[Noisebridge-discuss] Gender & Technology followups from 5Mof

[Al Billings]

On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Jason Dusek wrote:

>  The term "gender" is probably too ambiguous and too loaded to
>  serve as the name of a form field in which people specify more
>  nuanced aspects of their sexuality. Maybe we need to coin a
>  term? It goes without saying, I think, that people generally
>  encounter the word "gender" on census forms, Equal
>  Opportunities Act forms and health insurance forms where the
>  term is taken to specify whether one is equipped to bear
>  children; using "gender" in another sense makes it both more
>  difficult to augment that kind of information and more
>  difficult to communicate what is really being discussed.

Gender is very open ended. I generally think that both "sex" and  
"gender" should be used together with "sex" usually being a much  
simpler term (and, no, I'm not going to get into a long discussion to  
defend this!). :-)

Al