Another gender enforcement rant

[firecat]

I just tried signing up again for Second Life. The first time, quite a while back, I gave up early in the process because I couldn't find a "last name" that I liked among the offered choices. Today I got farther into the form, but I ended up not signing up, because the form required me to specify a gender.

Why the fuck does SL care about my gender identity???

Comments

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

So they can target ads at you?

[firecat]

I can see why they would *want* my gender identity for that purpose, but if they *require* it, I don't sign up at all, which makes them unable to target any ads at me.