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If you can't find something on this list to describe yourself on Facebook, you are probably out of luck.

You don't have to be just male or female on Facebook anymore. The social media giant has added a customizable option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender as well as three preferred pronoun choices: him, her or them.
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Meh. If you're offering so many choices, why not just let them enter whatever manually at that point?
 
NKDietrich said:
Meh. If you're offering so many choices, why not just let them enter whatever manually at that point?
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I just checked out the feature, it looks like you can select from Select Gender (aka decline to state), Male, Female, or Custom; If you pick custom, you have a textbox, and you can set visibility of the gender; and then you pick pronouns (Male, Female, or Neutral (looks like third person plural)). Your pronouns are public, and not really customizable.
 
I have always been offended by the binary gender checkbox, particularly when it is a required field.

At the bare minimum there should be a 2D space with "identifies as" on one axis and "attracted to" on the other.
 
NKDietrich said:
Meh. If you're offering so many choices, why not just let them enter whatever manually at that point?
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Not having options means a large portion of people may by default do silliness in the custom field.

Facebook makes a lot of money from datamining, gender would be somewhat less effective as a datasource then.
 
Weenis said:
Not having options means a large portion of people may by default do silliness in the custom field.

Facebook makes a lot of money from datamining, gender would be somewhat less effective as a datasource then.
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Because 50 different "gender" choices totally validates it as a data source....I guess they are teaching different things in school these days..because last I checked we sure as hell didn't have 50 different genders. If I ever become single again, I'm staying single. Clearly there is too much ambiguity now.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Because 50 different "gender" choices totally validates it as a data source....I guess they are teaching different things in school these days..because last I checked we sure as hell didn't have 50 different genders. If I ever become single again, I'm staying single. Clearly there is too much ambiguity now.
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Gender = Psychological

Sex = Physical

We as a species only have 3 sex's but a vast amount of genders.
 
Spazturtle said:
Gender = Psychological

Sex = Physical

We as a species only have 3 sex's but a vast amount of genders.
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Wrong, we only have 2 sexes.

I understand that people have this strange issue with their gender identity, but it's getting out of control. To the point where men are women, and women are men, and some like to be called something entirely different.

Until we have nanobots that can alter your gender completely, you are what I call you. It'll be he, she, or it. Not for you sake, but because the English language doesn't have a pronoun for whatever gender you think you are.
 
Spazturtle said:
Gender = Psychological
Sex = Physical
We as a species only have 3 sex's but a vast amount of genders.
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As much as you'd like to, randomly making up a gender isn't something you can just "do". By your definition I can say "I'm a hermaphra-butterfly-ite" and be completely correct, and wherein the entire argument that these "alternative" genders have wrong. I don't care what you identify yourself as. As a society, we cannot function having to make incredibly specific concessions to each unique snowflake out there. It ends in absolutely no progress in the important measures of humanity. If someone is so offended by me calling them "she" or "miss, then they clearly don't have gender identity issues, more like a mental disorder issue.
 
jojo69 said:
I have always been offended by the binary gender checkbox, particularly when it is a required field.

At the bare minimum there should be a 2D space with "identifies as" on one axis and "attracted to" on the other.
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Exactly, because its not like we have definitions for male or female such as the presence or lack of a Y-chromosome.

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I'm a WOMAN!
 
Spazturtle said:
Gender = Psychological

Sex = Physical

We as a species only have 3 sex's but a vast amount of genders.
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No, we have two sexes, and its biology. Gender identity is a psychological problem, most certainly, but if someone thinks they are a dolphin it doesn't make them a dolphin, it makes them a man or woman with a mental problem.
 
NKDietrich said:
Meh. If you're offering so many choices, why not just let them enter whatever manually at that point?
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Because then they cannot easily bin everyone for advertising and data mining purposes.
 
Ashbringer said:
Wrong, we only have 2 sexes.
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So all those intersex people in the world... yeah screw them. Guess you missed that day in biology class, eh? Don't worry your head about it, since many countries in Europe and abroad are moving to a three option birth certificate it won't be long before it becomes standard in the US as well.

Then we can look back and have a good laugh about it. These kind of statements always remind me of, "back in my day..." we only had two sexes and by golly that was good enough for us because reasons.

Do you hang an onion on your belt to :)
 
The amount of horrible things I read in these forums is finally getting to me. If it doesn't affect you, why do you care if a few percent of people are helped? Also did anyone take a basic biology course? There are more than 2 physical sexes in humans, to name a few: XX, XY, XXY, XYY. Some people are even born with both sex organs or lack there of. Why do they even need to choose? Let people be for fucks sake.
 
