six demon bag
Wind, fire, all that kind of thing!
2019-11-22
Good Riddance Stack Overflow
A while ago Stack Overflow updated their Code of Conduct to mandate the use of user-specified pronouns. To which I had this to say:
Should I ever get suspended over something stupid like using the "wrong" pronoun nobody needs to bother re-enabling my account. I will be gone permanently.
I don't have a problem using gender-neutral language. However, I will not look up someone's "pronoun du jour" just so that I may address them "correctly", and I absolutely refuse to use "neopronouns". How anyone can look at this and not realize the lunacy in it is beyond me. The attempt to enforce the use of made-up pronouns has nothing to do with being inclusive or respectful. It's a power-trip for some social justice warriors that doesn't have any merits at all, and it will be weaponized.
These neopronoun shenanigans are pure unbridled insanity, and future generations will look back and ask "What on Earth were they thinking?"
Today my Meta Stack Exchange account got suspended over my stance on the use of neopronouns. In addition to that the statement cited above was removed from all of my network profiles for the second time, in direct contradiction to what used to be the policy (at least as far as I'm aware).
So, as promised, I'm terminating all of my activity on Stack Overflow and all other Stack Exchange network sites effective immediately. Stack Overflow (the company) seems to be of the mind that they can survive on questions and social justice alone these days. I guess we'll find out how well that's going to work for them.
Goodbye.
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