Male, female, neither, both, etc. in profile

Dr. Horrible · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:56 pm

Is there some way we can get an option for which sex you are in your profile? I haven't been around long enough to know these things about people and I hate getting it wrong.

Apart from that, everything's been great today. Thanks for all the hard work! /suckingup

jojo · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:05 pm

I don't think it's necesserily as easy as male/female/other/neither, I also don't think it's really necessary to know what gender someone is whilst interacting on the Internet. If you feel you're interacting with someone on a level where you feel you need / want to know maybe you could ask? I don't think that would offend anyone.

Fee · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:06 pm

Yeah, plus I imagine most of us wouldn't fill that part out. I don't usually when a site asks.

Dr. Horrible · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:22 pm

Well, to explain: I wanted to tell someone "You are one clever man" and then I realised I didn't know if it was a man or a woman, so I didn't post it. I'm trying to post more, but I'm an insecure fork and I can't make an error like calling a man a woman and not have to worry about it.

I agree it doesn't matter either way - it's not like it would change my sense of liking for someone, I just hate making mistakes.

jojo · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:27 pm

I understand where you're coming from, maybe in that situation you could find a non gender specific way to say someone's smart like 'you're one smart cookie' or 'damn you're smart'

Fee · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:29 pm

Say something like "You are a clever one"

I don't think anyone gets offended by those mistakes, and I think everyone makes them. I automatically assume everyone here is an owl until proven otherwise.

Dr. Horrible · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:35 pm

Fee wrote:

Say something like "You are a clever one"

I don't think anyone gets offended by those mistakes, and I think everyone makes them. I automatically assume everyone here is an owl until proven otherwise.

"You're a clever owl" would work. You are a genius. I apologise for my stupid, stupid question. ;)

Rach*n · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 7:56 pm

It's not dumb, I have the same fear. Owl is very clever.

littlebear · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:02 pm

i assume everyone is a bear or a kitten.

monkeytoes · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:18 pm

I'm going to start addressing everyone as kitten. "You make a good point, kitten, but..."

hoveringdog™ · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:58 pm

I prefer to address people as "mammal."

FootFace · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:54 am

hoveringdog wrote:

I prefer to address people as "mammal."

Mammal, you are a clever owl.

thisheregiraffe · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:47 am

Dr. Horrible wrote:

Well, to explain: I wanted to tell someone "You are one clever man" and then I realised I didn't know if it was a man or a woman, so I didn't post it. I'm trying to post more, but I'm an insecure fork and I can't make an error like calling a man a woman and not have to worry about it.

I agree it doesn't matter either way - it's not like it would change my sense of liking for someone, I just hate making mistakes.

Honestly, if someone complimented me and called me the wrong gender I would find it hilarious.

eight · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:17 pm **Posts:** 498

littlebear wrote:

i assume everyone is a bear or a kitten.

I can deal with that! With either one.

fupapack · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:59 pm

take mariah carey's lead and just call everyone "my hearts"

Mars · **Posted:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:44 am

I would actually like this kind of option to be avaliable. Obviously no one would have to pick, there could be a leave it blank option for sure. But as one of those rare male types on this board it would be nice if at some point people would stop using 'she' as the default pronoun for me.

Thessaly · **Posted:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:51 pm

Everyone is now comrade to me. Comrade vegan.

vegimator · **Posted:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:54 pm

FootFace wrote:

hoveringdog wrote:

I prefer to address people as "mammal."

Mammal, you are a clever owl.

hehe

mollyjade · **Posted:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:47 pm

Mars wrote:

I would actually like this kind of option to be available. Obviously no one would have to pick, there could be a leave it blank option for sure. But as one of those rare male types on this board it would be nice if at some point people would stop using 'she' as the default pronoun for me.

So that's what it's like to loose a bit of privilege.

j-dub · **Posted:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:58 pm

mollyjade wrote:

Mars wrote:

I would actually like this kind of option to be available. Obviously no one would have to pick, there could be a leave it blank option for sure. But as one of those rare male types on this board it would be nice if at some point people would stop using 'she' as the default pronoun for me.

So that's what it's like to loose a bit of privilege.

<3

pandacookie · **Posted:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:17 pm

I just use girrrrrrl to refer to everyone. Or y'all. Or Vegan Boardaneirs.

Rhizopus Oligosporus · **Joined:** Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:39 pm **Posts:** 4582

Thessaly wrote:

Everyone is now comrade to me. Comrade vegan.

In Communist Russia carrots eat vegans comrade owl.

Phoenix · **Posted:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:16 am

Everyone could pick one word (gender-specific or not) and then just call everybody that. Then we could come back here and talk about the reactions everyone got. I could just call everyone "sister" and see who will explode first.

frozenveggies · **Posted:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:39 am

"Comrade mammal, you are one clever sisterbro-owl grrrrrrlboooooiiiiiii or otheerrrrrrrr kittenbear."

This is confusing. Owls aren't mammals.

Thessaly · **Posted:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:21 am

Comrade Owl, I hear you not a mammal!?

Can we please have a space on the profiles where we can indicate if we are mammals or not?

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