The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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We have big issues in general.

In IT terms like blacklist and white list are starting to be allowed.

Also master and slave devices are going lots of confusion is the likely result.

Did you mean disallowed?

I read somewhere the other day the bloke(he, them, they, it, thing did I miss one I don't want to be accused of pigeon holing anyone!) that hosts Australian Survivor is no longer allowed to say his catch phrase when the teams enter tribal, "Come on in guys!" is banned, because it's a sexist label!

Do these people know of the existence of the word misandry?

Anyway, isn't the use of the term guys, not unlike the use of the word man in the title of the famous book, "The Descent of Man"? (btw., I hear a lobby group is trying to have that book banned as well. They had tried to get it scuppered on religious grounds and failed, now they are having a crack based on sexism!) :o

Personally I'd like the alphabet banned, I find it is exclusive and divisive because I feel I'm not part of LGBQITAX+!, why can't I have a letter or symbol?

Also I notice whenever one of the major categories gets too many members they crack out a new subdivision/subset, I think that is being deliberately bigoted and discriminating against those not in the category or left behind! They want to be part of the whole, provided they can have a special label, is this separatism?