The difficulty is that a woman who really is interested in the guy would also often politely decline all his advances, knowing that she's egging in on in some other way. It's how people flirt.
If a woman says no, how can you distinguish "really no" from "I like being chased, more please"? PC people will claim it's always the former, but actual couples often got together in the latter way.
Because it's pretty damn obvious when someone doesn't like you versus when they are being playfully coy. If you can't tell then just back off and assume they are not interested. Because if you can't tell then they are probably not interested.
I don't think much is lost. The Ada Initiative is mostly involved in sensitivity education. This is important, of course, but there are a lot of organizations that do the same thing.
I think that there are other organizations that are more effective for your charity dollar. This includes Outreachy, whose success can be measured.
I really like it. Unfortunately, it is not clear what license ETBembo carries, if any. In fact Tufte indicated that ETBembo is not public. So it may not be legal to use it. I think that Dejavu serif is an acceptable (superior?) substitution.
Are you sure that doesn't just refer to a preference for using 'they/them' as opposed to 'him' when it's a generic singular pronoun? People who knew her are using "her":
It's unlikely that they meant "preferred pronoun" to be about a singular person generally, since it commonly refers to preferences about oneself.
People often use pronouns other than the ones someone prefers for a variety of reasons: sometimes the preferred pronoun is new, sometimes people forget, sometimes people don't respect that person's preferred pronoun.
> It's unlikely that they meant "preferred pronoun" to be about a singular person generally, since it commonly refers to preferences about oneself.
Without more context, even in that case, it could be either 2nd or 3rd person. Queen Elizabeth, for instance, might put her preferred pronoun as 'we', but you'd still write about her.
So ... I wrote that, and it's worth mentioning that I knew Noirin before the preference for different pronouns was stated. That is, I knew Noirin, as mentioned in my blog post, during the ASF days, before they moved away from ASF activity into other areas of activism. Thus, I used the pronoun which was preferred at the time of our acquaintance. Much like people that knew me as a kid call me "Richard" and people that knew me in college call me "Rich", likewise, people that knew Noirin earlier and later will likely use different pronouns, based on the norms at the time. No disrespect is meant, just fond memories of a too-short friendship.
If by "stringing him along" you mean declined every single advance made by him.
"No thanks" should be more than enough.