Facebook gender options

urabell

http://readwrite.com/2014/02/13/facebook-provides-50-new-gender-identity-options#awesm=~ovTMygrh41CURw

Facebook had just introduced 56 gender options to appease the extremely vocal tumblr lobby, gender is binary even if it means you can't be a special little snowflake. And for the record I have nothing against transgender people, surely a MTF is now just a female and FTM is now just a male, end of story.

And why couldn't they do 57 and add 'alpha male?' I'm offended I have to identify as being the same as an average Joe.

uch

Just say \no !

Sir Arthur Daley

I feel your pain OP

shruikan2553

I dont even know what most of those mean and there looks to be a lot of repetition.

urabell

Two-spirit?

A good number of the options aren't far off mental illness

The Backwards Man

Where's big culchie gulpin?

Sir Arthur Daley

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Where's big culchie gulpin?

Dont think Mark Zuckerberg was too concerned about people in Donegal?

Yamanoto

Will Daniel have his own personal option?

Cos for the life of me, I can't figure out what's goin' on there at all.....so I can't.

dr strangelove

Hang on - where's "Atari Sexuar"?

Bloody sexual facsists.

Sir Arthur Daley

Yamanoto wrote: »

Will Daniel have his own personal option?

Cos for the life of me, I can't figure out what's goin' on there at all.....so I can't.

Who is Daniel?

hfallada

You have to question why Facebook wants your gender other than to probably sell your info to advertisers. Your name and picture makes your gender pretty clear. I can't say I have questioned what gender a John smith was.

rustedtrumpet

Wheres the absolutely cabbaged option?

The King of Moo

"Personally, I consider myself to belong to one of the two most common gender identities. Because this is all I know, anyone who identifies in another way is wrong, and possibly mentally ill. I'll never understand why people have different perspectives to mine, and even though how they identify themselves doesn't affect my life in the slightest, it's normal for me to be annoyed by them!"

Christ, some of you will just get mad about anyone being different from you, won't you? How boring must life be, seeing only such limited options.

Why not just live and let live?

JerCotter7

The King of Moo wrote: »

"Personally, I consider myself to belong to one of the two most common gender identities. Because this is all I know, anyone who identifies in another way is wrong, and possibly mentally ill. I'll never understand why people have different perspectives to mine, and even though how they identify themselves doesn't affect my life in the slightest, it's normal for me to be annoyed by them!"

Christ, some of you will just get mad about anyone being different from you, won't you? How boring must life be, seeing only such limited options.

Why not just live and let live?

It's a gender.. What's so hard about just saying you are male or female. It's so pointless having the rest of them. If you have a penis you're male. If you have a vagina you are female. Then just tick other for mutilated.

sawdoubters

they left out bestiality

shruikan2553

The King of Moo wrote: »

"Personally, I consider myself to belong to one of the two most common gender identities. Because this is all I know, anyone who identifies in another way is wrong, and possibly mentally ill. I'll never understand why people have different perspectives to mine, and even though how they identify themselves doesn't affect my life in the slightest, it's normal for me to be annoyed by them!"

Christ, some of you will just get mad about anyone being different from you, won't you? How boring must life be, seeing only such limited options.

Why not just live and let live?

Im all for live and let live but do we need 56 gender types? I looked up cis on the list. Its pretty much born male and feel male (or female) which as a term fair enough but I dont see how male/female doesnt cover that in terms of defining gender.

Sir Arthur Daley

Its either one or the other.

Boombastic

56? Well, holy god

urabell

The King of Moo wrote: »

"Personally, I consider myself to belong to one of the two most common gender identities. Because this is all I know, anyone who identifies in another way is wrong, and possibly mentally ill. I'll never understand why people have different perspectives to mine, and even though how they identify themselves doesn't affect my life in the slightest, it's normal for me to be annoyed by them!"

Christ, some of you will just get mad about anyone being different from you, won't you? How boring must life be, seeing only such limited options.

Why not just live and let live?

Why is it never the captain of the rugby team who decides he's a pangender otherkin or the local beauty queen who decides she's a gender-fluid two-spirit?

It's always the attention seeking ones with the nation-state sized chips on their shoulders, they kick up a stink about equality and sully legitimate claims from actual unconventional gender identities like transgender people.

It may seem like I'm pandering to transgenders but In my view if you're willing to get the chop because you feel you where born in the wrong body then that's enough to legitimise you're claim.

Sir Arthur Daley

Boombastic wrote: »

56? Well, holy god

You would say something if it were sex positions.

Boombastic

WikiHow wrote: »

You would say something if it were sex positions.

