Comments for Sarah Mei

Comment on How Diaspora Connects Users by Clemens

Clemens — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:22:32 +0000

If I got it right I’m able to move my profile to another pod. This would change my diaspora id name@pod1.com -> name@pod2.org or even worse NEWname@pod2.org. Does my buddies get notified that I changed the pod and that I have a different id now?

What happen if two friends change their pod at the same time? are they still able to find each other? thanks!

Comment on Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora by Bean Noneya

Bean Noneya — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:51:25 +0000

Thanks for this. My gender has looked like this: genderqueer cis-female(nice to have a fill in the blank option for once!)
for the last half a year or so. I have many genderqueer(of one sort or another) friends and this has really made them happy. <3

Comment on Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora by tchatche

tchatche — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:49:28 +0000

Thanks for this post, very nice.

Comment on Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora by Reviwgle+ « exhipigeonist blog

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Comment on Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora by say no to gender drop-down boxes!

say no to gender drop-down boxes! — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:43:11 +0000

[...] choose male or female, how would the site know what pronoun to call you? (this was snark, btw). (read about it here). As I said before, Facebook solves my lack of gender choice by calling me ‘their’ [...]

Comment on Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora by custom writing papers

custom writing papers — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:53:51 +0000

I think a gender identity is the way in which an individual identifies with a gender category, for example, as being either a man or a woman, or in some cases being neither, which can be distinct from biological sex.

Comment on Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora by wei dong

wei dong — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:46:32 +0000

“broken faggot”

Comment on Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora by Saplot

Saplot — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:33:20 +0000

Whoa, I’ve long been looking for this kind of progress in form. Thank you very much. (And, english-speaking people, you have the singular they ; we, french speakinf have not “on” is far to ugly. I think a wished pronoun field would be useful…)

Comment on Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora by sarahmei

sarahmei — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:05:43 +0000

Cormac: +1000 for correct usage of “couldn’t care less.”

Comment on Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora by Cormac

Cormac — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:13:28 +0000

I couldn’t care less whether the field is freetext or not. I don’t care how a person identifies themselves. I just hate that the word “gender” has been ripped out of its comfortable use in grammar, and hammered into the place where the perfectly good word “sex” used to be.

Tilting at windmills I may be, but I’ll never accept that political silliness. A person’s “sex” can be female, or any other flavour through the whole spectrum to the voldemort “sex” that dare not say its name – “male”. But gender refers to grammar.

Cheers!