*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.

[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.

[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

[kyoshyu.livejournal.com]

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