If it was sex positions my response would have been


56? Amateur's

Sir Arthur Daley

Boombastic wrote: »

If it was sex positions my response would have been


56? Amateur's

I am happy with the 2.

jank

Are they serious? 56?

shruikan2553

shruikan2553 wrote: »

I dont even know what most of those mean and there looks to be a lot of repetition.

You're so insensitive.

Frank Lee Midere

The King of Moo wrote: »

"Personally, I consider myself to belong to one of the two most common gender identities. Because this is all I know, anyone who identifies in another way is wrong, and possibly mentally ill. I'll never understand why people have different perspectives to mine, and even though how they identify themselves doesn't affect my life in the slightest, it's normal for me to be annoyed by them!"

Christ, some of you will just get mad about anyone being different from you, won't you? How boring must life be, seeing only such limited options.

Why not just live and let live?

Because anti scientific **** about "gender as a construct" is about as scientific as astrology and or creationism and is, unlike these two, taught in universities.

Irish Guitarist

And yet there's no Million Dollar Man or Wonder Woman.

Irish Guitarist

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

And yet there's no Million Dollar Man or Wonder Woman.

Sure they're all wonder women.

Tombi!

Eh, I understand a good few of them but some seem to be just copies of other ones.
All in all, it's a bit too much but I can understand the need for some of the options.

MadsL

urabell wrote: »

Two-spirit?

Some Native American tribes have respected and even revered those with male-female characteristics for centuries.

Menas

Classic example of PC gone nuts.

Annasopra

WikiHow wrote: »

Its either one or the other.

No not necessarily. If you have an intersex condition then it's not. If you define as non binary or as genderqueer then it's not.

Stavros Murphy

MadsL wrote: »

Some Native American tribes have respected and even revered those with male-female characteristics for centuries.

Others used to cut off peoples scalps and use them as loofahs.

I know all the kids around here had a field day changing their genders anyway - most opted for "Transexual" thinking it only hilarious. One of mine opted for bisexual because he thought it meant he would get twice as many girls. We didn't shatter his illusions yet.

MadsL

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Others used to cut off peoples scalps and use them as loofahs.

I know all the kids around here had a field day changing their genders anyway - most opted for "Transexual" thinking it only hilarious. One of mine opted for bisexual because he thought it meant he would get twice as many girls. We didn't shatter his illusions yet.

You stalk the kids facebook round your way :eek:

Sunnyisland

Where's the confused option ?

lau1247

Genditity crisis (woohoo new word) gone mad

I like how they have others which seems like there is option to expand in the future

IamtheWalrus

urabell wrote: »

gender is binary even if it means you can't be a special little snowflake. And for the record I have nothing against transgender people, surely a MTF is now just a female and FTM is now just a male, end of story.

Misinformed.

Michael D Not Higgins

realies wrote: »

Where's the confused option ?

The 'Gender questioning' option?


I understand both sides here. It is a bit much but in the end, why do you care? How does it affect you? It's not like they put 56 differently labeled toilets into a building funded with your taxes. It's a drop down list on Facebook.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i am massively offended and dissapointed they haven't listed otherkin

will we ever find acceptance

Oranage2

They should make it less socially constructed and more scientifically based, have you XX or XY.

Stavros Murphy

MadsL wrote: »

You stalk the kids facebook round your way :eek:

No, about twenty of them came barging into the sitting room cracking their holes laughing at the new options. I'm not a facebooker. Can't stand it, Kimosabe.

ThunbergsAreGo

Merman!

CruelCoin

Jesus ****ing christ

Teyla Emmagan

I can see how some of these are valid, and long overdue. But 56?! Would it really make such a difference to be able to pick 'MTF' instead of 'Male to female'? I have never heard this 'cis' thing before, anyone know what that's all about?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

cis is normal, non trans

apparently we needed a word too, in case we felt left out

matrim

What's the difference between Male and Man, as in cis male, cis man?

YellowFeather

I'm all for equality, and I'm all for piss takes. And this is a pure piss take about equality. Fair play to Facebook for having a sense of humour.

Gavin.

Gotta appease the freaks.


Mod: User banned

Rasheed

I've lead a very closeted life, I know very few of those terms.

krudler

And not one option for either Autobot or Decepticon, outraged.

Uriel.

And the weakening of the human race continues. We're, without a doubt, setting ourselves up for the destruction of our species, there's no doubt it. Within 2 centuries I fully expect us to be conquered by some intergalactic race who realise that there are only three genders... Man, woman and llama.

Clandestine

I'm all for equality and all but.. er... isn't this a bit much? I mean 56 options?

I guess the tumblr snowflakes got through to them