FUCK YEAH, GENDERQUEERS
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Oh, Facebook.
[Image: A screenshot of a section of a facebook newsfeed. The picture and name have been blacked out. It says “(Name) updated their cover photo.”]
See anything unusual? Yeah that’s right, their. Oh yus.
On the “edit profile” page of Facebook, where it allows you to choose your gender, enter each of these into the address bar. Whichever gender is selected in the box will be unselected when you click “save changes”.
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javascript:void(document.getElementById(‘sex’).options[0].value=’0’);
javascript:void(document.getElementById(‘sex’).options[1].value=’0’);Yeah that’s cool. When it works. But with the new Timeline view…
[Image: A screenshot of a section of a facebook timeline editor. It says “Basic Info” with a dropdown box after the words “I am”. Dropdown box is currently on “Select gender”. Underneath is an unchecked checkbox saying “Show my sex on my timeline.”]
“Show my sex in my timeline.” Say what? Sex? But it still says “select gender” if you’ve deselected a gender while on regular profile mode - and therefore still uses neutral pronouns and doesn’t show a gender. I’m not sure if you can still use the above lines to deselect if you’ve switched to Timeline while using a binary gender marker - anyone know? The dropdown options here are Male and Female, as usual.
Interestingly, I listed a friend as my mother on Facebook (yeah yeah I know, I know), and she accepted - meaning she didn’t need to signify what I was in relation to her, since FB generally tries to figure it out. Apparently it had no idea what to do with me since I didn’t use a gender on my profile so it assigned me as her son. Led to a lot of lolwhats from friends who didn’t know I had deselected gender as opposed to just hiding it on my profile.
Facebook, y u make things ridiculous for nonbinaries?
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FUCK YEAH, GENDERQUEERS!: Oh, Facebook.
[Image: A screenshot of a section of a facebook newsfeed. The picture and name have been blacked out. It says “(Name) updated their cover photo.”]
See anything unusual? Yeah that’s right, their. Oh yus.
On the “edit profile” page of Facebook, where it allows you to choose your gender,…
I unselected my gender, and it now lists me as a brother. \damn facebook misogyny.
Yeah, I figure it’s because while you used to be able to use neutral pronouns through selection a while back you always had to use gendered family terms. Things like “sibling” or “offspring”/”child” simply don’t exist on the system while they/their/theirs does.
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Oh, Facebook.
Somebody show/tell me how to do this…? I can only select male/female….. I don’t like it…… :[
HERE’S HOW TO DO IT: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=549384115767 okay do that, and then on your family’s profiles IT WILL DEFAULT TO son/male cousin/nephew so you have to have your parents/aunts/uncles go to “family” on their page and then select whatever they want to select, or hack it for them, whatever. But be aware that it will default to male, and from experience I know that this can cause problems if you’re not out to your family!
Thanks for that! I reckon it’ll be very helpful to those still having issues. If you’re unsure about what to change it to, here’s what I’ve got under “inspect element” for the gender field. Using Chrome.
<select id=”sex” name=”sex” onchange=”var no_gender = ($("sex").value == 0);
var checkbox = $("sex_visibility"); if (no_gender) { checkbox.checked = false; } else if (checkbox.disabled) { checkbox.checked = true; } checkbox.disabled = no_gender; “><option value=”0” selected=”1”>Select gender</option><option value=”1”>Female</option><option value=”2”>Male</option></select>
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