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I think itβs the opposite of that. They stopped asking about the gender of the passengers.
Understood, and I should have been more clear. My question was, why ask in the first place?
Probably a mixture of tradition/inertia and old-fashioned identification ideas.
Asking whether they write sir or madam on the ticket as a form of politeness. Sure it helps collecting statistics too.
Conservative are weird, the will be fine with asking sir or madam, but would throw a tantrum if you ask them a pronoum which is exactly the same question
Sure, but is that a reason to make it mandatory? If someone does not want to share the information, then saying "non, we must be polite to you!" doesn't make a lot of sense.
Probably whoever drafted the requirements for the software team just didn't think to add a third option, and the software team didn't want to add additional requirements.
https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/CP250002EN.pdf
"data gathering" basically.
But their reasoning for gathering the data wasn't good enough for the court to allow it, as they basically said "it's so we know how to talk to passengers", but as the court says, they can use less gender-specific wording.
As a form of respect.
That's the excuse, anyway. Only SNCF's marketing department knows if it was the real reason.
In Europe we don't really have the toxic American gender war.
Itβs just how itβs always been. But I guess someone decided to sue.
Team Rainbow making more friends
I wanted to see if you were the same name I remember posting similar eye-roll inducing things in the past but, you know:
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Bonjour Monsieur! (Please don't sue me π±)
That's ok, sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong, I tried to block many of the more extreme left wing progressive instances on this website (there is a lot) but it didn't let me, hopefully in a future patch I can block all lgtbq++ premium content and leave it just for you guys to read and comment on, then you won't have to suffer with me like I do you :(
Thanks again for letting me know you dislike my viewpoints, this means very little to me though as I'm aware that you dislike my viewpoints, you may not believe this but I disagree with some of your viewpoints as well! I just don't go around literally posting that I'm rolling my eyes as you guys seem to do quite often?
Such as? I didn't give any.
If you think a court deciding that it's not necessary for a train company to know your gender is 'extreme left wing progressive' talk, good luck in your delusional pocket of brave little right-wing cis bois. I applaud you for being such a coward that you delete your own comments rather than face criticism.
I wish you the best of luck being part of a belief system that requires that it devour itself. Just remember that when your friends will come for you after they come for us. You'll never be on the inside crowd that you want to be, and one day you'll be on the outside looking in.
What? I donβt delete my comments due to criticism? Where did you see this?
Iβm so confused, one look at my profile shows hours and days of discussion and having to put up with condescending smug crap like this:
Sometimes Iβll post something, realise I donβt care enough about the topic and delete my comment usually within a few minutes