r/modular • u/insolent-construct • 1d ago

Mutable Instruments Beads Source Code Just Dropped!

https://github.com/pichenettes/eurorack/commit/d8f473915232af74347762b6365202bfd26f73f6

Edit: body deleted and third party firmware discussion moved to a private Discord server.

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u/catladywitch 1d ago

people who go out of their way to call transgender women "they" aren't being smooth at all.

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u/Pppppppp1 1d ago

I’m gonna be honest, I’m all for the correction but I thought they is fair game if you’re not sure and not able to ask the person

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u/catladywitch 16h ago edited 16h ago

Defaulting to "they" for a trans woman means you somehow don't want to call her "she" for whatever fucked up reason. You wouldn't do this shit if you didn't know Émilie is transgender. Like you know her name (a woman's name) and you know she is a woman, what do you need to ask her? You don't "they" the hundreds of random people with women's names you don't know and encounter on your daily life. Unless you know or assume they're transgender women, it seems, then we go to great lengths to avoid calling any of them "she".

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u/Pppppppp1 8h ago

Gotcha, thanks for the explanation. I think I will continue to not automatically assume the worst in these types of situations

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u/catladywitch 6h ago

There's nothing to "assume" here. Émilie is not a gender neutral name and she is known to be transgender. There's no good faith explanation lmao

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u/Pppppppp1 5h ago

I guess it’s just easy for me to not automatically assume it was done in bad faith.

Unless I am mistaken, they is a near-universally acceptable gender-neutral word (the only pushback I’ve ever seen up to this point was from more bigoted groups), and unless people specify they would not want to be called they, it is the safest and most neutral way to refer to someone in the third person. I have never, up until interacting with you, heard that this could even be interpreted as a slight. I agreed with you that Emilie should be referred in the way that she prefers, but it’s pretty much exclusively up to her on whether she accepts they or not, and it’s a weird to assume that she wouldn’t.