Found this blog post and found it had more insight into the issues around the dev and the toxicity in FOSS
I mean, yes. In some cases on some issues, some people get offended at things that are frankly a waste of anger.
Agreed. Though I’m not sure how this is a good example, as the PR just fixed it without any anger or offence taken.
Then, there was anger after the PR got rejected because apparently being inclusive to women is ‘political’. This is where you can see that the maintainer didn’t just make a mistake, they made a choice and are sticking with it for reasons. This is where it becomes an issue.
Eh it still seems like it isn’t that big of a deal what the words say to me at the root of the issue, as I said if it said “she” which is similarly exclusive not even to men because who cares but to nonbinary people and the like, and the maintainer refused to change it for whatever reason, I still wouldn’t feel too strongly about it even though I’m technically excluded.
Maybe if she said “men can’t use my software” or something I’d feel excluded, but if she just says “eh I’m not changing it to ‘they’ because X” I wouldn’t care.
