Re: [mb-style] Request for Debate: Two decisions on gender needed for the NGS devs: Q2: Alternate Genders

2010-02-21 Thread swisschris
jacobbrett wrote: Kuno Woudt wrote: I'd vote for: - unknown, female, male, other. +1 it's complicated is not a label for other I can agree with. For many people who would not identify as female or male it is quite clear and not complicated at all. -- kuno / warp.

Re: [mb-style] Request for Debate: Two decisions on gender needed for the NGS devs: Q2: Alternate Genders

2010-02-21 Thread Andrew John Hughes
On 18 February 2010 15:55, Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com wrote: The second question is one I've seen discussed (in the hypothetical, if we ever did have artist genders) many many times, including in

Re: [mb-style] Request for Debate: Two decisions on gender needed for the NGS devs: Q2: Alternate Genders

2010-02-19 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2010/2/19 Kuno Woudt k...@frob.nl On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:55:09AM -0500, Brian Schweitzer wrote: The second question is one I've seen discussed (in the hypothetical, if we ever did have artist genders) many many times, including in

Re: [mb-style] Request for Debate: Two decisions on gender needed for the NGS devs: Q2: Alternate Genders

2010-02-19 Thread jacobbrett
Kuno Woudt wrote: I'd vote for: - unknown, female, male, other. it's complicated is not a label for other I can agree with. For many people who would not identify as female or male it is quite clear and not complicated at all. -- kuno / warp. Agreed. I like the AR idea too. --

Re: [mb-style] Request for Debate: Two decisions on gender needed for the NGS devs: Q2: Alternate Genders

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Schweitzer
The second question is one I've seen discussed (in the hypothetical, if we ever did have artist genders) many many times, including in http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz/2010/2010-01/2010-01-20.html#T18-26-42-754738 Question: Person artists currently can be set to (blank), male, and

Re: [mb-style] Request for Debate: Two decisions on gender needed for the NGS devs: Q2: Alternate Genders

2010-02-18 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com wrote: The second question is one I've seen discussed (in the hypothetical, if we ever did have artist genders) many many times, including in

Re: [mb-style] Request for Debate: Two decisions on gender needed for the NGS devs: Q2: Alternate Genders

2010-02-18 Thread Paul C. Bryan
Gender is a social construct, and is always necessarily correlated to genetics, birth defect, surgery, etc. I propose that gender is all MB should be noting. MB is not a DNA or health records database. My vote would be for: male, female, blank (unknown). If a gender changes, my vote would be to

Re: [mb-style] Request for Debate: Two decisions on gender needed for the NGS devs: Q2: Alternate Genders

2010-02-18 Thread Paul C. Bryan
I meant to say and is *NOT* always necessarily correlated to genetics, etc. On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 08:25 -0800, Paul C. Bryan wrote: Gender is a social construct, and is always necessarily correlated to genetics, birth defect, surgery, etc. I propose that gender is all MB should be noting. MB

Re: [mb-style] Request for Debate: Two decisions on gender needed for the NGS devs: Q2: Alternate Genders

2010-02-18 Thread Kuno Woudt
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:55:09AM -0500, Brian Schweitzer wrote: The second question is one I've seen discussed (in the hypothetical, if we ever did have artist genders) many many times, including in http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz/2010/2010-01/2010-01-20.html#T18-26-42-754738