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Re:Genders.wtf by no-dr-onboard on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @12:12PM (#34341020)
> I don't care about your gender or sexual orientation unless I want to have a sexual relationship with you.

I feel the same way and have never been able to get a good answer for this one. "Statistics and hiring" is a very lame-duck answer. How does it help our product knowing that we have +1 more homonormative person?

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Re:Genders.wtf by ellisv on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @12:40PM (#34341488)
> How does it help our product knowing that we have +1 more homonormative person?

Apparently it helped Subaru a lot. [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/how-sub...

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Re:Genders.wtf by jfengel on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @12:35PM (#34341383)
It means that you know that you don't have zero.

If you have zero, and you're big enough to be collecting data, there's a good chance that something is wrong.

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