Hullo LJ, you fucktard, you.

So, now you can't be on lj if you don't identify as male or female. tata, gender ambiguity. And why? So they can litter your pages with better ads. Sheeesh.

In the interests of full disclosure, I have 'female' selected. Whatever. I identify as female. Doesn't make me better. Doesn't do a single damn thing, really, other than get me pelted with diet and dating advertisements. Four years ago, I'd have picked unspecified. Five, I'd prolly have picked male.

Ironically, I'm half-way through an essay/article/whatever about how cool it is that you can construct your own identity online. Way to fuck that up, lj.

Anyway, constructive things. Set your gender to unspecified, if you'd rather. Head on over here for more and better info. Send lj feedback.

I have one Dreamwidth invite left, so, if you want, drop me a line.

An Update of sorts

to this post. Apparently (you might be able to read code, I can't) the gender specification-thing has been pushed back. So, a cautious yay.