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wakest | 7 years ago

Was excited to see this because there is a serious lack of good contact managers / address book software and signed up to their demo right away but was quite disappointed to see their default options for adding a new contact were: 1. First Name 2. Last Name 3. Gender: Male / Female / I'd rather not say

I would not trust the software from a project that thinks the third most important thing about a person is their gender and certainly not trust them from their perception that there are only two valid genders or "lets not talk about it"

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stedaniels|7 years ago

> Features:

> Management of contact field types

> Ability to set custom genders

There's no way to please everyone with defaults, that's why things are configurable. Being so negative because they likely went with a simple majority config (from their perspective) by default for a field that is such a minor part of the whole system is ludicrous.

nik1aa5|7 years ago

File an issue and discuss this or commit a merge request that includes the options you think are missing.

While I'm with you politically: If a narrow perception on gender was a reason for not using a specific software, I probably couldn't use any software at all.

AFAIK, Microsoft, Apple, Google and others don't give you more options in this regard either. So I find it quite harsh to abandon a small project like this but accept what you get from bigger companies.

wakest|7 years ago

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weego|7 years ago

How often do you optimise your work for less than 1% of the population?

joshwcomeau|7 years ago

If it's a trivial thing to change, and that 1% has the highest suicide rate in society? I'd say it's the most important thing they could do at this point.

Also, I am cisgendered, and it's important to me. So it's more than 1% of the population. Or do you believe that you have to be a member of a group to be bothered by things that affect them?

philtar|7 years ago

How strange that you would associate a person's software development skills with how up to date they are in terms of gender politics.