Wow, thank you for putting a rant that has been a weird cloud in my head into organized paragraphs, that was satisfying. I’m a web dev at an early childhood nonprofit in NYC. Diverse city, working with highly intelligent, sensitive people, who give and design trainings regularly in cultural competency. When I mentioned during a design meeting for a new web app that really we should just be gathering “name” in a single field to allow flexibility - given that firstname lastname really doesn’t describe our diverse set of clients - everyone’s faces turned white, until I hurriedly said “but, of course I won’t, I’m just saying…”
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