Hi Peter,

The only thing remotely political about this article are your comments.

Richard

How am I bullying, I’m just stating an opinion and also pointing out that in my opinion this site should stick to technology and avoid devise culture stuff.

The thing is I believe everyone should be able to voice their opinion and dislike when people try to ban/cancel people for having an opinion that isn’t the norm, but like I said I came here for tech stuff.

But it isn’t a political correct term. If the person was in drag, would you not just say drag, if they identify as trans would you not just say trans. Using these words does not mean you agree with the concept etc. it is just the established word.

By putting in fake women you have in my opinion made the article technically political in the sense that you have given your stance on trans/drag etc. when it isn’t really needed.

I mean I’m not either of these but if someone was who was a fan of this site, it may put them off.

The thing is I believe that there is problems on each side of the spectrum. I just would prefer if this site would stick to the tech and avoid seemingly to show a side.

I remember someone wrote an article about tomb raider and would never play it because they where a man and as if it was wrong to play as a female character and I’m reading thinking it’s a game.

Hi Peter,
Thanks for the comment. But I must disagree with you a bit.

First, you mentioned that you see a lot of political items on this site. I don’t think I have ever read anything political on DCT. I cannot recall any references to politics, political races, politicians, or state affairs, etc. on DCT. I think what you are saying is that we at DCT are not politically correct enough. I cannot speak for the others here, but speaking for myself, I agree. I see political correctness as a way of distorting reality through vocabulary. It is a way of using language to manipulate concepts instead of being factually accurate. In the article, I used two politically correct terms. In retrospect, I should not have used the politically correct terms either.

Second, this is an article about a media company misrepresenting content. Sports Illustrated portraying men as women is similar to Sports Illustrated portraying computers as human writers. Therefore, I think it is relevant to the article. It shows the changes in standards that the new publishers at Sports Illustrated have made in recent years.

As for the term “Fake Women”, that is a heading. I could have used “Human’s With XY Chromosomes Dressed In The Clothing Of Humans With XX Chromosomes” but that is too wordy for a heading.

Peter, have a Happy New Year!

I’m seeing a lot of stuff on this site that’s getting very political etc. and moving away from the tech side.

I’m not one for saying people shouldn’t be able to share opinions but I don’t really see how this was relevant and also not the correct term either

Hey GrannyGeek,

In my articles, I blame all poor grammar and awkward phrasing on our editor (Richard). Of course, I take full credit for all correct grammar and elegant phrasing :).

Happy New Year