[mindcrime]

OTOH, I had no opinion about Joyent before, and now have a lower'ish opinion of them. This seems like a combination of over-reaction, obsessive "PC" thinking, and an attempt to mask a potential PR gaffe.

If Joyent cares so much about gender equality, I imagine that there are more concrete actions they could take to encourage that, than threatening to fire somebody who isn't even an employee - over a pronoun.

[brown9-2]

It's not the pronoun, it's the bad attitude and commit reversal.

[manish_gill]

Calling people asshole and "firing" them instead of initiating a discussion is also bad attitude.