[burneraccount12]

Oh really? So if you had an open chest wound you'd say, "Worrying about bleeding to death is specious. There are always mortal wounds to worry about. That doesn't mean I can't worry about what color my fingernails are"?

[thereare5lights]

Thank you for proving my point. Your example relies on degrees of severity, urgency, and closeness to the problem to make sense.

If we apply that to the original problems you brought up, we see that your argument is indeed specious.

[burneraccount12]

I don't follow.

If we apply degrees of severity, urgency and closeness to the two problems the use of pronouns on programming websites does not rank as severe or urgent relative to...almost anything else in the universe.

But please, spend more energy arguing this point -- definitely a productive use of everyone's time, complaining about pronoun implementation.

[thereare5lights]

It's pretty clear you don't want to follow. The point is quite clear. This is a subjective issue. Your ordering of what problems should be tackled first is not likely going to be the same as anyone else's.

To someone else, this may be a the most prioritized problem for any range of reasons from being the most important or being the one that they can make the most progress on at the moment.

But please, continue to hide behind burner accounts and spend more energy arguing this point -- definitely a productive use of everyone's time, complaining about which problems other people focus on.

[burneraccount12]

LOL, OK. You go ahead and make how we use pronouns on software Q&A websites "the most prioritized problem" right now -- definitely makes sense.

Women face real harassment in the tech every day, I see it firsthand.

If you're LGBTQ it's even worse.

But you know what? Let's not focus our energy on solving those kind of real-world problems. You're right. Definitely let's spend weeks writing long-winded blog posts arguing about pronouns.

You've demonstrably made the world a better place.

[thereare5lights]

> LOL, OK. You go ahead and make how we use pronouns on software Q&A websites "the most prioritized problem" right now -- definitely makes sense.

To trans people, it very well could be.

> Women face real harassment in the tech every day, I see it firsthand.

And so do trans people. I see it first hand.

> If you're LGBTQ it's even worse.

Lol, you bring this up, but you don't realize it hurts your argument.

> But you know what? Let's not focus our energy on solving those kind of real-world problems. You're right. Definitely let's spend weeks writing long-winded blog posts arguing about pronouns.

Yes, because they're not connected at all /s.

> You've demonstrably made the world a better place.

I like how you destroyed your own argument.

[burneraccount12]

LOL OK. If anything this kind of frivolous, nonsensical argument you're proffering here undermines the rights of the LGBTQ community, allowing conservatives to easily dismiss their actual meaningful concerns as liberal hogwash.

So, please, keep setting back the cause of minorities and those discriminated against by making pronouns the hill on which to die on.

Way to fight for the oppressed! If we had 10,000x of you maybe all rights for the discriminated would be repealed, no?