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no, because the problem is with pronouns

theres nobody specific in the story. nobody requested a pronoun. if it was that simple then why would any of this happen? its cause this is about pronouns being a problem and people wanting to edit everything to be gender neutral to cater to the perpetually outraged



You're plainly wrong. According to the "fired" mod herself, the issue is centered on SO's (soon to be introduced) policy of using preferred pronouns.

See https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2064709.html

> the company is changing the CoC to require use of preferred pronouns

In other words, it's a policy whereby an individual may request to be addressed a certain way, and that request must be honoured.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

It sounds like you're the one generating false outrage.

NB: It's not exactly clear how/if she violated anything, in fact, it sounds to me like she did nothing wrong. But that's not the point I'm making: The point is that everything stems from this new policy.




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