It seems to me that maybe perhaps the problem is companies adopting a hardware they don’t have a complete understanding of, and using it in new products.

Dude even came through with the “I’m just expressing myself” follow-up troll! Classic stuff!

This thread is nonsense. As the leader of a boy scout troop, I’ve seen kids that were just pure jackasses, since the day they were born, and those kids can have the most overbearing parents, or the most free-form parents, and everything in between.

It’s not advice. This is doctrine and there’s a difference.

I don’t know what to tell you, other than, “everything only matters as much as it makes sense.”

You’re conflating two proposals, and thus I think it is you who has misunderstood what is on the table.

Whatever you say, scout. That doesn’t seem to account for the people who have picked up the habit, though. /shrug

Like I said to another commenter:

Neither of those things are true, but I am also glad to see you drop it. Thanks!

I never said my solution was obvious. I made logical points for it, and I do contend that it is a logical solution. But adding new words, at a formative educational level, into the lexicon is far from “obvious”. I disagree with you that it is and always has been ineffective, but that’s really beside the point.

Oh, EXCUSE me? You don’t think you can be Arabic and gender neutral?!?! Now, I’M offended at your disassociation of people of the Muslim faith with people who use gender-neutral pronouns!

The comment I replied to was the one that was quoted. I’m sorry you misinterpreted that, and I understand that it’s mostly Kinja’s fault for not giving you the receipts, but that doesn’t mean I fucked up. I wasn’t ‘replying to something else’. You made a poor assumption, because of a flawed dataset, and now you look…

No, I’m seriously arguing that there’s nothing confusing about new words, nor their usage. Familiarity is irrelevant to that discussion.

Oh no no no. If you want to play the “quote me” game, I want you to quote where I said that you said that rich people shouldn’t have access to the net. I never said that, so why are you trying to say that I did, or that I suggested it in such a way as to imply a quote from you? What is your angle here? Why are you…

He did tell you. Quite plainly. Just fucking read.

Ah! Gotcha.

I...uh...I know?

As a lifelong boyscout/boyscout leader, I got into the habit, when I was quite young, to refer to everyone I didn’t know as “scout”.

Why are you confident of that? There are countries that have already started teaching those pronouns in grade school. It’s not an especially difficult concept, and the pronouns follow a clear structure that applies to all pronouns.

Here’s a wrinkle for you: