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by Ronja » Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:58 pm
I don't BELIEVE this guy!
Diaspora Alpha, the open-source "we are not Facebook" new social network gives the users a text field labeled "gender" instead of radio buttons or drop-down menus with predefined choices. The guy who designed this feature wrote a thoughtful blog post about why this is a Good Thing.
http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2010/11/26/disalienation/
Enter "affamato", who upon joining gets very, very disappointed about this, so he suggests a
twomulti-choice "sex" label, because it is more "objective"
http://getsatisfaction.com/diaspora/top ... not_gender
And when nobody likes his idea much, he feels compelled to even BLOG about it
http://colorofblah.blogspot.com/2010/12 ... ender.html
Edit: OK, he did "allow" more than two choices...
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by Animavore » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:04 pm
Why does he care so much?
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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by Ronja » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:09 pm
Jynx wrote:Why does he care so much?
Your guess is as good as mine...
"The internet is made of people. People matter. This includes you. Stop trying to sell everything about yourself to everyone. Don’t just hammer away and repeat and talk at people—talk TO people. It’s organic. Make stuff for the internet that matters to you, even if it seems stupid. Do it because it’s good and feels important. Put up more cat pictures. Make more songs. Show your doodles. Give things away and take things that are free." -
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by Feck » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:15 pm
What a stupid thing to get upset about I have no problem with M or F boxes ,but some people find it limiting A text box you put your own words in seems a great idea ,
Why would anyone object ?
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by Ronja » Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:47 pm
OK, I'm trying out how I feel with "androgynous bi-woman". First realization: I am actually very much unused to being ABLE to be honest about my gender identity (that the technology allows it and the platform/community welcomes it). I think I will come to like a lot being free from oversimplified labels.
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by Mallardz » Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:52 pm
Wait could I be a E-Male?
Or am I misunderstanding?
Ratz it's more addictive than facebook and more fun than crack!
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by Ronja » Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:00 pm
Mallardz wrote:Wait could I be a E-Male?
Or am I misunderstanding?
You can be anything that you can type (until some character set or string length limit, I suppose).
One young woman has "Ada Lovelace" as her gender. Cool!
Double-take: why would you want to be an epsilon?
(Brave New World did come into my mind fast, despite the obvious joke) But hey, if it works for you...
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by Trolldor » Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:20 pm
So I could put 'applecart' as my gender?
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by Ronja » Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:29 pm
Trolldor wrote:So I could put 'applecart' as my gender?
Of course. Re-read if needed:
anything you can type. "The internet is made of people. People matter. This includes you. Stop trying to sell everything about yourself to everyone. Don’t just hammer away and repeat and talk at people—talk TO people. It’s organic. Make stuff for the internet that matters to you, even if it seems stupid. Do it because it’s good and feels important. Put up more cat pictures. Make more songs. Show your doodles. Give things away and take things that are free." -
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by Trolldor » Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:30 pm
I won't ever use it, of course, but still, fairly lol.
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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