GenderHack

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[edit] The Problem

Social software including social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace often encode certain cultural values into their profile builder. There are minority groups for whom such constructions are not appropriate.

[edit] The Aim

GenderHack is meant to be a document intended for people involved in designing or building social software, social networks, data interchange formats or Semantic Web projects, so that they can adequately consider issues of sex, gender identity, social constructed gender status and more flexible approaches to matters of sex and relationships. Eventually, it could become a gender and relationship equivalent of accessibility guidelines.

If this is successful, we can also put together technical formats representing a more enlightened view of gender - specifically, RDF and XML representations.

[edit] Contributing

GenderHack needs the following:

  • Individual testimony
    • If you are an individual who is affected by gender or sex issues on the Internet, it would be interesting and useful to have your testimony.
    • If you have a weblog or other online journal, please consider posting your testimony on there and posting back.
    • If you do not or don't feel it is appropriate, you can sign up for an account on here and post your testimony in your User Space, perhaps on a specific page.
    • Once you have posted your testimony, add it to this page
  • Examples of practice
    • Screenshots
    • Appraisal of good practice
    • Criticisms of bad practice

[edit] How to Contribute

This is a wiki. You can edit this page, or post on the discussion page attached. You need an account though. You can use OpenID to login with your account from sites like AOL, LiveJournal, Vox or WordPress.

If you do not wish to register, or you cannot, or you wish to contribute anonymously, you can e-mail me: tom [at] tommorris [dot] org

[edit] Research

[edit] Bebo

  • Female
  • Male

[edit] Facebook

Facebook only offers male and female as a binary choice, and has male and female checkboxes to choose who you are looking for.

[edit] LiveJournal

  • (unspecified)
  • Male
  • Female

[edit] MySpace

Radio buttons for Male and Female.

Marital Status:

  • Swinger
  • In a Relationship
  • Single
  • Divorced

Sexual Orientation:

  • Bi
  • Gay/Lesbian
  • Straight
  • Not Sure
  • No Answer

[edit] Pownce

Pownce offers a variety of different gender categories:

  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Dude
  • Chicky-poo
  • Bloke
  • Bird
  • Lady
  • Gentleman
  • Male
  • Female
  • Transgender
  • None of the Above

[edit] Yahoo! Mash

  • Female
  • Male

[edit] Clinical terms (CID 7455)

  • Male
  • Female
  • Unknown sex
  • Male Pseudohermaphrodite
  • Female Pseudohermaphrodite
  • Hermaphrodite
  • Male changed to Female
  • Female changed to Male
  • Ambiguous sex
  • Other sex
  • Undetermined sex (temporarily)

See this .doc file (Google-hosted HTML version)

[edit] See

[edit] Reference

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