Facebook adds 50 gender options for users: For those who can't make up their minds

American Thinker ^ | 02/14/2014 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

Are you confused about your gender? You know, man, woman, trans, queer, neutral...and on and on.

Well, there's good news for you people who can't seem to make up your minds. Facebook is adding 50 options to identify what gender your are...or, rather, what you see yourself as...or maybe what you think is hip.

From Associated Press:

"With a click of a cursor, Jay Brown in Cheverly, Md., went from Male to Trans Male. A few states away, Debon Garrigues of Asheville, N.C., switched from Male to Neutral. In San Francisco, Marilyn Roxie, formerly Female, chose three: Androgynous, Transgender and Genderqueer.

Across the country Thursday, news swept through the transgender community that social media giant Facebook had added a customizable option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender as well as three preferred pronoun choices: him, her or them. And one after another, they made their changes in a quiet revolution of sorts.

"For me, this is about much more than a button on a monitor," Garrigues said. "This encourages people to think outside the binary spectrum. It means I don't have to try to fit in the wrong boxes."

For many others, the change went unnoticed - or too far. "Of course Facebook is entitled to manage its wildly popular site as it sees fit, but here is the bottom line: It's impossible to deny the biological reality that humanity is divided into two halves - male and female," said Jeff Johnston, an issues analyst for Focus on the Family, an influential national religious organization based in Colorado Springs, Colo. "Those petitioning for the change insist that there are an infinite number of genders, but just saying it doesn't make it so. "

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

What about parrot gender? I remember reading once a story of a guy who was attracted to parrots LOL!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

You know what this is like? The music industry which is another thing destroyed by liberals. There use to be a few genres in music such as classical, jazz, blues, RnR, R&B, big band. Now they have classifications that go on forever, just 100s of them with a new one sprouting up every week it seems. How about just “good music”?? Same with sex - Gay or straight? But noooooooo, liberals have to classify down to the last freakin’ atom because of their freakin’ obsession with control.

[Lurker]

Wow.

[GreenHornet]

I have no idea what the hell most of these categories are supposed to mean!

Question: Is "Bigender" pronounced "Bi-Gender" (meaning "swings both ways") or is it pronounced "Big-Ender" (meaning "Fat Ass")?

[verga]

IMHO, people who seriuosly have to go to these lengths to somehow define themselves have already gone over the edge psychologically, and are in free fall.

Genesis 1:27 God created mankind in his image; in the image of God he created them; male and female* he created them.

I think this pretty much sums it up nicely. BTW what is "Cis"?

[verga]

Color me stupid, WTF is “Cis”?

[xrmusn]

Chris Plante (WMAL WASHDC) went over this today and said they left off

Retro Sexual....he wanted to have Sex like in the 50’s as long as Don Drapers wife was available (Not really sure he didn’t mean Joan as he mentioned he liked how she filled out her dresses)

He also asked if ‘YOU called me to say I am being judgmental, aren’t you being judgmental’?

[CharlesWayneCT]

I just checked my facebook, and they have a “custom” option, but it lets me type in anything I want. I’m not sure if this is a change, or what.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Color me stupid, WTF is “Cis”?

Cis male stands for “male with a male gender identity”, cis female for “female with a female gender identity”, analogically cis man and cis woman, as well as cissexism and cissexual assumption.

See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender

[SeekAndFind]

RE: BTW what is “Cis”?

Cis male stands for “male with a male gender identity”, cis female for “female with a female gender identity”, analogically cis man and cis woman, as well as cissexism and cissexual assumption.

See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender

[verga]

Thank you. WOW, I mean just WOW! Just when you think we can't go any farther down the road to perdition.....

I honestly think that we re losing the battle and it won't be that much longer until God plays the worldwide Sodom card.

[Izzy Dunne]

Of course, anthropologists, 100 years from now, looking at my skeleton will not be able to tell anything except male.

[hosepipe]

[dfwgator]

“I’m my own best friend.”

[Izzy Dunne]

Cis male stands for “male with a male gender identity”

OK, that could be me, I suppose

I don't understand the difference between
Male
CIS MALE
CIS MAN

But please don't explain it to me.

[Izzy Dunne]

• Male
• Female
• Liberal