KDE believes in the power of diversity and inclusion. Women* enrich our community, shaping more inclusive and accessible tech.
💡 Join us in embracing diversity, inclusion and #FOSS. Be part of our Community to inspire inclusion:
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Don’t understand the * in that?? Like are there others included that are not worth mentioning or trying to be “inclusive” without being inclusive? Or is just those people just afterthoughts, footnotes?
Yeah even if there is a worthwhile footnote, that * signals that “there’s a catch, uh oh spaghettios”
If you’re shouting out Non-Binary spectrum, Xenos, Agender, or others too just say so. If we’re talking trans folk, there’s no asterisk needed. If you are looking to include men, what’s the point of shouting out the women, just thank all contributors. The effort is nice but that bit of the execution is pretty flawed and opens up way too much discussion that gives the bigots a platform to yell on.
As a non-binary person myself, I actually hope the asterisk isn’t meant to refer to me. I get offended enough by the common “women and non-binary” phrasing. But to literally include me as a footnote under “women”? If I was a women, I wouldn’t be non-binary.
Not to harp on KDE too much here. Even in queer spaces, enby erasure is annoyingly common.
Entirely fair and valid! Apologies for making it sound like that would be a good thing. Thanks for your input on that.
I’m going to assume that Women was supposed to be in Italics.