Oddbean new post about login | logout Rather than rolling up all the many skills into "non-code," we need to unpack it. Think about who the audience is. Are we trying to attract designers? SAY SO! Are we trying to attract technical writers? SAY SO! As a community and nonprofit professional, you can be sure I won't feel welcome or valued if my skill sets get rolled up in a massive category defining me by what I am supposedly not. Open source community leaders in particular need to step it up here. #OpenSource
One last toot on this thread for now. Because seriously. Would we think it reasonable to write a blog post with the titles like "attracting not-men into open source" or "bringing non-Americans into open source" and expect women, enbies, and the entire rest of the globe to read that and feel welcome? No, and this is no different. The anti-pattern isn't just defining people by what they're not, but also in opposition to a dominating or overrepresented group rather than on their own merits.
@e074433e We are too busy chopping off our dicks and choosing pronouns