The assholes are still there. Complaining about language does nothing to get rid of the assholes. They're completely orthogonal activities.

If you wanted to get rid of the assholes - incredibly difficult, because they take many forms - you'd have to reinvent corporate culture in the US to make it less extractive and performative and more substance-based and cooperative.

Reminds me of when Douglas Crockford got removed as a keynote speaker because he made other people uncomfortable because he used the term "gonads" and also did a muscle flex when talking about WeakMap vs StrongMap.

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/50u77r/douglas_...