Ethical Ocean insists on putting you in a binary gender box. So much for Social Change.

[firecat]

For some reason I came to the attention of the company http://www.ethicalocean.com/ which is an online marketplace for products that it deems ethical. Its Wikipedia article says it offers ethical products in six categories: Eco-Friendly, Organic, Fair Trade, Animal-Friendly, People-Friendly and Social Change.

I care somewhat about the ethics behind products I buy so I went to look at the web site. You have to sign up before you can look. You can sign up with your Facebook account or with an email address. If you put in your email address, you are required to specify your gender and choose whether you care most about "rights," "environment," or "animals."

I guess I'm naive to expect that a company that is supposed to care about ethics, rights, and social change would have a clue that gender isn't binary and that gender isn't any of its effing business.

Comments

[delight]

Have you contacted them about this/do you have the mental capacity &or spoons right now to do this/would you like someone else to?

[firecat]

I unsubscribed from their mailing list; there was a field offering the option to explain why, and I explained.

I don't currently have the energy/spoons for more than that. If other people care + have the energy/spoons + think it would be worthwhile to complain, I would welcome it.

[centuryplant]

Also they're more interested in getting you to spam your friends than actually allowing you to buy things.

[firecat]

Aha!

[evilawyer]

Partner Facebook has a strong need to know. F*uck 'em all, I say. Or maybe don't. Whichever would annoy them most.