From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: Being excellent to one another Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:40:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20170320144007.GA25984@jocasta.intra> References: <87inn499gk.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20170319195707.175eb056@khaalida> <20170320063619.GA20517@jocasta.intra> <878to0fhr3.fsf@gmail.com> <20170320095447.GA22437@jocasta.intra> <871stsfe13.fsf@gmail.com> <20170320104406.GA22867@jocasta.intra> <87ziggdwh4.fsf@gmail.com> <20170320121047.GA23894@jocasta.intra> <87lgs0kopn.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cpyTp-0002EC-Pp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:40:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cpyTo-0004rr-OJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:40:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lgs0kopn.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic Court??s Cc: Alex Sassmannshausen , guix-devel@gnu.org --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 03:27:48PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Howdy! =20 John Darrington skribis: =20 > As I recall, their request was that I always use "singular they" and= never to=20 > mention other possible alternatives to anyone. I acknowledge their = request and=20 > recognise their every right to make it. But I feel no obligation to= comply with > their request. Ng0's reaction to my declining, I interpreted to mea= n that they=20 > considered it not to be a request, but a demand. If this interpreta= tion was=20 > wrong, then I apologise to them. =20 John, I think you???re playing on words here. I'm glad you noticed! If you (or anyone else wishes) I will retype the=20 above text using the pronoun of your choice, because I mean what I say. =20 In this case, what matters is respecting the other participant who explicitly asked to be referred to using non-gendered pronouns. It???= s a very simple request; honoring it costs us nothing but it can make a big difference to this person. I fully agree. And I have already said that I have no problem with that, a= nd will do so without argument. =20 I don???t want anyone of us to make someone else???s life harder by disregarding what they present as important to them. Nobody should ever set out to make the life of another person harder. Also, nobody should ever start believing that what is important to them must take priority over what is important to another. J' --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAljP6ccACgkQimdxnC3oJ7OXPwCfVVb4GhigJmhCDWxxpchzZNn+ AwoAnjrFnSOgKBPJfgLwcpySuxHt/dEl =68CK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn--