Ignoring Facebook.
Someone wrote…
Every single time I log into Facebook it reminds me that my profile must be confusing because I haven’t picked my gender. And I love ignoring it every single time. It makes me feel so powerful.
What’s your experience?
Posted by julian on September 1st, 2009 at 08:00 am
Category: your voice 12 comments »
September 1st, 2009 at 8:22 am |
I do this too. I wish more people would do it, so maybe Facebook would learn to leave us alone or give us other options.
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September 1st, 2009 at 9:10 am |
I wish I had known they were going to do this back when I made my profile. I’m confident in the choice I’ve put in, but I would’ve left it blank in protest of them forcing or nagging people to pick a gender.
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September 1st, 2009 at 10:31 am |
AMEN.
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September 1st, 2009 at 10:51 am |
I do this too!
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September 1st, 2009 at 11:18 am |
I’ve refused to pick a gender for the longest time on facebook, they don’t even ask me to pick anymore. Haha.
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September 1st, 2009 at 1:29 pm |
*smiles* cheers!
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September 1st, 2009 at 2:37 pm |
i quietly took mine down a few weeks ago.
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September 1st, 2009 at 5:21 pm |
I love being plural!
not really, but compared to the other options…
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September 2nd, 2009 at 10:17 am |
http://apps.facebook.com/sexgendero/
Choose from many options, both binary and non-binary, for sex, transition status, gender identity, gender presentation, orientation, interested in, title, and pronoun, or fill in your own
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September 2nd, 2009 at 8:33 pm |
While I willingly identify as the gender I was born with, I don’t think I should be forced to announce it in any forum. I took down my gender on Facebook a while ago and it got mad at me. I also noticed that a lot of the offensive ads disappeared too, which was an unexpected bonus.
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September 11th, 2009 at 1:25 am |
I also realized it’s possible to take down the gender in FB, and it feels good not having to be referred to with some singular third person pronoun. Though, I rarely think about it anymore, because English is not my first language and I don’t pay hardly any attention to it. I don’t think other Finnish speaking do it either. I don’t know what my English speaking friends think about it, but I hope I wake some thinking in them :)
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September 11th, 2009 at 9:23 pm |
I took down my gender as soon as my partner told me that it was possible. It’s pretty cool. I didn’t like having to put “female” before.
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