I'd probably reject this too from a do-gooder searching github for pronouns to change.
"Get another hobby. Rejected."
Edit: I get not wanting unsolicited input from "do-gooders," but if someone on the project made such a change, would you still reject it?
I don't like the idea of someone poking around to make one-word non-functional changes.
What about typos in docs? Contextually it seems reasonable to accept changes of a single word which may cause confusion on operational grounds.
Is a gendered word really different? Operationally, it would appear differentiating between pronouns might be required in documentation if some readers of the docs are offended by the masculine use. One could certainly argue that with excessive profanity.
I would note here that I probably wouldn't care if someone put 'she' in a document to represent a user entity, but that's a simply an observation of my own biases, not a rational to ignore another's.
I don't get it. Node is an open-source project that accepts unsolicited input in general...is there some objection to "doing good"?
So basically I was trying to sidestep the strawman argument.
I can understand the frustration of someone coming into a project and saying "I've made this change that no one on this project asked for cause the words used were offending me." It seems disrespectful to the hard work everyone is doing to keep the project up and running.
I think people would be a lot more open to things like this if there was some proof that removing gendered pronouns actually did something. It's claimed to make open source less hostile for women. Is there any proof that it's working?
