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mschuster91
Please, admins, edit the title to "Feminist Software Foundation".

As for my opinion on the PR, I left a quite blunt statement on the PR itself.

basilesimon
Couldn't write the whole name, as the headline is limited to 80 chars. Sorry.
mschuster91
Ah okay, thanks. I seriously hope mods will close that crap PR.
basilesimon
I was more hoping for a hate thread. As it is how I feel at this moment.
mschuster91
I could write some pretty ugly things, but the problem is that I'd likely end up in jail for saying how I really feel :D
basilesimon
Haha! It's a bit the same for me, my Facebook post is going a wee bit crazy right now.
mjgoins
It shouldn't even say that, it should be a dead article, since these are trolls.
celebril
This interesting thing is that, besides the feminist trolling, the Feminist Software Foundation Github account actually has some legitimate code repos/pull requests.
thaweatherman
Are you the one who called them out in the issue on C+= to which they responded with character attacks instead of a sensible argument? Thanks for doing that!
mschuster91
Nope, I'm "msmuenchen" on Github - are you maybe referring to another drama of them?
gales
Why promote the full name, of what appears to be a troll account, whose intent is probably to cause division?
mschuster91
It's clickbait, I mistaked it for "Free Software Foundation" when skimming over "newest".
gales
Thanks for clarifying; I can understand why now. Also, the link should be removed, like suggested by mjgoins.
jeremysmyth
I wouldn't call it clickbait. Satire is closer to the truth.
thaweatherman
Title made me think Stallman did this. FSF = Free Software Foundation not these people. Are xhe and xhem even real words? They make absolutely no sense
DanBC
Xhe and xhem are real words in that real people use them in the real world.

Gender neutral pronouns are important to some people. Everything so far for English will either be made up, or have some problem.

I'm not sure why you think xhe makes less sense than either he or she.

jeremysmyth
The PR changes "the" to "xhe" and "they" to "xhey".

Regardless of what you might think of the gender inflexibility of "he" and "she", it's pretty clear that words like "the" and "they" are not candidates for progressive change regardless of your position on feminism.

The PR is satire, and judging by many of the comments on this thread, quite good satire!

DanBC
It is good satire! Or good trolling. I am enjoying it.

I didn't realise the search and replace for "he" was done poorly and includes "the". That possibly weaking the satire but increases the trolling.