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The Mandatory Gender Choice

AHRAHR
edited 2011-01-08 16:27:05 in IJBM meta
Dammit vanilla forums! I WANT TO BE AMBIGUOUS.
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  • AondeugAondeug


    I was more bugged by the lack of other options. God dammit I want to be a fucking toaster.
  • AHRAHR
    I'd be cool with that as well.
  • AondeugAondeug
    You look so odd without an avatar, Turk...
  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    But you never had any to begin with.
    I'll take your topic title, and expand it to ANYTHING that forces you to make a mandatory choice between "male" and "female".
  • AnonusAnonus
    I don't really care, myself.
  • AHRAHR
    edited 2011-01-08 16:35:05
    There. Now I'm as generic as the rest of you! :P
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    It annoys me now that it's been pointed out to me.
  • Super LazuliSuper Lazuli
    yea i make potions if ya know what i mean
    I picked "female" because why not.
  • AHRAHR
    I didn't click anything, so I think I'm currently male, but I don't wanna be male. Become male, and I'm misogynist and generic. Be female, and suddenly I'm out of the norm and a teenage girl.

    I don't want to be either.
  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    But you never had any to begin with.
    Checking your profile confirms that you are counted as male.
  • AHRAHR
    Curses.
  • Super LazuliSuper Lazuli
    yea i make potions if ya know what i mean
    CURSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

    is the proper way to say it, AHR.
  • AHRAHR
    You know, this prolly should have gone in the general section...
  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    But you never had any to begin with.
    Well, it applies to IJBM on a technicality, so...
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    I sent an email to vanillaforums support about this. Hopefully they will respond.
  • AHRAHR
    edited 2011-01-08 16:48:15
    Worse comes to worst, we just all pretend to be transexual agenders.
  • LouieWLouieW
    Loser
    Yeah, I mentioned this in the new site layout topic.

    The one thing I can say I dislike about this forum is the whole
    mandatory "setting a gender" thing in your profile. Right now I am using
    the default, but I suppose I could switch it everyday since that kind
    of thing is classified for me anyway.
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    edited 2011-01-08 18:22:17
    (void)
    I got a response back from a vanillaforums guy.
    «Hi William, that option is there purely for activity reports like "Henry changed his profile picture". How would you suggest we solve this problem with no gender specification?»
    My suggestion was to use the singular they.
  • LongfellowLongfellow
    edited 2011-01-08 18:12:44
    La vie en rose
    Yeah, I kinda like the Something Awful classification of female, male, and porpoise. Anything besides the regular boring two.

    ^ Henry changed his or her profile picture, too.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    I know both of your genders anyway. Ironically, they stuck in my head precisely because you want to be ambiguous so much. Talking about it tends to make people curious, too. Hell, I don't think I ever found out, say, Aondeug's gender and I don't really care. I just default to guessing male because that's how I roll.

    I don't see what the big deal is, but that's just my two cents.
  • Super LazuliSuper Lazuli
    yea i make potions if ya know what i mean
    I think they should add "neuter", personally.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    edited 2012-07-22 16:38:28

    …

  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    Same here.
  • thatguythere47thatguythere47
    I'm biologically a guy, but I voted liberal so I could have went either way really. 
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    Hey William. We require gender only to format pronouns in the activity
    stream. I understand the issue and I wish we had made the sentences
    work in a general neutral fashion from the get-go, but this is a
    pretty big change at this point. I'm also not sure what the
    repercussions would be on other language translations. I know that we
    had to add more gender specifications in so that the eastern European
    languages could properly format things.

    So, sorry this probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but I
    hope you can see where we are coming from here.

    ---
    Todd Burry
    Co-founder, Vanilla Forums Inc
  • thatguythere47thatguythere47
    It's kind of awesome that they actually took the time to reply. 
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    It is indeed.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    Great service.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Agreed.  Poni, you should compliment them on their service and thank them for their reply.

    That said, I would like a "neuter" choice too, at least.  It always bugged me that Spanish nouns only had masculine and feminine genders.  I much preferred the fact that Latin had a neuter gender.
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    I indeed complimented and thanked them.

    As for the Latin neuter, using that for a person is...insulting, to say the least.  It's like calling a person «it».
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