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You are trying to take an interesting discussion about species off on a wildly irrelevant tangent. There is no sexism here and the names are not designed to promote patriarchy.


Why do you assume there is a bias in favor of the first half?

Does the adjective 'Franco-German' reveal an insidious pro-French bias in English?


It's off topic and inflammatory. And this follow up comment reinforces the appearance that the point is basically shit stirring and nothing else.

I talk about sexism pretty regularly on HN. Sometimes it doesn't go well and sometimes it does. You absolutely can discuss sexism here. This is just not a good approach to doing so.




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