Re: Free Software and the New Sexism

O 27/08/23 ás 11:54, Taylan Kammer escribiu:
> I genuinely care about sexism.  The commonly recognized kind, that targets women.
> For nearly 10 years now I've also been following very closely the conflict between
> feminists and the transgender movement, mostly siding with the feminists.

The only conflict comes from TERFs, and it's one sided hate.

> The most popular CoC, now adopted even by Linux (the kernel), is written by a male
> person who identifies as a woman.

No surprise you are transphobic.

> This leads to a situation where certain feminist positions are immediately branded as
> "transphobic" and censored. 

Because they are transphobic. See the previous quote.

> (It doesn't help that many women, as in female humans,
> join in on the knee-jerk reaction, and say that any feminism not 100% supportive of
> the transgender movement must be "fake,"

Yes. Real feminist don't want anyone to suffer discrimination.

> As an example of such knee-jerk reactions and consequent censorship, please look into
> the Guix mailing list archives from 2022 February and March and make up your own mind
> on whether I deserved to be hounded out of that community after I've suggested the
> CoC should include the word "sex" (as in whether a person is female or male) in the
> long list of characteristics based on which a person could be facing discrimination.
> It's quite astonishing to me that this was omitted in the first place.

Because it isn't. See line 11 on 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/CODE-OF-CONDUCT

> I suspect I will be chased off from many more places where I share this, because of
> this illogical conflation of ideological criticism with "hateful" views.

Nah, it's because no one wants to hear another rambling about CoCs which 
amount to «I've said bad things and they expel^W cancelled me for no 
reason».

As for this poster, it violates the last post of the Kind Communication 
Guidelines, so this thread should be closed.