When user clicks, log him out" to "When user clicks, log them out".
Depends on the context. What if it's a woman's magazine website and the comment reads 'log her out'? It sounds a bit hard for all economic activities to not have target audiences. What are we gonna do with all these marketeers then? How would they even establish a focus group?
Off course, that would suggest they are just ordinary people, and not some evil immoral conspiracy against a specific gender.
>Being able to disable animations globally, for epileptic users.
That's not how epilepsy works at all -- these sort of misconceptions are actually the things they are actively fighting _against_.
For some reason, every _constructive_ attempt of making people treat each other better, brings out the worst kind of people that like vultures jump onto any opportunity to find moral laws they can use to feel superior to other people. A sort of moral übermensch (yeah gender neutral phrasing!) if you will. In the bible they are referred to as Pharisees. The monsters that play king of the hill in the moral center. "No true Scotsman" would be an other expression that comes to mind.
The clearly homophobic comments are horrible! Yet it's so easy to tell the difference between those comments and your examples. And you would be able to tell the differences as well, if you your intentions were even in the slightest way honorable.