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Please remove the gender identifier.
#1
Please remove the gender identifier.
I would like to formally request that those running this site remove all reference to gender from the profile.

This is motivated by this thread:

http://atheistforums.org/thread-33357.html

Here is what I have posted in that thread:

(May 15, 2015 at 2:40 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:
(May 15, 2015 at 1:31 am)ignoramus Wrote: Why are the majority of users'' "gender" status in their bio still showing "undisclosed"?
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It is totally irrelevant to most things that are posted.  You frankly do not need to know, in almost all cases.

I am reminded of something my wife told me.  In her youth, she communicated with people on message boards.  In those days, it was mostly men who did such things.  Since they could not see her, they did not know she was a young girl, and she was treated quite differently than how she was treated in real life.  If she had said she was a young girl, people would not have taken her as seriously as they did.  They communicated with her like an equal.  She found the experience interesting.

So, I recommend that everyone select a gender neutral name (or one that might be taken as gender neutral), and not tell people what one's gender is, unless it is relevant to a specific point, and then only mention it at the time, rather than put it in one's description.

Anyone who believes sexism no longer exists, is an idiot.  In fact, so much of an idiot, that I do not even want to waste any time arguing with such a braindead moron.


So, I, for one, will not put in a gender designation.  I will only do so if one were required by the site.  And given the options that are available here, I would then select "Other."

Really, do you need to know what my genitals are like in order to evaluate my posts?  (Or what I consider my genitals to be, or wish they were, or any other goddamned thing about genitals and how one feels about them?)  Will it make what I state better or worse due to my genitals?  What could possibly be more irrelevant to know?


But I do thank you for bringing up this topic, and I think I may make a suggestion to those who run this site to remove the gender designation entirely.


I think it is best to keep people guessing.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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#2
RE: Please remove the gender identifier.
But, there are people who don't want to keep everyone guessing. How 'bout we leave the gender disclosure, and you do you and let others do others?
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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#3
Please remove the gender identifier.
I'm guessing that you're just mad that they don't have shemale as an option.
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#4
RE: Please remove the gender identifier.
It's not a requirement; it's there for the benefit of those who want to use it. We'd need a lot more than the request of one person before we take away the option for everyone.

(On a related note, I find it interesting that you feel so strongly about gender identifiers and then feel the need to point out that you have a wife. Not strictly speaking a gender identifier in the modern age, of course, but I'm left wondering why you should give away such clues?)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#5
Please remove the gender identifier.
I think there should be at least 52 options for gender.
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#6
RE: Please remove the gender identifier.
My wife just did a "is your brain male or female" test on my behalf from facebook, and it came back that I was 50/50. Well balanced, it said. I would have thought I'd come out slightly more female.
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#7
RE: Please remove the gender identifier.
What? I simply don't get where you're coming from. If you want to tell people your gender, do so. If you don't, then don't. If you want to know someone's gender, and that person is fine with letting you know, then look it up. If either of those things aren't true, then don't.

And you want us to all choose gender-neutral names?! So we're not treated differently?!
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Don't worry, my friend.  If this be the end, then so shall it be.
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#8
RE: Please remove the gender identifier.
Clap Well said.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#9
RE: Please remove the gender identifier.
I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
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#10
RE: Please remove the gender identifier.
Vive la différence!
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