Earlier quoted context omitted.
What I mean by "living in a bubble" is you believing something that is not true, because everyone in the bubble is telling you its true. Hence you believing that only including M/F as gender options is something that would greatly affect the success of an app. That is flat out not true. I promise you the vast majority of the world, or even the vast majority of the anglosphere do not care. People like the OP from othe…
> Hence you believing that only including M/F as gender options is something that would greatly affect the success of an app. That is neither what I believe nor what I wrote. You are making up that argument in your head and attacking a straw man. If you open a restaurant which only serves spicy food and I tell you “many people won’t come here because they dislike spicy food” while giving you a list of reasons why you…
> You only allow “male” and “female” which right off the bat will make many people close the website, *even if they identify with either*
We are not in a restaurant and talking about food where there are so, so many choices. We are talking about implementing drop down menu for gender lol. In context, saying that many people will outright close the app is clearly implying that you think the success of the app can be affected.
And the reason?
Because they only allow male and female. Those are your words.
> Obviously and demonstrably false.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320313
Demonstrating nothing of the sort lol. Central Asia still have strong gender norms. In many places they are still thinking the role of women in society is to marry and have children. The idea of NB is not even in its infancy there.