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7 years 2 months ago - 7 years 2 months ago #260383 by JamesSand
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No.
We do not have better things to do than care of our members.
Ever.


Caring for members is one thing. I'm all for it. Support were support is due.

Self indulgent semantic stance-taking, finger pointing, and inane debate is not so much "caring for members" as the pseudo-social awareness version of jacking it.

Especially on an international forum, where getting distressed about nuances in synonyms in one language looks fairly ridiculous.

it was changed to sex


My passport says "Sex/Sexe"

As a word - if it's good enough for passports, it's good enough for here.
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7 years 2 months ago #260384 by steamboat28
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JamesSand wrote: Caring for members is one thing. I'm all for it. Support were support is due.

Self indulgent semantic stance-taking, finger pointing, and inane debate is not so much "caring for members" as the pseudo-social awareness version of jacking it.

Especially on an international forum, where getting distressed about nuances in synonyms in one language looks fairly ridiculous.


The difference between "gender" and "sex" is not a "nuance in synonyms." We have plenty of members on this international forum who might be personally affected by these decisions.
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7 years 2 months ago #260385 by ren
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How so?
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7 years 2 months ago #260399 by steamboat28
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...because it forces them to choose between their identity and a metric that they don't feel identifies them at all?
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7 years 2 months ago #260404 by ren
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No-one's forced to do anything. The option not to answer remains an option.

Gender is a metric that identifies significantly less people than Sex.

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7 years 2 months ago #260405 by steamboat28
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ren wrote: Gender is a metric that identifies significantly less people than Sex.

Care to quote a statistic on that, or are we going on your traditional ultra-conservative, "everybody but me is wrong", ostrich-head-in-the-socio-political-sand ramblings here?
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