On 2 Aug 2011, at 08:32, Michael Pavling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 August 2011 22:20, OES <[email protected]> wrote: >> On the Profile I would like to store basic data ie Gender > > Sex. Gender is a term about language being masculine/feminine/neutral. > Sex is male/female.
Except that you're not really interested in finding out whether the user has dangly bits or not (their physical sex); you're interested in finding out their social gender identity is, and 'gender' has been an accepted term for that concept for decades now. On gender and forms: http://meloukhia.net/2009/12/beyond_the_binary_forms.html Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
