• TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
    34·
    14 days ago

    Sometimes I wonder what the gender field is even for anymore. In this case, it’s clearly there just so you can select that option.

    As an aside, a website I used to use decades ago had a relatively harmless vulnerability in its “sex” field in the profile editor, allowing you to submit any value you want, and the website would render what you submitted. The field was also specifically called “sex”, not “gender”. You can imagine what values people put there.

    • ursakhiin@beehaw.org
      8·
      13 days ago

      Shoulda just set it at 2.

      • Ice cream lover
      • Godless heathen
  • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    18·
    14 days ago

    Seriously though, there’s no need for this on most sites, forms etc. We wish they’d just do away with such things altogether.

    • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      11·
      13 days ago

      It’s only there because their ads want it and companies they sell your data to want it so they know what forced preferences society has told you to have and they can target you with those.

      • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        Lol, they cannot get my preferences from my sex, gender or any meaningless pieces of information.

        • xthexder@l.sw0.com
          6·
          13 days ago

          All they care about is the statistics of which groups are going to be more likely to buy their product. They’re going to sell a lot more facial hair products advertising to people identify as male than if they spent the same amount of money to advertise to anyone with a less targeted ad.

        • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          2·
          13 days ago

          Not your preferences personally, but the preferences they think you have based on those categories because there are a lot of preferences that society says people of those genders are supposed to prefer. It’s used in almost all advertising categorization because the majority of people give in to conforming to those preferences in order to fit in. Most men don’t wear lacy pink and purple or they get called sissies or whatever, so they don’t advertise lacy lingerie to people categorized as men for example. Otherwise they’re wasting their ads. But LGBTQ+ people aren’t really considered in these things because most ad companies are too conservative and even admitting LGBTQ+ people even exist is hard to get people like that to do.

  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
    11·
    14 days ago

    Corporate inclusion done right, how hard is that, Target? Just call your enby customers Targ… Wait, no.

  • 0ops@piefed.zipEnglish
    9·
    13 days ago

    Huh, while I am a man, I’m an ice cream lover first and foremost