Ermarian wrote:I just went on Facebook and selecting the custom option now does create a text field.
Then all that is left now is to address is the binary option of being interested in women, men, or both.
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by Luveria » Fri Feb 14, 2014 2:11 am
Ermarian wrote:I just went on Facebook and selecting the custom option now does create a text field.
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by Lithosano » Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:46 am
Orennana wrote:I really don't know which of the options to pick... IMO, ignoring the differences between gender and biological sex for the time being, gender is a scale, ranging from exclusively one gender at 0% (I'm going to use female for this example) to exclusively the other at 100% (male for this example). Obviously there are a variety of different words for each point on the scale depending on circumstances (eg 0% could be cis female, trans female, cis woman etc), but I'm not sure there's a word for where I fit in (using the current example, I'm around 85%, which pretty much fits my biological status as a man, but I'm not exclusively male so I don't feel 100% comfortable identifying as cis) so which word do I choose? Or do I just leave it as Man?
by Luveria » Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:55 am
Lithosano wrote:Orennana wrote:I really don't know which of the options to pick... IMO, ignoring the differences between gender and biological sex for the time being, gender is a scale, ranging from exclusively one gender at 0% (I'm going to use female for this example) to exclusively the other at 100% (male for this example). Obviously there are a variety of different words for each point on the scale depending on circumstances (eg 0% could be cis female, trans female, cis woman etc), but I'm not sure there's a word for where I fit in (using the current example, I'm around 85%, which pretty much fits my biological status as a man, but I'm not exclusively male so I don't feel 100% comfortable identifying as cis) so which word do I choose? Or do I just leave it as Man?
You know, I used to think of gender as a binary scale as well, but I am increasingly failing to see how that is true. It seems paradoxically essentialist, especially given that gender is almost entirely socially created. I mean, "masculine" and "feminine" change and some cultures recognize as many as five genders. Gender is probably a multi-axis scale, if anything,
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by Ifreann » Fri Feb 14, 2014 7:27 am
Luveria wrote:Ifreann wrote:So I've heard, and more than a few people in this thread have mentioned it not being available to them.
I interpret that as an indication Facebook is using the US as a testing grounds for the new changes they are rolling out. My guess is that if it goes smoothly in the US, it will be extended.
by Ifreann » Fri Feb 14, 2014 7:29 am
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by Luveria » Fri Feb 14, 2014 7:36 am
Farnhamia wrote:Luveria wrote:
I did long ago when I vowed to never make a Facebook account.
I had one for a while. It was a full-time job keeping up with people I didn't like in high school and wasn't really interested in now, not to mention their friends and children and people who might have met them once.
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