What bothers me the most about this is that iwaku is putting itself in pace as a parent here.
It is one's own choice to disclose their gender, a choice that does bear consequences. It should be my choice to say "this is me" and it is also my choice on how I wish to deal with the odd PMs that are going to occur as a result for ticking female.
I don't need iwaku to take this responsibility for myself away from me and removing it won't truly change a thing, it won't change the fact that this kind of stuff happens.
Now these people would simply look through the threads and look what the pronounce is that is used for an individual. It would only make them require to put more time and effort into it but I can't see how it would truly change a thing.
Demographically, I guess that teenage girls would be the biggest target to this kind of stuff and will continue to be so.
Are you going to remove age next? When are our names going to be removed? Are we going to become identityless robots meant to write and write forever more? To be reduced to a serial number just so nobody gets offended? And if we get offended for having a 0 in our serial number then?
@Astaroth You mean this?
Well, have fun trying to access that on my profile as a regular user. Before you could see gender, such a simple information on the small profile window when clicking my name, without needing access to my profile, which I will continue to not provide.
Why not simply add a default None then or to make entering it purely optional? Or give us the option to hide it, if it was not there before?