Hi, On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:56:27 +1200 Penny Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 2/8/05 11:45 AM Miriam Ruiz said the following: > | I totally agree with Don. There are differences between the meaning of > the | words "sex" and "gender", and you will be able to find quite a lot of > | bibliography on that if you want. In case it is added to the database, > I'd | find it much better to add a "gender" field. Anyway, I'm not sure > that it | would be neccesary at all, or even a good idea. In any case, if > it was | implemented, I think it should be optional to fill. > > > +1 for (optional) Gender. -1 for being irrelevant from Debian's point of view. > Sex is problematic for a number of people, in-transition transsexuals, > transgenders, etc. In any case, Gender is usually the established > politically correct way to pose the question. I absolutely agree it > should be optional and is probably unnecessary in the first place. That "problem" arises from the usual set of limited choices. If implemented that should be a free text field, which could lead to interesting statistics about gender in Debian, for example (integer rounded): 50% male 5% female 20% unknown 15% undefined 5% vulcanian 3% none 2% jedi (Of course that's a fictional statistic, everybody knows jedi and vulcanian percentages are a lot higher among DDs :-) -- Ricardo Mones Lastra - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad de Oviedo en Gijon 33271 Asturias, SPAIN. - http://www.aic.uniovi.es/mones -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
