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Dec. 15th, 2009 01:30 pmIf you've been online in the last couple days, you may have noticed that LJ almost went ahead with a code push to change gender prefs (in your profile) to a single Male/Female choice.
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synecdochic has a good post about it here.
I'm glad that it got headed off at the pass -- and I'm also glad it came up, because a)it means the new LJ management team understands it's a big deal and, much less importantly, b) I (as a cisgendered woman who has the privilege of not paying attention to such things) now know that LJ specifies what advertising I see based on the gender I tell them I am.
I was, indeed, seeing a lot of dieting bullshit ads.
I've now set my prefs there to "unspecified". I'm interested to see what ads for people of unspecified gender are going to look like.
synecdochic has a good post about it here.I'm glad that it got headed off at the pass -- and I'm also glad it came up, because a)it means the new LJ management team understands it's a big deal and, much less importantly, b) I (as a cisgendered woman who has the privilege of not paying attention to such things) now know that LJ specifies what advertising I see based on the gender I tell them I am.
I was, indeed, seeing a lot of dieting bullshit ads.
I've now set my prefs there to "unspecified". I'm interested to see what ads for people of unspecified gender are going to look like.