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by jodrellblank 2455 days ago
> Wasn't monica fired for suggesting she used gender neutral pronouns generally?

In the comments to the linked question, Monica Cellio says StackOverflow have not told her what parts of the CoC she was violating. I don't think it's public knowledge why she was demodded.

(Is 'fired' an appropriate word to use, when Monica wasn't an employee?)
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detaro 2455 days ago
The most direct statement seems to be from https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/01/stack_exchange_cont...

> Asked to confirm that Cellio was the moderator in question, a company spokesperson said, "Cellio (she/her) would not use stated pronouns, which violates our current CoC …

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lesstenseflow 2455 days ago
Also from that article:

> Cellio, for what it's worth, does not include any preferred pronouns on her Twitter account.

Yet, when they refer to her, Stack Exchange puts pronouns next to her name, clearly against her own “preferences.” It’s like they’re literally forcing onto her an ideology or worldview which they know she does not share.

What bizarre, hypocritical, vindictive behavior from Stack Exchange.

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matheusmoreira 2453 days ago
> (Is 'fired' an appropriate word to use, when Monica wasn't an employee?)

Ben Noordhuis wasn't an employee of Joyent either but that didn't stop them from symbolically firing him:

> While we would fire Ben over this, node.js is an open source project and one doesn't necessarily have the same levers.

https://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun

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