LJ fails again! This time, on gender issues.
Monday, December 14th, 2009 22:27As of their next code push (and LJ's code pushes tend to happen on Thursdays), LiveJournal will require all users to specify "male" or "female" for their account's gender. No third option.
The change is almost certainly to target advertising in a more gender-stereotyped way.
EDIT: 2009-12-15 10:30 EST
Probably thanks to the many people contacting LJ, the code has been pulled. It will not be going live in the next code push.
Unfortunately, I don't trust LJ not to attempt to sneak something like this through again.
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synecdochic has a summary. She suggests going to the Edit Profile page and changing your gender to Unspecified, contacting Feedback, and emailing the GM of US operations at anjelika@livejournalinc.com.
( complete list of posts on my Dreamroll re: lj's genderfail )
Geek Feminism also has a post.
If anyone reading this would like a Dreamwidth account (Dreamwidth's diversity statement specifically includes and "welcome[s] people of any gender identity or expression"), I have some invite codes, and if they run out, I'm willing to buy accounts for people who need them.
The change is almost certainly to target advertising in a more gender-stereotyped way.
EDIT: 2009-12-15 10:30 EST
Probably thanks to the many people contacting LJ, the code has been pulled. It will not be going live in the next code push.
Unfortunately, I don't trust LJ not to attempt to sneak something like this through again.
synecdochic has a summary. She suggests going to the Edit Profile page and changing your gender to Unspecified, contacting Feedback, and emailing the GM of US operations at anjelika@livejournalinc.com.( complete list of posts on my Dreamroll re: lj's genderfail )
Geek Feminism also has a post.
If anyone reading this would like a Dreamwidth account (Dreamwidth's diversity statement specifically includes and "welcome[s] people of any gender identity or expression"), I have some invite codes, and if they run out, I'm willing to buy accounts for people who need them.
