@akaster @jacqueline @bagder it’s really easy for well-meaning people who don’t really get it to kinda fail to grasp the dynamics at play, then feel they have to avoid losing face–when in reality they’re taking a side in the culture war

you get one contributor, possibly ESL and quite fluent but not aware of the politics of language, writing a sentence that posits the reader is male (PR is good enough, it gets accepted)
you get one person, first-time contributor, got the whole “blue hair and pronouns” vibe about xem, who sends a PR that merely turns it to “they”

so you go, “hey my project is apolitical, we respect all genders but this is a no-politics zone”–when in reality, the original PR was inadvertently political, and the correction actually turns it apolitical

i hope andreas can just own up to this and fix it because i badly want ladybird & servo to suceed