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A comment on XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public.

Re:XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to... by ignifero on Friday July 08, 2011 @08:31AM (#2742158)
I support the ability to hide sex as an option, clearly on the grounds that more options are better. But the logic presented here to support it is really wrong. It's the same logic by which women hid themselves in burqas, long dresses, and the shadows of their men for centuries. If anything, having sex open might encourage everyone to be more aware of the issues that arise and fix them.
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Re:XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to... by dgabriel on Friday July 08, 2011 @10:13AM (#2742465)
No it's not. It's the same logic that by which women choose gender-neutral or masculine nicknames when interacting with strangers on the internet. I do this.
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Re:XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to... by ignifero on Friday July 08, 2011 @10:31AM (#2742538)
Because you believe that the men of the internet are hostile towards women, you can't do anything to fix that, so it's best to hide?
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Re:XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to... by cjzhang on Friday July 08, 2011 @01:36PM (#2743346)
Because when they complain about being sexually harassed or uncomfortable with the attention they get by being seen as a pair of tits, men invariably say or imply that they're being unreasonable for being offended, which doesn't solve the problem itself (which is that they're offended)?
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