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by thrownaway564 1877 days ago
their explanation: it's "gendered and not inclusive"
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"hacker" isn't gendered.

> 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

My daughter will be a hacker if she wants to follow in her old mans footsteps. Please don't take that away from her.
mines only 6, shes defeated some child locks and found a "cheat" in one of her kid games on the iPad and presses every button on every machine she sees. Hack the planet kiddo!!
Good! we'll need her in a few years once these kids' anxiety drives them out of the wokeforce
And what's wrong with husband? Or housekeeping?

How am I supposed to talk about my husband doing the housekeeping?

you say

"My Man Spouse is doing the domestic science"

Not sure about housekeeping but husband is gendered so I assume that is the "problem".
That seems like they don’t understand the word. I can’t think of many more communities more inclusive than hackers. It’s certainly not gendered either.

Are all gendered words banned?

Oh boy! No having cash cows or taking bullshit, or taking a gander, or goosing the numbers, etc., etc.

What the hell happened to us?!