Quote from: hilariousetc on November 10, 2017, 08:25:45 AM

or attack helicopters?

I'd love to finally be able to identify as my true self!

Quote from: Lauda on November 10, 2017, 09:49:04 AM

Quote from: nahtnam on November 10, 2017, 09:42:07 AM

On a side note, does anyone actually believe gender is a social construct?

(Relatively) Quite a lot of people nowadays do.

I think it's only very few people, but they're terribly loud about it and receive way more attention than they should.

Quote from: theymos on November 10, 2017, 11:37:11 AM

Unfortunately, I think that you misunderstand the system. Given the trillions of different gender identities, we have adopted a coding system in which each gender identity is assigned a 64-bit number. For example, and only for illustration (I do not wish to presume your wingspan), Apache-attack-helicopter-gendered people would need to input the easy-to-remember code 0x9b68d151aeefa34f. In order to maintain compatibility with legacy systems, however, this is done by submitting the form multiple times with different genders. For example, in this case you would input Male Female Female Male Male Female Male Male Female Male Male Female Male Female Female Female Male Male Female Male Female Female Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Female Female Male Male Female Male Female Male Male Male Female Male Male Male Female Male Male Male Male Male Female Male Female Female Female Male Male Female Male Female Female Male Male Male Male. Simple! Now, it may seem discriminatory to assign Male 1 and Female 0, but not to worry! The coding is designed so that you can also input the inverse and get the same result. And to avoid left-handed bias, you can also enter it in opposite order. In fact, you can just put in whatever sequence of entries you want and the result will be the same.

What if I accidentally exchange a male for a female while doing this? I might end up a identifying as a refrigerator, that's cold man!

On a serious note, something that fits in Meta but isn't worth it's own thread: I noticed yesterday that my post count is shown under my nickname:

Code:

Activity: 938
Posts: 2645

It's only for my own posts, as I didn't enable this in Options. Is there a reason for this change, maybe to make it more obvious when you lose posts due to threads getting trashed?