Facebook adds 56 Gender options to choose from

[houseofcantor]

Fine, I don't have one for the drugs. Us agender folks get the best drugs. Now you know my secret.

Now you're just being spiteful because i brought up the gay thing.

[Psykhronic]

Fine, I don't have one for the drugs. Us agender folks get the best drugs. Now you know my secret.

Now you're just being spiteful because i brought up the gay thing.

I'M JUST TRYING TO GET YOU TO UNDERSTAAAAND

/tears all around

[EgoRaptor]

The thing that really surprises me is they put "Neither" as an option; not only is "neither" not applicable when there are 57 other options, but I cannot fathom the person who refuses to recognise themselves as belonging to any gender. It's one thing to think that "I have a penis, but I know I'm supposed to be a girl," and another thing to think "you know what, I'm not comfortable as either male or female, so I've just decided I'm giving up on having a gender." One of them can make sense. I really hope you can understand which one does.

"A former catering worker who identifies as neither female or male is suing Bon Appetit Management Co. for $518,000 claiming co-workers referred to the employee as a female though repeatedly being asked to stop.

Valeria Jones alleges in a lawsuit that co-workers repeatedly called Jones “miss,” “lady” and “little lady” despite explanations that Jones “was not a female or a male and that the term was unwelcome.” "


http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index...ues_f.html

This is just political correctness gone mad!

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This is awfully stupid in my opinion. Just put in whatever gender you identify as. This non-binary is just ridiculous! Get over yourselves & stop playing oppressed. There are people with real gender identity issues (men who are women, women who are men), but you SJW with your "non-binary" are just retarded.

[kılıç_mehmet]

I'm curious to know what anyone thinks of this. I have no religious objection to it, but annoys me greatly.

Don't get me wrong: I support gay rights, and believe the transgender community deserves the same rights as anyone else.

However, 56 gender options is ludicrous, and I can't see this as helpful to any cause other than getting attention. Thoughts?


http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/...tions.html

Reddit and Tumblr is invading fagbook, what else?

[Psykhronic]

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This is awfully stupid in my opinion. Just put in whatever gender you identify as. This non-binary is just ridiculous! Get over yourselves & stop playing oppressed. There are people with real gender identity issues (men who are women, women who are men), but you SJW with your "non-binary" are just retarded.

[thesummerqueen]

I'm curious to know what anyone thinks of this. I have no religious objection to it, but annoys me greatly.

Why does it annoy you? No one's asking you to pick one of them.

However, 56 gender options is ludicrous, and I can't see this as helpful to any cause other than getting attention. Thoughts?

If this is the biggest "attention-getting" factor on Facebook, then users have VASTLY curtailed all their posts and complaints. You really won't see it unless you facebook-stalk people's profiles.

[Autumnlicious]

Why does it annoy you? No one's asking you to pick one of them.

That's my beef too.

I don't see any reason why this would be anything other than ignorable.

It's people's motherfucking facebook!

If they want to call themselves a Dragon, let them.

I don't care because it doesn't interfere with me.

[thesummerqueen]

I don't see any reason why this would be anything other than ignorable.

Last time I asked this sort of question about another subject, it boiled down to it annoying the other person because it confused them and they weren't sure how to address the person confusing them. Apparently it's too much work to ask an individual how they would prefer to be referred to. After all, that tips the center of the universe away from the annoyed person - that just can't happen, you know?

[Angrboda]

What bothers me is this is just Facebook figuring out another way to make money from housing your personal information. That's why it's not fill in the blank. Marketing needs clearly defined categories, and Facebook has just given them 56 new categories to play with.

[thesummerqueen]

Would you like FB to continue to be free?

Then it needs to be able to run ads. And I, for one, would rather it show relevant ads.