TomC
Bless Your Heart!
- Joined
- Oct 1, 2020
- Messages
- 8,976
- Location
- Midwestern USA
- Gender
- Faggot
- Basic Beliefs
- Agnostic deist
No. It's gender+Is "faggot" a gender?Would describing oneself as "faggot" be a problem? Perhaps a little to thorough and honest?
I have a very gendered screen name. Anybody sufficiently familiar with the language spoken on IIDB to communicate will know that much about me.
That's not true of all posters. You and Ziprhead have so much in common.
Adding "faggot" would just be strong evidence that I'm also gay, really out, and kinda mouthy without much regard for decorum.
It seems to me that that belongs in a 'sexual orientation' field, not a 'gender' field. But then, perhaps that's because I know what I and most people mean by sexual orientation, but I don't know what iidb means, or shall decide to mean, by 'gender'.
I am trying to get clarity around this field and whether iidb has introduced new rules of engagement.
Honestly, when I made the suggestion, I didn't expect it to become a venue for performance art.
I've been on many forums where one of the little symbols by your screen name was the male symbol, the female symbol, a combination symbol, or none. It made it easier to be polite is all. I don't recall ever seeing gendering weaponized before IIDB/TFT.
Tom