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> "To the women readers/watchers: I apologize for saying "guys" in a few places referring to groups of people" As a non-native speaker, isn't "guys" a correct term regardless of the gender?
If I address a mixed gender group, and I ask that "all the guys" raise their hand, everybody will know that I mean men only.
I just wish people and companies would get over this "react(ive)" naming fetish. It reminds me of back in the late 90's when everything was Web-this and Web-that. It makes the distinctions really hard to google for. React, reactive, functional-reactive, etc. Overloading gets in the way of learning and progress.
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Not really. It's still a microaggression in gender-sensitive contexts (such as women in tech)
There's malice and then there's perception. One could certainly look at just about any colloquialism without intended malice and draw "microaggression" from it. Knowing where to draw that line is not - nor has it ever been - universal.
Microaggressions are insidious precisely because they're so innocuous; they let well-intentioned people participate unwittingly in systemic oppression that they would never consciously support.
If you're noticing yourself get a bit defensive about this idea, forget the word itself and just frame it like this:
You're a well-meaning person, and you want to avoid causing unnecessary harm with your words. So when you're around people who have really different life experiences than you, how do you make sure you don't cause harm without meaning to?
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The amount of work is simple: h1 { font-size: 5vw; } The `vw` units are relative to the page width. You would rather have to press the right arrow key 50 times? I find it to be a whole lot faster to scroll quickly through content rather than forcing me to click through every single damn slide. EDIT: It is interesting that the vw/vh units don't take zoom into effect, I hadn't thought of that. Interesting.
actually, yes. Compared to scrolling football fields to get to the next item, a one-push interaction would be better.
But it is useful to walk through each slide with a keypress, so I'll probably add that feature as well. I want both.
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Given the fluidity of language, I'd say it's common enough that it is now correct as a gender-neutral address, like "folks" or :shudder: "y'all."
Not really. It's still a microaggression in gender-sensitive contexts (such as women in tech)
HN this is disappointing.
> "To the women readers/watchers: I apologize for saying "guys" in a few places referring to groups of people" As a non-native speaker, isn't "guys" a correct term regardless of the gender?
No. If I address a mixed gender group, and I ask that "all the guys" raise their hand, everybody will know that I mean men only.
> "To the women readers/watchers: I apologize for saying "guys" in a few places referring to groups of people" As a non-native speaker, isn't "guys" a correct term regardless of the gender?
it is a correct term, however it is not gender neutral. unfortunately, english doesn't really have a good gender neutral set of pronouns, so you have to make due.
Man - gender neutral or gender unknown Woman - gender specific - of the female gender Werman - gender specific - of the male gender
It is just that, other than in werwolf, we forgot wer as a prefix.
> "To the women readers/watchers: I apologize for saying "guys" in a few places referring to groups of people" As a non-native speaker, isn't "guys" a correct term regardless of the gender?
No. If I address a mixed gender group, and I ask that "all the guys" raise their hand, everybody will know that I mean men only.
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Not really. It's still a microaggression in gender-sensitive contexts (such as women in tech)
Meanwhile in the real world everyone, including women, addresses a group of people as 'guys' - even a group that's entirely women. I'm not saying this is right or wrong but saying it's an aggression against women is a bit much.
No, that's simply false. Sure, lots of people do it. Everyone does not.
After getting tired of scrolling (which reminded me of this http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h... where you scroll through vast distances to appreciate how far apart things in our solar system are) and noticing the huge headings separated by large vertical whitespace, I had an idea: since the headings are so huge, I could just zoom way out and see and read all the headings! Unfortunately, th…
It's not actually figuring anything out. The header is specified in vw units, which are relative to the size of the viewport.