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LogicaL Chaos
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Gender Symbols as a "Display Option"
#28395325 - 07/14/23 11:45 AM (6 months, 12 days ago) |
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Quite often, i will see women misgendered as men on the boards even thou they have the little pink "female" gender icon selected in their display perferences. Its often new members who have this issue.
For example: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/28395187#28395187
I think it would be nice if there was an option to use gender symbols instead and/or in addition to the tiny people gender-colored icons.
Something like these near a person's username: ♂️♀️
I think it would help with accidental misgendering.
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Re: Gender Symbols as a "Display Option" [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 2
#28401852 - 07/20/23 02:52 PM (6 months, 6 days ago) |
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Honestly, I wasn't aware that was an issue. But if I had to guess, I would think the problem isn't so much the clarity of the gender icons, but the fact that the site is so overwhelmingly male that people don't even really bother to look at them and just make default assumptions. I'm not sure that changing the gender icons would help with that, or even necessarily offer more clarity since it's just swapping one set of symbology (pink and blue/long and short hair) for another (astrological pictographs).
It also raises the question of what symbol to use for "trans-male", "trans-female", and "other" genders. Although there technically seem to be symbols that can be used, they don't yet appear to be commonly recognized or widely adopted.
But I'm curious to hear what other people think. I'm sure we could make it work, and it would certainly be straightforward to implement if there's a broad consensus.
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Asante
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Re: Gender Symbols as a "Display Option" [Re: Ythan]
#28401976 - 07/20/23 05:18 PM (6 months, 5 days ago) |
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catering to this is as simple as changing Title: into Title/Pronouns:
if its an understandably sensitive issue to misgendered, make your pronouns your title. If you take offense anmd didnt, why didn't you?
the feature is already there.
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CookieCrumbs
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Re: Gender Symbols as a "Display Option" [Re: Asante] 1
#28402268 - 07/20/23 09:35 PM (6 months, 5 days ago) |
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Lots of people assume I'm a dude. It's kinda just part of being on the internet and it doesn't bother me. I've seen women (cis or not) correct others fine when it does. Rarely aee anyone actually upset about this.
Unless someone is being a shitty transphobe. Which is a different issue.
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Re: Gender Symbols as a "Display Option" [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 5
#28402286 - 07/20/23 09:57 PM (6 months, 5 days ago) |
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I think it's actually probably better that people don't notice. People on here tend to be creepy towards women. The less of that the better.
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Asante
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Re: Gender Symbols as a "Display Option" [Re: CookieCrumbs] 1
#28413119 - 07/29/23 06:31 PM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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Quote:
CookieCrumbs said: Lots of people assume I'm a dude.
you always struck me as a dudette 
to the observant eye, femininity or masculinity stands out, and, there is the gender icon.
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