Mozilla changes Brotli encoding “bro” to “br” due to worry about gender problem (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

As a german i find this suppression of small breads offensive.

http://i.imgur.com/ODHtjqs.jpg

good idea! Let's also change the airport code for Brownsville. Better change the ones for Manchester and Guymon too.

Something does need to be done to address the gender balance in software world; this isn't it.

At the coderdojo where I mentor getting girls to engage and stay engaged is an ongoing challenge. Today we had about 25% girls which is about norm for other dojos.

Some background on initiatives. https://coderdojo.com/news/2015/03/11/girls-who-code-coderdo...

«"bro" has a gender problem, even though the dual meaning is unintentional. It comes of misogynistic and unprofessional due to the world it lives in.»

If software could think, it would laugh at us.

> English words don't have gender.

Yes they do.

Nouns referring to things don't usually have (with the exception of Ship and probably some other ones)

Heir/Heiress, Prince/Princess, etc and of course the pronoun he/she and related words