I am not a native English speaker and I have sometimes referred to people as male and female (as that is what I have been taught) but I have received some backlash in some cases, especially for the word “female”, is there some negative thought in the word which I am unaware of?

I don’t know if this is the best place to ask, if it’s not appropriate I have no problem to delete it ^^

    • locuester@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Yeah, 2020 is the time period I’m referring to. I had never heard of it being a thing until George Floyd and BLM movement in 2020, then GitHub changed in response to that.

      I’ve been in IT for 35 years. And I never heard a single negative thing about branch names and master/slave terminology until 2020.

      Perhaps you think that was set aside because IDE hard drives are dead.