I second what Blue Velvet said, it should a matter of personal choice.
What?!
Well, if you go by WORD count.......
I kid, I kid!
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I second what Blue Velvet said, it should a matter of personal choice.
Well, if you go by WORD count.......
I kid, I kid!
Well we can only go on what he has said, of course she could be fibbing but what is to stop someone fibbing on the form.
It's his.
Which is good for you, ladies.
*goes back to crying alone in front of his computer*
Noooooooo.... my eyes will dry out completely...OT
(I'm being bad... sowwie!) But if you don't like animated 'tars, you can do what I do-- use Camino and set it in preferences to only show animations once.
Back on topic: I think there's enough bling in the postmenu already, if someone needs to inform the world about their gender (without becoming a Demi-god/ess) then an appropriate 'tar, short not in location (or elsewhere in the public profile) or even signature should be more than sufficient...
Simple solution. Just color code everyones profile name (blue for boys, pink for girls). Works for babies, so why not us.
That. Explains. So. Much.
I had no idea there was only 15% identified women on MR. I guess I was hoping for more like 40%.
Keep up the great work BV, though. I always appreciate your comments in many areas. You do make MR more welcoming for women.
Makes me wonder about the average ratio between males and females on internet forums, especially those dealing with subjects considered relatively gender-neutral.
Those baby blanket colors don't work for me. If I'm looking at newborns in the hospital nursery, I have to ask somebody which ones are the blue blankets and which ones are the pink blankets, or look at name tags. I guess we'll just have to use photos of X and Y chromosomes instead.Simple solution. Just color code everyones profile name (blue for boys, pink for girls). Works for babies, so why not us.
Good thing if I ever have a baby, it'll be surrounded with more stereotypically gender-neutral colors.
Having an older sister means that my sons are pretty unconcerned about those things. They use pink cups and such simply because we're too cheap to buy new ones.
Well, that and my son enjoys a good princess dress-up party now and then. I think they're perfectly well adjusted.
Mmmm...babeez...I wants.
I liked the comic.
People should just be neutral with other people until they know them. Besides, not everyone of the opposite sex wants to have sex with you, you know...
Besides which, it'll just be another irritating way for people to be snarky. Like people who ask questions whose correct answer really requires one to know what country they live in, but put something crass instead in their location field. Then, they ask, "Where can I buy product xxx?" And then reply to someone attempting to help them, "lol I live in Luxembourg." WTF?
Oh, sorry, I'm ranting.
edit: this is an ironic thread to see on the same day the Times ran that piece on how much more girls use blogging than boys...
Good thing if I ever have a baby, it'll be surrounded with more stereotypically gender-neutral colors.
You know, originally pink was the masculine color and blue the feminine one. I'm not sure how they got switched around. The idea was pink was essentially red, a masculine color, and blue was more serene/calm/etc. and therefore feminine. The most easily seen example of this is traditional depictions of the Nativity. Mary will be wearing blue while Joseph will be wearing pink.
That's absolutely right. Other examples can be found in early football club colours pink shirts were quite common in the fledgling days of the game, up until the early part of the last century.
Wow, this is the most offensive post I have read here in a long time, and apparently innocent (or perhaps a just a joke?)
Well nobody else seemed to make a big issue out of it so it can't be that big a deal.
this is the most offensive post I have read here in a long time, and apparently innocent (or perhaps a just a joke?)
It might be a guy, but it's still a cute baby after all.
this is the most offensive post I have read here in a long time, and apparently innocent (or perhaps a just a joke?)
I think you just might be easily offended. I mean, you were the one offended by a Star Trek trailer, were you not?
Well, we are talking about a series which, after running in various forums for decades, in the nineties, introduced the first black Vulcan, whose name was suspiciously close to Tupac.
I've often found the opposite to be true. I think that most people who don't know the sex of a forum member do have a preconceived idea: that the forum member is male. Statistically, that's a good bet, but not a sure bet. If they later learn that he's male, they don't change their style of conversation. If they instead learn that she's female, they may change how they converse with her. That's a generalization, and not always the case, nor necessarily good or bad, just something I've noticed.Personally, I think not knowing someone's gender or age is a great equaliser. It makes you respond to what was said without having any preconceived ideas.
Another good reason that people should decide for themselves what personal information to give out.
