Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Use gender-neutral language in documentation

On 23/09/15 08:17, Christopher Browne wrote:
[...]
>
> "The user should do [something]; he or she or it, or the cis/trans/asexual
> personage or connection used by a web application, whether written in
> C, Java, Perl, PHP, running on Windows or Unix or ..." as the increasing
> inclusions heads to some pathological limit.
[...]
> order to be politically correct" will irritate people; instead, make the
> documentation *better*.  Replacing "he" with 
> "he/she/cis/trans/Unix/Windows"
> (or some such) wouldn't make it *better*.  (And probably that's a phrase
> that's missing some legalistic wherefores whereases!)
[...]

You also have to include "they" as some people have multiple 
personalities, I actually met one (but only - as far as I can tell - saw 
one of them) - in the early 1990's I conversed with several people on 
alt.sexual.abuse.recovery, so got more insights into these types of 
complexities than most people.  I was doing a project in network 
traffic, and got to look at some high volume usenet groups, of which 
that group was one.

Don't forget GNU/Linux,  & GNU/Hurd, plus many others...  :-)

I'll settle for avoiding unnecessary use of gender!


Cheers,
Gavin