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Optimism I do. I've been on here for many years and I've had an enjoyable time overall.
However, today I found out about repeated gender insensitivity on the part of the staff here... you can read the article for details about what happened.
I know that gender issues aren't as srs bsns to some people as, say, race or sexuality issues. I'm sad to say that I receive fairly insensitive and sometimes angry notes and messages regarding my gender on a weekly basis. I have gotten used to the fact that many people are only comfortable when they're able to fit people into distinct categories. It would be nice, though, if this could change. I can understand if the dA mods mentioned just weren't very well informed, I'm sure we can all pick a topic that is very important to someone else that we can admit we know nothing about.
Instead of getting up-at-arms and vitriolic, I hope that maybe we can all take the chance to read up a little bit about gender and how important it is to some folks. Let's just get informed (here is a nice essay written by ~dmarling if you want to start somewhere), make the changes and apologies that are needed, and give others the respect we'd like given to us.
What do you think?
*edit 3* It looks like the issue is in the process of being resolved
Props to dA for their sensitivity and willingness to work on the issue until a reasonable conclusion was reached! You can read the details of the solution here.*edit 2* via +spyed DA will add an "other" sex option (okay..) and an extended gender option. Took them a while, but they might finally be on the right track.
*edit* From now on, DA only wants to know what you have in your pants. Problem solved? or just avoided?
I feel like I need a doodle to express my gratitude.
deviantART muro drawing
That direction actually pisses me off - big time.
It's hardly fucking relevant. For a bunch of "deviants" deviantart sure seems to have a problem with people deviating from the standards used to determine sex visually at birth,
And NOT used to determine gender BAJHDFKJHDKGH fucking hell ok now I'm getting angry again and this issue is months old.
But when you go out of your way to tell someone something,
especially in a community like deviantart (Which is supposed to be some kind of deviation from the norm, right?) it's a little frustrating to see the kind of attitudes that you get in response.
Now don't get me wrong, I've ran into two people that no matter how kindly you ask a question, they jump to the defense and deem you a "troll" which I think is quite silly. When only you're trying to better understand their piece.
But as I've said, only two people, its bound to happen, but to think I've been here for over 2 years and only ran into THAT many rude people? Its amazing!! The people here overall are wonderful talented people, and I'm so in love with it.
As for the gender thing, pardon me for being a bit naive, but I'm actually not quite sure what gender you are, and whether you're a woman or a man doesn't change the fact that I adore your artwork, the time and skill you put into your work is grand! And gender shouldnt have a thing to do with a persons talent.
So no matter what, heres lookin' at you babe! ^__~ lol
I totally hadn't heard about them taking away the third option until now
I can't get my head around why they would do that, why put effort into taking something way that was good to be left as it was and risk upsetting a hell of a lot of people here.
I thought dA was better than that...
Socks. Many, many socks.
Just kidding, actually, since I don't wear socks.
I'm lucky enough to not have the gender complications alot of people in our society have to deal with; i r girl. and I'm cool with that. but reading these emails, opinions, journals, posts, blogs, ect on this topic sure does heat the fire up in distaste towards the pigheadedstupiditylimitedthoughtocitysegrigatingdumbfoundedness of alot of what is still out there.
I suppose by spreading the word on these sorts of things, people are doing the exact opposite of what they're fighting against: promoting information and knowledge. and thats good. yeah. I think.