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Diaspora (an open source Facebook alternative) is currently in development and alpha testing. Apparently one of the developers, Sarah Mei, decided your gender shouldn't be a dropdown menu of male or female. She made it a text box where you can just put in what ever you like. Read are blog post and I am curious what you think....

Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora

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QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Nov 29, 2010 -> 11:10 AM)
Apparently the human race has evolved past just having Males and Females.

 

As I understand it, this would be the correct way to use the term gender.

 

Gender is a personal description of your sexuality while "sex" is the biological description. At least, I am pretty sure that's how the law views the terms.

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QUOTE (G&T @ Nov 30, 2010 -> 10:22 AM)
As I understand it, this would be the correct way to use the term gender.

 

Gender is a personal description of your sexuality while "sex" is the biological description. At least, I am pretty sure that's how the law views the terms.

 

I think maybe it's more psychological than your sexuality. But you are 100% right--sex is biological; gender is not necessarily the same.

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