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Limited Gender declaration options
on: October 29, 2018, 12:02:00 PM
Why is there only the classic binary option male/female, and blank, in the profile?

How about all the other options as requested by the LGBTQ+  community?

How are these MTO members supposed to express their given Gender?
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #1 on: October 29, 2018, 12:34:29 PM
Which options? I am a little naive and ignorant.
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #2 on: October 29, 2018, 12:35:35 PM
You can be blank dks.


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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #3 on: October 29, 2018, 12:39:16 PM
why?
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #4 on: October 29, 2018, 12:41:50 PM
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #5 on: October 29, 2018, 12:44:09 PM
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Al : "Women!"

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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #6 on: October 29, 2018, 12:49:17 PM
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #7 on: October 29, 2018, 12:50:06 PM
What about us non non-binary trans-transgender members with binary opposed attractions? :think:
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #8 on: October 29, 2018, 12:54:18 PM
see, it is a big issue that affects many members and it should not be swept under the carpet.
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #9 on: October 29, 2018, 04:26:42 PM
Things were simpler in the old days. It didn't say "Gender", it said "Sex", and you could answer "yes please". These days you have to write a much longer "Isn't it smurfing obvious, you moron?" and then waste several minutes vociferously expressing to underpaid staff, just loud enough for management to hear, how offended you are that someone felt the need to question your identity, then casually glance around for anyone who appears to be resenting my binary identity, so I know who I need to sit next to and moan about it to for the next half hour.  :whistle:


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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #10 on: October 29, 2018, 04:39:05 PM
Jesting aside, it does annoy me that the question (in many real life scenarios) should be needed at all. In an equal society (which we're supposedly striving for), the answer is irrelevant, so why ask.
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #11 on: October 30, 2018, 05:25:30 AM
Jesting aside, it does annoy me that the question (in many real life scenarios) should be needed at all. In an equal society (which we're supposedly striving for), the answer is irrelevant, so why ask.

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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #12 on: October 30, 2018, 06:54:58 AM

As a friend Deeks I don't judge you and have always treated you the same as my normal friends  :salute:
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #13 on: October 30, 2018, 07:44:23 AM
I don't really get why a multi-tool forum has a gender declaration option at all.  :dunno:


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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #14 on: October 30, 2018, 09:40:22 AM
For statistics – and to stop drunken members from flirting with a “Gender” they are not interested in (when sober).

Normal is not defined by gender only but by many other special factors  :)
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #15 on: October 30, 2018, 10:27:26 AM
preconfigured with the forum software.

as pointed out, you are not required to specify anything.

While I would have no problem adding options, I can't see it bringing any actual benefit and may actually cause unneeded friction from some less accepting members.

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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #16 on: October 30, 2018, 10:36:02 AM
I’ve changed mine to blank, deeks. :tu:
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #17 on: October 30, 2018, 10:38:31 AM
RESPECT !
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Al : "Women!"

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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #18 on: October 30, 2018, 10:38:51 AM
Join me, everyone! :pok:
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #19 on: October 30, 2018, 11:04:18 AM
I really have no problem being a male :think: it isn't like it is an invasion of privacy and if one doesn't feel like they need to answer then fine :dunno: but seriously 2 options is the vast majority of the world and it almost seems as though dks is just trying to get something started ??? and you all lot that are backing him is only fueling him, so if you all wouldn't mind please drop this :salute:


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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #20 on: October 30, 2018, 11:15:02 AM
This is not a serious thread, by the way, before people get too wound-up
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #21 on: October 30, 2018, 11:31:35 AM
This is not a serious thread, by the way, before people get too wound-up

I know that but last time we let a thread that wasn't serious go (with a questionable topic) then we had peeps get serious and problems arised :salute:


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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #22 on: October 30, 2018, 11:46:06 AM
This is not a serious thread, by the way, before people get too wound-up

I only know about this.........issue.......thanks to youtube videos....thankfully.  :facepalm:

Although I firmly believe everybody is free to get their jollies in whatever consensual way they choose, I'm just too old for the drama surrounding this...issue  :facepalm:


In some video somebody mentioned his wife is an MD, and no matter what you identify as, the doc needs to know what plumbing you have to make a correct diagnosis......

Seems kinda obvious....



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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #23 on: October 30, 2018, 11:57:09 AM
I really have no problem being a male :think: it isn't like it is an invasion of privacy and if one doesn't feel like they need to answer then fine :dunno: but seriously 2 options is the vast majority of the world and it almost seems as though dks is just trying to get something started ??? and you all lot that are backing him is only fueling him, so if you all wouldn't mind please drop this :salute:

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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #24 on: November 15, 2018, 04:50:45 AM
My tools like being used. I might get picky about who fondles my tools, but they don't. So... gender. Meh. It's the internet. We probably aren't even here. We're probably some figment of Grant's id running amok while he sleeps.

And Deeks, I still suspect you're a space hampster sent to spy on humanity. I thought space hamsters reproduced by fission.  :D
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #25 on: November 15, 2018, 05:42:33 AM
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #26 on: November 15, 2018, 03:25:17 PM
fusion...  :)
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #27 on: November 15, 2018, 03:29:35 PM
fusion...  :)
???
So two space hamsters become one?
That doesn’t sound very viable in the long term.  :rofl:
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #28 on: November 15, 2018, 04:04:09 PM
fusion...  :)
???
So two space hamsters become one?
That doesn’t sound very viable in the long term.  :rofl:

Ah, but you see, they do it in negative time direction. So that they start out as the heat death of the universe and proceed to fuse till there is but one space hamster who is the big bang...  :D
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Re: Limited Gender declaration options
Reply #29 on: November 15, 2018, 05:04:02 PM
My tools like being used. I might get picky about who fondles my tools, but they don't. So... gender. Meh. It's the internet. We probably aren't even here. We're probably some figment of Grant's id running amok while he sleeps.

And Deeks, I still suspect you're a space hampster sent to spy on humanity. I thought space hamsters reproduced by fission.  :D

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