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Google Docs to suggest users write using gender-neutral terms (foxbusiness.com)
14 points by cjv 1860 days ago
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> ”a new collaboration tool in the Google Workspace that will bring Dogs, Sheets and Slides together more efficiently”

Is that the gender-neutral form of “Docs?”

I think language regulation are divisive, antiquated, and conductive of a toxic workplace atmosphere.

This isn't even professionalism to me, because it marginalizes formal distance and etiquette to forbidden words. On the contrary, it fails to reflect why professional distance can actually be of benefit in some cases.

This doesn't necessarily include conduct between employees.

There are some reasonable suggestions in the document when you understand its purpose. But some of the suggestions are very ... creative?