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[bcholmes]

Research help! I'm trying to find either a link, or the magic Google words to find a link. Here's what I remember: some time around 6 to 12 months ago, some common site (like Blogspot or Blogger, or something. Or maybe it was even LJ) changed its policy on gender to include "It's complicated" in the drop-down. Someone on my reading page linked to a rant by some dude who was apoplectic about this, and was going to Take His Ball And Go Home. Can anyone remember that link? Or maybe what the site was the changed its gender selection policy?

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[frandroid]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginatrapani/5493081089/

Google Profiles?

[wrdnrd]

I vaguely recall some pother when Diaspora turned their gender field into a text box.

[trouble]

The rant in question, with the programmer taking his ball and going home, was about Diaspora. I remember it.

Here's where the rant used to be: www.­diaspora-­news.­net/­2010/­11/­29/­im-­dropping-­diaspora-­this-­site-­is-­now-­closed/­

I can't find it in the cache, though. Linguphiles discussed it: http://linguaphiles.livejournal.com/5331786.html

[bcholmes]

Ooo! That and a simple application of the Wayback Machine found me the post.

Thanks so much!

[trouble]

Excellent! I'm glad it got grabbed by WayBack. :)

[wrdnrd]

HISTORIANS KNOW ALL. /genuflect

[onyxlynx]

It might have been LJ; I remember a brouhaha about making the gender field mandatory and that being a compromise that, apparently, nobody liked.

I searched here for the term "it's complicated," and got one thousand possible hits.

[the_siobhan]

I'm tempted put "take my ball and go home" into google just to see what I get.