The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

[Thryleon]

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?

Yeah thats what I meant (I wrote that one in a hurry).

The terms seem to have origins of clear racism, and I generally don't have an issue with changing the terminology from Black and white list, black and white hat, good vs evil, black vs white, etc but I just spent 2 years learning terminology, about things, that are universally used in industry, just for the woke police to pull the rug out from underneath it, because of racist connotations.

Now, where you sit on that is up to you, but here is my problem with it.  If you reversed the meaning (white for bad, black for good) I would have no issue with that terminology existing, because I dont associate that with racism.  Black hat, darkness is always associated with things that are obscured, and shining a light on things has always been associated with making things visible which is where I think white list, black list still applies accordingly. 

The true racists are the ones that looked at it, and started having an issue IMHO. 

Even master and slave devices.  Sure, the terms originate from slavery, but with slavery being abolished, eliminating the terms from use in a situation where they describe how the devices interact, is a bit simple if you ask me, and makes me wonder why bother.

Still, I am enlightened enough to understand that these terms do generate a bit of angst, so will evolve with the times as required.