"Testimonies from people who experienced harassment or awkward situations ..."
These re-namings always follow the same pattern. Some professionally oppressed people contact a project, provide mostly secret evidence to members of the project's progressive faction.
After the re-naming they are never heard of again.
Coq isn't pronounced like "cock" at all by the French. As a first crude approximation, it is more like "coke".
In the Oxford dictionary, "cock" means "a male bird, esp. a male domestic fowl". There's cockroach, cockpit, cockney ...
So U.S. cultural imperialism wins again.
I'm saying this as a person who had problems with the NNTP "suck" program, so I do understand aversions to names, if they are legitimate.
These re-namings always follow the same pattern. Some professionally oppressed people contact a project, provide mostly secret evidence to members of the project's progressive faction.
After the re-naming they are never heard of again.
Coq isn't pronounced like "cock" at all by the French. As a first crude approximation, it is more like "coke".
In the Oxford dictionary, "cock" means "a male bird, esp. a male domestic fowl". There's cockroach, cockpit, cockney ...
So U.S. cultural imperialism wins again.
I'm saying this as a person who had problems with the NNTP "suck" program, so I do understand aversions to names, if they are legitimate.