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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 61 points 6 months ago (19 children)

And I, as a front end developer, have to put all of those on this drop down list.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 45 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)
Gender

⚫ Female
⚫ Male
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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
[–] xkbx@startrek.website 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’m a fan of “male” “female” “‘);DROP TABLE gender;—“ myself

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

What have things come to that we are now gendering poor little Bobby Tables?

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