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Free Software and the New Sexism - Elsacat - Apr 26 2025
https://blogs.feministwiki.org/taylan/2023/08/26/free-software-and-the-new-sexism/
I saw this posted on Ovarit and wanted to reshare here. The author is male, but is gender critical, and named many women and women's groups who should be read and listened to. He's very aware of the sexism in the free software movement, including the sexism of focusing women's issues solely on trans "women."
Quote:I would urge the maintainers of software projects and all Free Software enthusiasts to think critically about what kind of environment they want to foster. One in which only a narrow, arguably male-centric version of feminism is tolerated, and dissidents are aggressively hounded out? Or one in which people of all wakes of life, all worldviews, and all identities are equally welcome on the condition that they treat others with respect?
RE: Free Software and the New Sexism - komorebi - Apr 26 2025
Thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen this. Going to send it to my friends in the OSS community.
TIMs speaking for and over women has, over the past 10-15 years, increasingly become a problem in very male-dominated fields like tech (and, say, gaming). The tiny silver lining is that some dude who started painting his nails last week saying he knows how hard it is to be a "woman in tech" is a really great way of peaking people...
RE: Free Software and the New Sexism - komorebi - Apr 27 2025
For anyone interested, here's the conversation the OP had on GitHub regarding the code of conduct.
RE: Free Software and the New Sexism - eyeswideopen - Apr 27 2025
Thank you for the links, Elsacat and komorebi - interesting reading. Ehmke's "I’m female but I don’t ovulate or menstruate" is so frustrating - he's not content appropriating the word "woman", he has to claim "female" as well. There's literally no word we can use to describe ourselves. Typical man.
RE: Free Software and the New Sexism - VerdantHorizon - Apr 27 2025
Quote:I'm very disappointed that this discussion was not fruitful for you. I hope you take the time to examine your words from a place of understanding and understand how exclusionary and hurtful they are.
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