*sigh*

[bladespark]

WTF Deviantart. Of all the places on the internet that I'd pick for forcing people into the gender binary, that would be the last one.

I don't get as upset as some when "male" and "female" are the only offered options, I'm actually perfectly comfortable with either one. But honestly... most sites I chalk it up to short-sightedness and the rareness of the gender-ambiguous, and that's why it doesn't bug me. People often just don't know that there are other options. DA really doesn't have that excuse. They know about this issue, there has been a lot of fuss about this issue. I can only conclude that they're bigots.

I guess it goes along with the "penis is porn but vaginas and lesbian sex are art" attitude.

Cue me becomming even less inclined to use DA than I already am.

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[pointytilly.livejournal.com]

I left mine on unspecified so I can sit in their stats as neither of the above

forever

...or until they smarten up and give me my damn "other". But given that response, I'm not holding my breath.

Sadly, dA is one of the only active places for fanwork for my main fandom. It's that or Pixiv (who require you to specify on a binary but let you hide the field, which is better than nothing), and I doubt I could get most of English-speaking fandom there. Asfsdfdf.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I haven't up and deleted my account yet either, as I get some business of of there, and money sort of matters just now, but it makes me wish I'd picked "other" back when I could, just out of sheer contrariness.

[pointytilly.livejournal.com]

By contrast, Flickr allows for an "Other". You can even publically display that like the other options.

Who is Flickr owned by? Yahoo. Yahoo will only let you hide your gender by hiding your whole profile—as I found out after it cheerfully made my profile public for me, complete with my messing-up-their-statistics picking of "male". I'd been getting gay dating site spam, and suddenly I knew why :p.

[thalass.livejournal.com]

Doesn't DA automagically own any and all files uploaded to their server? And can use it any way they wish? Or was that fixed? Or... maybe that's facebook. haha. *facepalm*

It's been ages since i've used DeviantArt. It's also been ages since i've drawn something i wasn't intending to build.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Heh. No, that was people being stupid and paranoid. DA had the right to "use" any art that was uploaded, ie. they had the right to store it on their servers and display it on the site! Because otherwise uploading wouldn't do you much good, if it wasn't then displayed.

[candychic125.livejournal.com]

Yeah I'd always argue in a case like that, why do you "need" to know what the gender is?

Plus, thanks for answering my AB question. As in my actual question. I'm getting a lot of people ragging on me about "thinking" about going into business on my own without even touching the insurance aspect, lol

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yeah. As if the fact that you're asking there first doesn't sort of prove that you're going about things the right way. :P

Honestly most of them seem to have weird ideas about what "going into business" means. As though you were going to rent a building and incorporate or something.

[kyoshyu.livejournal.com]

Dumb move on DA's part, and will alienate more of their users than they'd wish for.