The French have, in my opinion, overall a much healthier approach to sexuality than say, the British or Americans and I think there's much we can learn from them.
I don't really think it matters what the origin of the name is any more. The NIPS ML conference changed its name to NeurIPS, Mozilla spent $15K getting rid of the word "slave" in its repos. I personally don't believe this phenomenon is about sexuality per se. It's more of a never ending battle to remove all (real or perceived) traumatizing words from professional use, in the interest of inclusivity.
There was a huge outrage epidemic over the past decade. Video games journalism was in a very dark place for a while as one example. The drive by "code of conduct" assaults on Github projects as another. Mainstream news orgs cashing in on, and a whole new generation of blogger/vloggers riding a tide of outrage porn. Interesting times.
Fair. I feel like some of the communities finally found their voice and their patience for extremism peaked a couple/few years back but.. I also went from consuming most games journalism to barely reading any, so perhaps I'm just not exposed to the drama anymore. Seem to be a lot less drama in the OSS/software world though.
Yeah, but the thing about drama is that for it to be drama there has to be someone saying "No, this behavior is not ok." Those voices have largely been silenced and the behavior proceeds apace.
