Google can do better here but .... gees I hate this way of trying to frame everything in the worst possible way. Google had the option to filler out people who

Google can do better here but .... gees I hate this way of trying to frame everything in the worst possible way. Google had the option to filler out people who it didn't have data on. That's it. Then the person who wrote the article spins it as negative as possible . Google has a very large number of nonbinary employees. Bringing up the issue I'm sure some work will work into fixing it, adding more options, but it didn't need to be so confrontational. I'm also sure it's not as trivial to fix as it sounds. Let's say you want to market tampons. It's not unreasonable to only want to target "people who's body a tampon was designed for" (regardless of if there is some small segment of people what want to use tampons for other purposes). What should the filter for "people who's body a tampon was designed for" be? The shortcut for a century or so as been "female" in the "I have vagina" category, not the "I'm attracted to men" category. Even if it's not body related, if your market research tells you that 98% of your market is women (say lipstick), it's not unreasonable to not want to waste money marking to everyone for that last 2% and as a result, wasting the time of the large male percentage of the population that has no interest in lipstick. There's nothing nefarious here. Tangentially. This type of exclude/include issue comes up all over. On OkCupid for example, I can choose to match "atheists" but I can't not choose to match non-Christians. In other words I can select people in Set A but I can not select people Not in Set B. The problem is, at least where I live, the majority of people do not select a religion so if I check "Atheists" + "Agnostic" it filters out literally 99% of everyone. Where as, what I want to be able to do is filter out people who specifically choose certain religions since those people signaled they weren't a match for me. Instead my only option is to check nothing and then have to manually go through the profiles and scroll down to see if they marked some religion. Since ~30-50% do that's a huge waste of time for me. Similarly there are certain question answers I want to filter out. They might not have chosen a religion but they might have answered the question "How important is religion/God in your life?" as either "Extremely Important" or "Somewhat Important" which is basically tells me we aren't compatible. But, there's no way to filter out, only filter in, so if I add the filter in criteria then everyone who didn't answer the question is gone. This is even more tedious to check than the previous since religion is surfaced on the main profile but these answers you have to dig through.