www/philosophy kind-communication.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       18/10/31 12:09:24

Modified files:
        philosophy     : kind-communication.html 

Log message:
        Improve the footnote.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/kind-communication.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.7&r2=1.8

Patches:
Index: kind-communication.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/kind-communication.html,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -b -r1.7 -r1.8
--- kind-communication.html     25 Oct 2018 20:45:02 -0000      1.7
+++ kind-communication.html     31 Oct 2018 16:09:24 -0000      1.8
@@ -120,14 +120,15 @@
 <h3 style="font-size:1em">Footnote</h3>
 <ol>
   <li id="f1">
-    <p>There are various ways to express gender neutrality in
-      third-person singular pronouns in English.  One method, used by
-      many, is singular use of &ldquo;they.&rdquo;  Another method is
-      described in
-      <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html";>
-        https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html</a>.
-      (Using &ldquo;he or she&rdquo; fails to respect gender
-      identities other than male and female.)</p>
+    <p>Honoring people's preferences about gender identity includes
+       not referring to them in ways that conflict with that identity.
+       For instance, not to use pronouns for them that conflict with it.
+       There are several ways to avoid that; one way is to use
+       gender-neutral pronouns, since they don't conflict with any
+       possible gender identity.  One such pronoun is singular use of
+       &ldquo;they.&rdquo; Another is
+       &ldquo;<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html";>
+       person</a>.&rdquo;</p>
   </li>
 </ol>
 
@@ -180,6 +181,7 @@
 
 <p>Copyright &copy; 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
 
+
 <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
 href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
 Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
@@ -188,7 +190,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/10/25 20:45:02 $
+$Date: 2018/10/31 16:09:24 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>