Legally, maybe so, at least until the error is corrected. You'd have to ask a lawyer to be sure.
Ok, now I officially have no reason to care about Wes_W!gender.
"Your gender is whatever you say it is" is a social norm, not a factual claim.
So you agree this social norm has no factual basis to it.
Saying you're a woman doesn't make you a woman.
Good I'm glad we agree on this. Now, why are you trying to defend positions that rely on denying this claim?
People just don't generally assert it unless they actually want to be treated as a woman.
Yes, and creeps, or example, want to be treated as a woman with respect to which bathroom they enter.
Good I'm glad we agree on this. Now, why are you trying to defend positions that rely on denying this claim?
I'm not. I entered this discussion mostly to point out that you were equating "corresponds to social behavior" with "does not correspond to anything", which is silly.
It's worse than gender not corresponding to anything. Like in the standard example, it corresponds to multiple things, which don't necessarily agree.
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Yes, and creeps, or example, want to be treated as a woman with respect to which bathroom they enter.
Do they...
There are some long lists of false beliefs that programmers hold. isn't because programmers are especially likely to be more wrong than anyone else, it's just that programming offers a better opportunity than most people get to find out how incomplete their model of the world is.
I'm posting about this here, not just because this information has a decent chance of being both entertaining and useful, but because LWers try to figure things out from relatively simple principles-- who knows what simplifying assumptions might be tripping us up?
The classic (and I think the first) was about names. There have been a few more lists created since then.
Time. And time zones. Crowd-sourced time errors.
Addresses. Possibly more about addresses. I haven't compared the lists.
Gender. This is so short I assume it's seriously incomplete.
Networks. Weirdly, there is no list of falsehoods programmers believe about html (or at least a fast search didn't turn anything up). Don't trust the words in the url.
Distributed computing Build systems.
Poem about character conversion.
I got started on the subject because of this about testing your code, which was posted by Andrew Ducker.