There's a lot wrong with this article, but: > Lets get something straight here. Gender should ALWAYS be a optional choice. This is a good take. Many more serv

There's a lot wrong with this article, but: > Lets get something straight here. Gender should ALWAYS be a optional choice. This is a good take. Many more services should make gender more optional. It's unnecessary for almost all services, it's something that is often used for _poor_ targeting – targeting based on markers in platform activity is likely to yield much better targeting, and unless you spend a lot of time thinking about how to model the answers to that question it has the potential to exclude and offend. Let's just stop asking for it!