After a few days of ruminating, though, I tried to forgive myself and be honest about my intentions. Though I had made something that was not inclusive, I hadn’t intended to do so. I was just trying to explore the themes I was interested in, and had failed to be aware of my own biases.

The fact that you took the note, recognized the problem, and are taking steps to address it and prevent future misunderstandings is really all that matters here. It also demonstrates some rare creative humility.

I admit now I’m really curious about the implications and marginalization you referenced. And the fact that they were genuinely unintentional makes them more interesting. Based on your response it’s clear you’re thoughtful and introspective- so I’m really wondering about the scale of this ‘transgression’. My instinct is that it was pretty trivial and I might think the creator was being a bit heavy-handed, but I have no basis for that assumption other than your reasonable response.

I’ll show you my backspace style!

Reasonably priced and good content streaming is why I stopped downloading everything I wanted from newsgroups. That’s going away so guess I need to get back to downloading.

Can’t get very excited about space missions where I have little hope that they’ll be conducted openly and important scientific information shared with the world.

Seriously- how is this not a selling point?