I personally understand the disappointment of plowing labour into a concept and it not bearing fruit; design silo is disaster.

The response from the community is not a personal attack, it is one generally grounded in the reality of the constraints of the language.

Leave your feelings at the door.

Rinse repeat, and try again.

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On 02/08/2024 14:21, Richard Hodges via Std-Proposals wrote:

> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 1 Aug 2024, at 13:13, Jonathan Wakely via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> 
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>> On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 11:35, organicoman via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>>> Hello Gents,
>>> (gents is and abbreviation of gentiles, you can add any postfix to make it gender aware: men, women, alien)
>>
>> No, that's not what it means in English, but even if it did ... you're including women but excluding Jewish people?
>> Why not just avoid the word "gents"?
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> Oh God…
>
>>> Positivity is key attribute in a community. Please advocate for it.
>>
>> You could start by not using exclusionary language when it's already been pointed out once.
>
> Not this nonsense please. Leave it to the Rust mob to create imaginary social divisions through convoluted interpretation of common language.
>
> C++ is for solving engineering problems. If you want to create social problems, do it somewhere else.
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