BakfietsouderMay 8, 2018

So, I've read the RMS joke discourse now. I'm one of the few people who actually have a trauma related to abortions, and I to be honest, I found the joke hilarious. It's a comic relief after a retraumatising read.

What's triggering is the name of the function. If the concern trolls that removed the joke were REALLY considerate, they'd rename the fucking funktion. Putting a TW in the manual would be an acceptable band aid, but to fix it, you'd have to rename he whole thing.

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I get that the bigger issue here is the powerstructures of FLOSS organisations, but what NEEDS TO be addressed too is that a bunch of techbros get to decide what's traumatising or not. THE JOKE WAS FINE. The handling of it is disastrous.

Do you wonder why women avoid tech? Because no one is comfortable with typing in "abort" in the command line while bleeding out after having a REAL abortion. Because our reproductive health is seen upon as a joke. [See next toot]

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Show threadBakfietsouderMay 8, 2018

Because concern trolls get to decide how we lift react to the functions they shouldn't have given shitty names in the first place. Because we're never seen as humans.

The function could have been named "remove" instead, and there wouldn't have been an issue. The problem isn't the joke, it is the men blind of their ignorance and privilege. Men with power. That's the real problem here.

Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKMay 8, 2018

@lilletale I just about remember reading an article experessing concern as naming of such commands from a British female computer scientist as long ago as 1984/5.

It was part of a wider rise in progressive/activist attitudes in the UK at the time, although alas mostly ignored by those in power (other than slight acceptance of changing gender roles and acceptance of LGBT), but other activism (miners strike, new age travellers) was actually crushed.

Show threadkupcaMay 8, 2018
@lilletale thanks for an interesting point and insight!👍
In our /Slovene/ language the name for abortion is different - "splav, splaviti".
That is perhaps why me and possible others find the name "to abort" not emotionally charged, but primarily a distant, medicalised and technical foreign word.
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Show threadBakfietsouderMay 8, 2018
@kupca 😊
But then again, why would they use a medicalised term for a computer function?
Show threadvoronoi potatoMay 8, 2018
@lilletale
The term is used a lot in the context of flights and space. Many people think of flights and space and missions with abort but medical with abortion. In the context of technical it's to stop prematurely because of some error. Honestly I didn't even know before this discussion that the origin of the word is to miscarry, I thought it was to stop early because of some issue.
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Show threadkupcaMay 8, 2018

@Vopo @lilletale
thus, I agree with lilletale to replace "to abort" with some other word such as beforementioned /to remove/.

other possibilites could be to:
- perish, - pre-end, - fail, - suspend, - halt, - cease, - desist, - discontinue

do you have some more?
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