VMware to stop describing hardware as ‘male’ and ‘female’ in new terminology guide
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/07/23/vmware_offensive_terminology_style_guide/
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A message about the IT giant's “Offensive Terminology Effort,” sighted by The Register , recommends that when referring to hardware and cabling, “female” should be replaced by “jack” or “socket” while “plug” should be used instead of “male”. The company hopes that “she” and “he” will be replaced by “they”.
Recommended changes to terms commonly used when describing server virtualization include replacing “kill” with “stop”. The software developer will no longer employ the term “eviction,” used to refer to moving a virtual machine to a new host.
Also in the guide is a recommendation that the word “abort” be replaced by “stop” and that “segregate” and “segregation” be replaced by “separate” and “separation”.
As is the case at many other vendors and open-source projects, references to masters and slaves are no longer welcome.
“Blacklist” and “blackout” are out, replaced by “denylist” and “restrict”. “Black hat” is to be replaced by “unethical”, but “black box”, “black hole” and “black screen” won’t be changed.
VMware also has a list of words it is happy to keep using, namely:
invalid (as an adjective)
masterful
mastermind (as a noun or verb)
masterpiece
master plan
masterstroke
simple
white board
VMware wants to stop using three terms – “ghetto”, “kill switch” and “taint” – but is yet to devise alternatives.
Virtzilla is far from alone in suggesting these changes: Splunk, the Linux kernel, Google, and many others have done likewise in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. The Register has not, however, seen other such guides address hardware or the word “abort”, which is, of course, a loaded term in the USA.
The document we have seen does not indicate how or when VMware intends to implement the guide internally. The Register has inquired after those details and will update this story if and when we receive a substantive response. ®
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@sanmigueelbeer - That's a new low
This is what I call side effect of human reproduction. Giving birth to children and raising them only to see them turning into this kind of individuals.
"It" is the n word equivalent pronoun. Shirley by now with all the advances in AI we should be asking computers what their preferred pronoun is?
Virtue-signalling wankery
I'm getting pretty sick of all this virtue-signalling newspeak wankery.
Funny, I made this precise comment on a Linux-related post a couple of weeks back...
I am totally offended by all their alternative words. They must change them immediately. We cannot have *anyone* offended!
Your use of an exclamation mark, Mark has sent me into an anxious panic. Cease.
You had better take these seriously
If you work for those companies, and even if you do not.
If someone does not like you, especially in HR, then letting them call you racist or sexist is giving them a free kick up your arse and possibly out the door.
Google Damore Google Memo if you have any doubts.
There is nothing nice about people making these changes. They are about power, the power to inflict change on others, and to root out non-conformists.
@aberglas - Re: You had better take these seriously
This reminds me about the building of Communism in my native country about 75 years ago. I always wanted to believe this kind of scenario will remain buried in the past.
Re: @aberglas - You had better take these seriously
This is the coming of the NeoMarxists and we all know how well the Marxist countries are doing..
I am seriously considering emigrating again in order to avoid the total clusterfuck that this is going to bring.
Yeah, good luck going through all code, manuals, KBs, training materials etc and changing those.
@Phil Kingston - Those people are hell bent
on imposing their vision, either you want to accept it or not.
While we're on the subject…
… what does one call the part of the internet with the drug dealers and bomb manuals in now? The lowlit web?
The company hopes that “she” and “he” will be replaced by “ they them" or "it”.
There, FTFY.