DeviantArt controversy
Nov. 4th, 2010 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yukinoomoniSo, deviantArt has decided that there are only two genders than people are allowed to define themselves as. Source here.
What do I think about this? Oddly, I can see both sides, but in various degrees.
In the tiniest, smallest degree, I can see what they're doing: they're using the "scientific" argument to state that human beings can physically be only one or the other, and they would like all and any uses to define themselves as such.
But, the biggest, angriest, most frustrated and disgusted part is simply shrieking out, WHY?? Why does everyone need to do it? Why do they need people to be so finite? Why do they have to put every single person into a gender-specific box? By removing the third option, they're insulting and slapping every single person who identifies themselves as that "Other" - some of them probably years-long and loyal members. Why would they not only do this, but also be so obstreperous about it? As if they had done no wrong?
Now, while writing this,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yamiloo informed me that she received word from another source that they are working to correct it. But while that's nice, I still don't understand why any of this - and all of this - was done in the first place. It's something, I think, all of the deviantArt users should think about.
What do I think about this? Oddly, I can see both sides, but in various degrees.
In the tiniest, smallest degree, I can see what they're doing: they're using the "scientific" argument to state that human beings can physically be only one or the other, and they would like all and any uses to define themselves as such.
But, the biggest, angriest, most frustrated and disgusted part is simply shrieking out, WHY?? Why does everyone need to do it? Why do they need people to be so finite? Why do they have to put every single person into a gender-specific box? By removing the third option, they're insulting and slapping every single person who identifies themselves as that "Other" - some of them probably years-long and loyal members. Why would they not only do this, but also be so obstreperous about it? As if they had done no wrong?
Now, while writing this,
yamiloo informed me that she received word from another source that they are working to correct it. But while that's nice, I still don't understand why any of this - and all of this - was done in the first place. It's something, I think, all of the deviantArt users should think about.