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Facebook adds 56 Gender options to choose from
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Facebook adds 56 Gender options to choose from
(February 28, 2014 at 8:52 pm)futilethewinds Wrote:
(February 28, 2014 at 8:46 pm)paulpablo Wrote: They could have really just had a blank box for the person to fill in themselves to make it simple.

But it's a pretty interesting list, I've just been looking at the "two spirit" gender and I didn't even know that existed before.
Technically, anyone who is gay, bisexual, transgender, or genderqueer could be described as "two-spirited". It's cool that this is associated with more mystical power in Native American cultures, but that also just emphasizes our "otherness". Shamans, witch doctors, etc. are often isolated from the rest of a tribe.

Two-spirit doesn't really accurately describe transgendered individuals. The Native American tradition of the Beardache, where a man would assume a female role and had the option of taking a husband, was based in the idea that a feminine spirit inhabited a male body, not "two spirits". If Facebook was seeking all-inclusiveness, it's an oversight.

(March 1, 2014 at 4:12 pm)futilethewinds Wrote:
(March 1, 2014 at 4:10 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Talk about missing the forest for the trees.

The gendered slur was "bitch" and the thought terminating cliche was the first part.

It is not my fault you or Mr. Montcrieff or whatever can't handle reversed ordered terms.

My point stands.

The quote involved both qualities.

It was left an exercise to the reader to decide which belong to what - an exercise that some readers evidently failed.
Sorry, I don't use "bitch" as a gendered term. I use it to describe men and women interchangeably.

That's an exercise in semantic gymnastics. I also use "cunt" and "ravenous slampig" to describe men and women interchangeably. Allow me to demonstrate:

"Go cunt off in some other thread, you ravenous slampig."

This can't possibly be offensive, because it's gender-neutral.

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RE: Facebook adds 56 Gender options to choose from - by TaraJo - February 15, 2014 at 10:54 pm
RE: Facebook adds 56 Gender options to choose from - by c172 - February 15, 2014 at 10:54 pm
RE: Facebook adds 56 Gender options to choose from - by KUSA - February 15, 2014 at 11:36 pm
RE: Facebook adds 56 Gender options to choose from - by Violet - February 22, 2014 at 12:45 am
RE: Facebook adds 56 Gender options to choose from - by Nine - February 21, 2014 at 1:09 pm
RE: Facebook adds 56 Gender options to choose from - by Violet - February 26, 2014 at 10:56 pm
Facebook adds 56 Gender options to choose from - by Rampant.A.I. - March 3, 2014 at 2:41 pm

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