flere-imsaho 🇺🇦Jul 2, 2024

…before you hand your lean browser hopes to andreas kling, remember that the dude is a transphobe who hides his transphobia behind the “this is political and thus should not have place here” language.

for example, andreas kling thinks that asking to use inclusive or gender-neutral language is, and i quote, “advertising one's personal politics” and thus not an appropriate request to be made towards a project.

Gender neutral language within build instructions by Tunas1337 · Pull Request #6814 · SerenityOS/serenity

It's a minor nitpick, but I think it's important; assuming the user and/or developer of the operating system is male isn't exactly the best.

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Show threadnetworkExceptionJul 2, 2024

@mawhrin as one of the few trans* and more queer authors of SerenityOS I want to express my concern with calling Andreas a transphobe over that.

I think my friend and fellow trans* SerenityOS author @filmroellchen summed it up best in her recent blog post about Andreas stepping down as BDFL: https://filmroellchen.eu/blog/serenityos-changes/

Regarding the Summer 2024 SerenityOS leadership changes

kleines Filmröllchen’s home page
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@mawhrin @filmroellchen what I think is definitely appropriate to criticize is calling ladybird "unpolitical software". All software is political and I would like Andreas to recognize that
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@networkexception @mawhrin From very briefly looking at this stuff, he seems like the very typical privileged dude who thinks the system is fair because the system has always privileged him. Disregarding if his specific flavor is more "transphobe" or more "vanilla sexist", his behavior has a bad vibe to it, and makes him look like all the other privileged dudes who make up like 90% of the whole problem.
Jul 2, 2024 at 11:45amWeb