And I, as a front end developer, have to put all of those on this drop down list.
Gender
⚫ Female
⚫ Male
🔘 Gliese 436 b
But on a more serious note, if you actually need to know the user’s gender, a perfectly good set of options could be eg.
- female
- male
- other
- would rather not say
Gender:
- Male
- Female
- Other
- None
- False
- Undefined
- Null
- Nil
- [Object object]
- 🚹 (The gender formerly known as male.)
- November
- 98°
- Yes, please
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In all seriousness though, this is what I did for my contact app (it’s a combobox, so you can type whatever you want in there or pick from the dropdown):
Tbh gender setting should be like a color picker for rbg
This does limit the amount of genders to 1,073,741,824 if using 30bit rbg, but I’m willing to accept that compromise until someone lists more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg only made it to 87, I don’t think you need to go up to 30 bits for that.
What about a free text field or just don’t ask people about their gender?
Sometimes you have to ask for it. E.g. I work in the life insurance business and we need to know the gender for policy calculation.
Ok, but isn’t that just to make vague generalizations about someone based on their gender?
I think a lot of this joke refers to the Roman god Mars, and the Roman Goddess Venus, more than it does the planetary bodies. Roman and Greek mythology both have a lot of gender fuckery, so I think it’s pretty appropriate.
That bing AI thing says there’s somewhere around 65 to 70 named Roman deities, so I’m gonna make a call and say that there are probably 69 genders.
The spectrum is now divided in to precisely 69 individual genders. With men at one end and women at the other.
Assuming gender follows a normal distribution, most people are binary, falling only slightly one way or the other
Only one known person has encountered all of them.
Your mom.
Sex encounters.
Because she is promiscuous.
Yo mama stepped off the curb and got stuck. She’s also massive and warps space time causing light to bend around dat azz.
Boys are from Mars,
Girls are from Venus,
You’ve got a yumyum,
I’ve got a penis.
I wonder if we could make some projections here, because based on the fact that women are from Venus and men from mars, it appears that we are gaining letters as the planet gets closer to the sun. As there is one planet (earth) between Venus and mars, we could reasonably extrapolate that the gender from earth should be called ‘omen’ - that’s simple logic. The next question is what letter to we add to find out which gender is from mercury?
