It's not just google, a whole bunch of tech companies in California seem to have adopted the same gender neutral narrative... Requiring employees to take courses on gender/racial bias, and removing gender/offensive terms from code.
Example phrases that are considered offensive now:
I remember being told that “brain storming” was no good anymore and had to be replaced by “blue skying”. Something about the mentally handicapped people’s brains being incapable of “storming”.
It's not just google, a whole bunch of tech companies in California seem to have adopted the same gender neutral narrative... Requiring employees to take courses on gender/racial bias, and removing gender/offensive terms from code.
Example phrases that are considered offensive now:
why the fuck is sanity check offensive???
The bs reasoning given to me was that it's offensive to people with mental problems.
I remember being told that “brain storming” was no good anymore and had to be replaced by “blue skying”. Something about the mentally handicapped people’s brains being incapable of “storming”.