And I, as a front end developer, have to put all of those on this drop down list.
Gender
⚫ Female
⚫ Male
🔘 Gliese 436 bBut 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):
Best to put them in an autocomplete dropdown. My gender is xerxes 1.18373772918474920102738172636634, not to be confused with xerxes 1.18373772918474920402738172636634
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.
Nice.
I thought it was because Venus spins in the opposite direction from most others planets.
Boys are from Mars,
Girls are from Venus,
You've got a yumyum,
I've got a penis.
Found Linda.
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?
At least that way we can be reasonably sure that en are from Jupiter
Actually are we going to end up with ‘minus’ letters I think we are ‘n’ are from Saturn and ‘ ‘ are from Neptune - who is from Uranus?
Obligatory shoutout to the podcast "If books could kill".
I've never actually bothered to find out what that book was actually trying to claim, so I had a bit of a lol at the description of that episode:
In 1992 a yoga instructor with a distance-learning PhD had the courage to ask: "Are women not getting help around the house because they're using the wrong modal verb?"
