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This assumes the presence of gender binary. This assumes a person fits into one of those identities, which is not always the case.
by rpncreator 13y ago
This assumes the presence of gender binary. This assumes a person fits into one of those identities, which is not always the case.
- codegeek 13y agoI thought about adding a 3rd option but don't want to start a controversial post/poll. EDIT: Added it on public demand.
- Mz 13y agoYou already did (start a controversy). If you can add "other", I suggest you do so. It will reduce some of the fallout.
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- publicfig 13y agoToo late!
- cllns 13y agoSeems like it's too late for that. You should just add another option and ignore the haters. (edit: thanks)
- j45 13y agoNot sure if it would be a big deal. Some things are bug deals if treated as one. Transgender has been a long existing thing, the awareness of our particular civilization might not be high.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y ago>Transgender has been a long existing thing, the awareness of our particular civilization might not be high. Now I'm curious about the fraction of "other"
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- codegeek 13y agook i added the "other" choice without trying to come up with a cute/smart description.
- ars 13y agoThe problem with other is that people are clicking it for fun. I quite doubt there are 15 other to 42 female (to 735 male).
- Suitov 13y agoBut, um, why do you assume people are clicking "other" for fun and not clicking "female" or "male" for fun? Do you have data about people's reasons for clicking? Is there some data on HN's readers' gender distribution with which you can disprove - oh wait, that's what this poll was intended to provide...
- FUlibs 13y agoFuck you. Should have stuck with your instinct and not told the lie liberals love.
- philipp-de 13y agothe last 2 polls also had only 2 options. so for comparisons sake it will be better to leave it at that, i think.
- niggler 13y agoit happens: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394621 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394621
- Dewie 13y agoThe wording hints more at a biological sex binary.
- yaddayadda 13y agoHow so? Other than http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ and specific gender/sex studies, I haven't seen studies that make a distinction between gender and sex. Of course, if you want to make the distinction about biological sex, then you have to define which of the biological criteria and categories you're using, and even then you need more than two categories (http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/marriage.html http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/marriage.html).
- Dewie 13y ago"male/female" sounds like more of a biological taxonomy than "man/woman", to me.
- Mz 13y agoHowever, man/woman suggests biological/legal adult. Previous polls have established that there are legal minors using the site as well.
- Dewie 13y agoThis is getting ridicoulus
- Mz 13y agoI honestly do not see why my observation should be viewed as any more ridiculous than yours.
- Dewie 13y agoWhen someone asks if you are male or female, 99% will interpret it as "do you have a penis or a vagina?", not "do you identify as a man or a woman?", nor any other You seem to suggest that my interpretation is arbitrary, while I think it is the most colloquial. Do you honestly think that a 15 year old girl/boy would see this thread and think "well I am neither of those"? Or are you just deconstructing a very straightforward question by its edge cases to prove some kind of point that I'm missing?
- FUlibs 13y ago"Identities"? Go fuck yourself. You don't "identify as" male or female. You ARE male or female, because you have a cock or a vag. Simple as that. Why do liberals like shit like this?
- dwb 13y agoOk, obviously a troll, but just leaving this here in case someone sincerely holds this opinion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
- jcromartie 13y agoI wish it were that simple. It would save a lot of people a lot of misery. Unfortunately we organisms are unimaginably complex, and it turns out that, although the vast majority of the time it comes down male/female, things do land on a spectrum in terms of biological sex. (heterosexual male upper-middle class white American here...)
- yaddayadda 13y agoSo a combat veteran born with a penis, but who lost it in combat is no longer male, simply because he no longer has a cock?