Signal Boost

You've probably already seen this on the rest of your flist, but in case you haven't, Livejournal is implementing a change to make the gender field a required fill on new account creation, and limiting your choices to male and female. No other, no unspecified, just the binary points. If you are trans or genderqueer or intersexed, or if you don't want your gender out there because you don't want to be judged/dismissed/hit on/assaulted, or if you don't want to be targeted by intrusive, sexist ads, well, that's just too bad for you. Because Livejournal has advertising to sell, dontcha know.

synecdochic has a much better post here about why this is stupid and offensive, and how you can contact LJ to register your protest. I'll...just be over here, wanting to punch the whole world in the face.