So a request to make documentation more gender neutral resulted in Ladybird krufekull?
It was always assumed, and some documentation have it mentioned explicitly, that presence of gender specific like he/him/etc in text should be seen as gender neutral. Maybe Andreas Kling should have rejected the request with the statement: “Any mention of he/him/etc pronoun mentioned in the documentation is gender blind and does not exclude other genders” or something similar and not “This project is not an appropriate arena to advertise your personal politics. A little subtle.
Though one question remains, why would gender pronouns in documentation have a bearing on being excluded? Even if the documentation is gender neutral it still does not assure that there will not be any gender based discrimination. And vice-versa too, presence of a specific gender based pronouns in documentation does not mean that other genders are discriminated.
Document text does not determine or preclude gender based discrimination. Rather gender based discrimination is in the mind and attitudes of the practitioner. Gender neutral documentation is hardly going to influence that.
Am I missing something over here?