Profiles - Gender

So we should take the easy road over the righteous road?

Alethea Thompson wrote: What else could you identify as?

Born Male identify as Male: Male
Born Male identify as Female: Female
Born Female identify as Female: Female
Born Female identify as Male: Male

I'm being legit- what are the genders out there that people identify as? If we look at Tumblr, the list is ENORMOUS. The only real solution would be to have write ins. And even then, the problem we are still going to run into is pronouns. Because if someone identifies as Neutrois (which I just picked up off a random list) or gender nuetral it's going to be difficult for anyone to sit there and figure out which pronoun fits when addressing that person in the third person. (I mean, don't get me wrong, the other solution is to just constantly refer to them by their name, but even then the problem is that it gets to a point where putting someone's name constantly in a paragraph looks condescending And that's not typically the intent when dealing with unknowns of gender pronouns).

If we include various genders, we must also include a "Preferred pronoun" section, which would also need to be written in.

Or, conversely, we can get rid of gender listings altogether.

Or, we can just add the option for 'other'... which is what I suggested 12 pages ago before this whole thing turned into a farce.

Perhaps a poll vote would settle the debate without further harm done?

Edan wrote:

Alethea Thompson wrote: What else could you identify as?

Born Male identify as Male: Male
Born Male identify as Female: Female
Born Female identify as Female: Female
Born Female identify as Male: Male

I'm being legit- what are the genders out there that people identify as? If we look at Tumblr, the list is ENORMOUS. The only real solution would be to have write ins. And even then, the problem we are still going to run into is pronouns. Because if someone identifies as Neutrois (which I just picked up off a random list) or gender nuetral it's going to be difficult for anyone to sit there and figure out which pronoun fits when addressing that person in the third person. (I mean, don't get me wrong, the other solution is to just constantly refer to them by their name, but even then the problem is that it gets to a point where putting someone's name constantly in a paragraph looks condescending And that's not typically the intent when dealing with unknowns of gender pronouns).

If we include various genders, we must also include a "Preferred pronoun" section, which would also need to be written in.

Or, conversely, we can get rid of gender listings altogether.

Or, we can just add the option for 'other'... which is what I suggested 12 pages ago before this whole thing turned into a farce.

Other does not address preferred pronoun usage.

Desolous wrote:

Edan wrote:

Alethea Thompson wrote: What else could you identify as?

Born Male identify as Male: Male
Born Male identify as Female: Female
Born Female identify as Female: Female
Born Female identify as Male: Male

I'm being legit- what are the genders out there that people identify as? If we look at Tumblr, the list is ENORMOUS. The only real solution would be to have write ins. And even then, the problem we are still going to run into is pronouns. Because if someone identifies as Neutrois (which I just picked up off a random list) or gender nuetral it's going to be difficult for anyone to sit there and figure out which pronoun fits when addressing that person in the third person. (I mean, don't get me wrong, the other solution is to just constantly refer to them by their name, but even then the problem is that it gets to a point where putting someone's name constantly in a paragraph looks condescending And that's not typically the intent when dealing with unknowns of gender pronouns).

If we include various genders, we must also include a "Preferred pronoun" section, which would also need to be written in.

Or, conversely, we can get rid of gender listings altogether.

Or, we can just add the option for 'other'... which is what I suggested 12 pages ago before this whole thing turned into a farce.

Other does not address preferred pronoun usage.

That's why I suggested 'other - please ask'.

Yea but then what about the people who don't want to be asked?

ren wrote: Yea but then what about the people who don't want to be asked?

If you don't want anyone to ask... surely you wouldn't put anything in the first place...

ren wrote: Yea but then what about the people who don't want to be asked?

Other, and its none of your business lol!

A 13 page thread about a box I admittedly never paid much attention to... I guess we're all paying attention now, though I don't know that we've accomplished a whole lot :dry:

Hey, ren. If you ever come back from being on strike, can we change the site color scheme while we're at it? :whistle: :evil:

Senan wrote: A 13 page thread about a box I admittedly never paid much attention to... I guess we're all paying attention now, though I don't know that we've accomplished a whole lot :dry:

Hey, ren. If you ever come back from being on strike, can we change the site color scheme while we're at it? :whistle: :evil:

What color would you have it be?