Genetically we we have two gender or sexes. XX and XY. Everything else something going wrong with the fetus in development. Transgender do NOT have XXY or something else.

Gender may mean gender identity now but that is because of political correctness not science. That said if they want to identify themselves as something else, I can not see how that is bad thing so that those of us who would rather avoid flirting with them have a simple means of avoiding them that they themselves set. Though generally they had the same issues with skull structure and facial features that DS victims have so if you know what to look for, you know what to avoid.
 
auspexd said:
So all those intersex people in the world... yeah screw them. Guess you missed that day in biology class, eh?
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Its really sad that you actually think you're actually so confident to boast about your ignorance. The difference between us is that I actually did pay attention in class, and recognize that there are only two genders, distinguished as I already explained to you, by the presence or lack of a Y-chromosome. Birth defects with ambiguous genitalia do not change your gender anymore than someone with a birth defect causing them to grow stubs for arms makes them some new non-human species.... they are just people with birth defects. :rolleyes:

And before you really start to herp the derp and say but, but, but the XXY chromosome freaks, they are neither gender. BZZZT! Wrong. Y-chromosome means male. An additional X chromosome to the XY pair does not suddenly make you a woman. It makes you a man with genetic and hormonal issues... again a simple defect.

I should write a book about this nonsense... "What liberals ACTUALLY believe"
 
jojo69 said:
alas

as much as this forum pretends to be "for" liberty

it just ain't so
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Yes, because my liberty is infringed if people refuse to accept that I know in my heart and in the deepest depths of my soul that I am a mermaid.

It is ignorant, old fashioned, and downright prejudice of you to not respect my choice to identify as a mermaid and swim with the fishes.

Why are you so ichthyophobic anyway? You should be applauding me for my bravery in coming out, and soon I hope to have enough money for my flipper surgery.
 
There are beta males and then there are alpha males, and there are wannabe alphas. There's lots of wannabe's in the world.
 
Ducman69 said:
Yes, because my liberty is infringed if people refuse to accept that I know in my heart and in the deepest depths of my soul that I am a mermaid.

It is ignorant, old fashioned, and downright prejudice of you to not respect my choice to identify as a mermaid and swim with the fishes.

Why are you so ichthyophobic anyway? You should be applauding me for my bravery in coming out, and soon I hope to have enough money for my flipper surgery.
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You need fangs too, yup, I saw it in Pirates of the Caribbean. Can't be a mermaid without them.
 
We need some kind of apocalyptic reset to weed out these screw-ups. Western Society's enthrallment with political correctness—aided and abetted by the entitled welfare mindset—has allowed the worst of us to thrive. That in itself is leading to an apocalyptic collapse of Western Civilization.
 
"Gender" as we see it now is a completely man-made concept that really only means something to other people. If you truly believe in "not caring about what other people do", you'd damn the concept.

But what really bothers me is that when you try to tell people this or even talk about the biology behind it all, they retract into themselves every single time and you can't really do anything about it. It's almost like some kind of personal fantasy, like they've spent their entire lives obsessing over it being true that they literally cannot accept another reality... really scary. Related, I'm curious as to how many of these described people are simply white knights... there's that theory that the actual group cares far less than the army of white knights there always seems to be.
 
Let me know when you can pick transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania!
 
Fortunately, the truth is what it is and independent of human redefinition.
 
It's a 100% pointless thing to worry about because, Facebook users are a lot like Star Wars fans. Both populations are getting really old now. Yeah, Star Wars fans are totally going to disappear a lot sooner because most of them are in their like 50s and 60s whereas Facebook is full of 30-somethings to 40-somethings, but those generations are pretty much on their way out and won't be doing anything super important with respect to making decisions that matter in another like ten years or so. Let the weird Facebook people stay weird in their weirdness box and the rest of us can continue to totally not get worried about all this "must categorize everything" mindset that the fading generations that came before us have to adhere to because that's how they were raised by even more ancient people that were their parents.
 
Did they really need fifty different terms?
All you need is three...:
  • Male
  • Female
  • Trap
:p

JosiahBradley said:
Also did anyone take a basic biology course? There are more than 2 physical sexes in humans, to name a few: XX, XY, XXY, XYY.
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Citation needed.
 
Ashbringer said:
Wrong, we only have 2 sexes.
I understand that people have this strange issue with their gender identity, but it's getting out of control. To the point where men are women, and women are men, and some like to be called something entirely different.
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Thou speakest the truth.

It seems a quote from Romans is appropriate here.
Romans 1:24-27 (ESV)

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
 
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