{"id":835,"date":"2003-09-24T17:18:34","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/09\/24\/alphabetizing_and_crankiness.html"},"modified":"2003-09-24T17:18:34","modified_gmt":"2003-09-24T17:18:34","slug":"alphabetizing_and_crankiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/09\/24\/alphabetizing_and_crankiness.html","title":{"rendered":"alphabetizing and crankiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit cranky today.  I&#8217;m usually very happy to look at new social networks services and share my thoughts with site creators, but i&#8217;m *really* tired of having the same automatic grumbling reaction concerning one issue: the ordering of sex identifiers during sign-up.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to alphabetize everything else in your sign-up, alphabetize sex.  Male \/ Female is only a clear reminder of who you value in your system.  I can deal with the abuse of the term gender, but c&#8217;mon now.. give me one good reason for not alphabetizing sex terms other than cultural sexism?<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re a website creator (or know of one), (let them) know that this practice is really insulting.<\/p>\n<p><b>Companies currently making me cranky:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friendster\n<li>Buddybridge\n<li>ChiaFriend\n<li>Everyone&#8217;s Connected (even defaults to male &#038; straight!  grrr)\n<li>It&#8217;s Not What You Know\n<li>Sona (Man\/Woman on outside; Male\/Female on inside)\n<li>Ryze\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Companies who get it:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tribe (even has a &#8220;prefer not to say option&#8221;)\n<li>FriendSurfer\n<li>Ringo\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Note: &#8220;Prefer not to say&#8221; is very appreciated in sites not dedicated to dating&#8230; Because what&#8217;s the importance of sex other than reminding the user that you&#8217;re selling their data to advertisers?]<\/p>\n<p>Update: The worst abuse is MySpace which not only assumes male\/female but in asking you who you are looking for, it inverts it to say woman\/man.  Very male-centric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit cranky today. I&#8217;m usually very happy to look at new social networks services and share my thoughts with site creators, but i&#8217;m *really* tired of having the same automatic grumbling reaction concerning one issue: the ordering of sex identifiers during sign-up. If you&#8217;re going to alphabetize everything else in your sign-up, alphabetize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}