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The ability to choose to display your gender or not
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Posted: Sun, 08/12/2013 12:38 (10 Years ago)
Posted: Sun, 08/12/2013 13:27 (10 Years ago)
to be honest, 99.999999999999999% of the people on this site aren't going to care what gender someone is or isn't at any given moment as long as they deal with their pokemon fairly, follow the rules, and don't be a jerk (and in the event that someone doesn't do one of those things, they still won't care, and rules here aren't discriminatory against gender anyways)
not that i don't support equal gender representation, but that's not what we're ultimately on the site for, we're here for pokemon and to catch em all and in the end, what gender any one person is doesn't matter at all, cause the thing that unites us is our love for a lot of weird little critters :p
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Posted: Sun, 08/12/2013 21:30 (10 Years ago)
You get support from me tough because if somebody don't want to show their gender, they should be able too :)
Posted: Sun, 08/12/2013 21:55 (10 Years ago)
I merely made this suggestion so those who don't like having their gender shown to everyone would have a choice to hide it, with nothing else in mind. :p
Posted: Mon, 09/12/2013 02:59 (10 Years ago)
Posted: Mon, 09/12/2013 03:30 (10 Years ago)
I still think that the opportunity should be made available. Like with most things, there will be those who abuse or manipulate this. However, we don't make anyone prove that they are one gender or another when signing up for the site, and that is abusable. For example, had I wanted, I could have said I was a guy on singing up. That is the freedom of the internet.
But what Finhawk is asking is not a loophole for trolls to act like jerks on Pokeheroes. Instead, she is asking for an option to not be called one gender or another. What would abusing it serve? If you hide your gender, don't be offended by people using the "wrong" pronouns. I don't care either way when people don't know what gender I am, and if it is ever something that matters, I just politely mention it.
Having something like a grey circle, or a gender neutral/trans symbol (like the genderless Pokemon have)should not be something that will be heavily abused. If there is anything you worry about being abused, please tell us what you think might happen, and what scares you.
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Posted: Mon, 09/12/2013 04:37 (10 Years ago)
Posted: Mon, 09/12/2013 04:49 (10 Years ago)
I read through the posts before, but cannot remember who said what if it is a different page
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Posted: Tue, 10/12/2013 11:12 (10 Years ago)
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Posted: Sun, 26/01/2014 03:11 (10 Years ago)
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Posted: Sun, 26/01/2014 03:27 (10 Years ago)
ph is basically a game for kids. this implements automatically that it's not a datingsite or a showroom for personal viewing.
and after people had pms here with content like "wanna do some [things, that kids don't do] things with me? <3" it's time for stop showing genders here.
Posted: Sun, 26/01/2014 04:05 (10 Years ago)
I wouldn't really mind being called a he because of my username. (Or soon-to be old username) I just go with it.
Posted: Mon, 10/02/2014 00:05 (10 Years ago)
So, I would use this option to hide my gender, not minding if people call me a he or she on here, since both would be considered perfectly fine. But seeing the female icon by my username bothers me a little since the username is his nickname.
And I would like to make a note that I did not know this would bother me when I joined the site. It's just something that's been bothering me a fair bit for over a week now (Only being two weeks old at the time of this post) and I've cut back on my online time a little because it does bother me.
Posted: Tue, 11/02/2014 00:10 (10 Years ago)
As for people faking their gender, what's to stop a girl from clicking the male option or a male from clicking the female option now? Who knows maybe some people have already done it.
I noticed this when I joined and after all the other sites I've seen it did kind of make me tilt my head, like, where is the "other" option or where is the "hide gender" button? In this day and age we can't just say "you HAVE to choose male or female" because let's face it some people aren't just one or the other or either and do have a right to keep that private even if they are male or female.
And again we don't really need to broadcast "I'm a female!" Or "I'm a male!" On a site that has nothing to do with gender. It just seems like opening a window to favoritism as I saw mentioned before and for people to treat you differently. Who knows some people might only want guy friends, or lady friends, on their friend's list and this can prevent people from branching out.
And there is nothing stoping people from saying they are female or male in their bio/profile, they can type it and people will know, just don't force people to broadcast it for everyone to see who don't want to.
Posted: Sat, 15/02/2014 01:07 (10 Years ago)
Posted: Sat, 15/02/2014 01:28 (10 Years ago)
Plus, I don't really see why someone would want to fake their gender.
Posted: Sat, 15/02/2014 11:06 (10 Years ago)
Posted: Sat, 15/02/2014 15:07 (10 Years ago)