Yes, yes they were. The were asking him to yield a belief that pronouns cannot be chosen by the referent, by making him so choose.

They literally did not. If I ask you your height, are you choosing your height?

But I don't actually want to continue this conversation with you. I appreciate your point of you, I just do not agree with it in any capacity. Best of luck and have a good day.

His point of view is not mine. I'm just not allowing others to strawman the beliefs he stated in the article.

That's a strawman, though. Nobody made him yield anything.

This comment says it better than I did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36301642

That's fine. He felt a ridiculous way and acted childishly about it, and was fired.

Oh well. Hope he learns from his childish behavior.