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Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they're also working on a browser that will use it.

Here's the maintainer talking about the current state of the project, and a demo of the current functionality

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've seen some inclusive tech docs in which they (ha!) use "she" instead of "he" or "they." I thought that was cool.

Are people writing "she" instead of "they" misogynistic and transphobic too?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are people writing “she” instead of “they” misogynistic and transphobic too?

There's no such thing as "reverse racism", "misandry", etc. That's not how systemic oppression works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Right, "reverse racism" and "misandry" are just plain ol' prejudice.

I guess it's up to you whether you think being prejudice is only bad if you belong to the group systemically in power, or if you think being prejudice against someone for the circumstances of their birth is bad regardless of either party's systemic stature, but we should be correct in our use of language.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I also try to use the feminine as neutral instead of masculine. -Note: I'm Spanish so our language is heavily gendered- Mostly because I think that sounds better than the trend of using a newly introduced neutral gender that sounds terrible because Spanish language never had neutral.

Also if someone gets angry for that I have always the reply "now you know a little on how women fell during all story"

But still, neutral and inclusive language is still too new and far away from normalization to get mad at people on how they use it or not use. And if you are not deadnaming or deadgendering (is that a word?) you are not really hurting anyone.