This sounds like trying to change the word "manager" to something else
because someone says having "man" in there makes it sexist....guess we
better start changing our man pages to something else, like doc
pages...but then doctors would get offended and we'd have to change it
again. :)

All joking aside, from what I've learned, the word was coined as an
English term, meaning it should have an English context (which in this
case would mean gender-neutral). Since we are using English as the
primary language in the Ubuntu community, it seems silly to start
changing terms because they don't end in the right letter in some other
language. If we change this word for the Spanish-speaking people, then
we'd have to change it to something else for the Russian-speaking
people, and around and around we go.

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"Ubuntero" inappropriate for female contributors
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