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I wish this were an April Fools joke, but sadly, it's real.

Reminds me of when they changed the factory_girl gem to factory_bot.

Many, many, many hours wasted in service to the idea that women found factory_girl to be offensive, which had less than 0 evidence to it.

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People will find a way to interpret anything with gender as offensive. Like people complain about the default voice of assistants like Siri being female, saying that female was picked because people want women to be subservient to them. But if you made those assistants male voiced by default, it could still be spun as being misogynist with a reason like: people think men are more intelligent and therefore want a man to answer their questions.

Seems that Apple realized that they can't win with either of those as the default, so now the default voice is one that's intended to be ambiguous.

Well at least it seems to have eclipsed the trend of changing "master" repository branches to "main".

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