Adding pronouns property #2925
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Hi, I don't know if you already considerd that but besides the |
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I think this is probably a "good thing" to have for structured data about Person Is that what you were thinking? |
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It would be very preferable to cite another standard for this, if there is
something suitable out there.
Even in English, if I write “they” for pronouns, am I to be understood as
telling you something about my gender, or about how I want sentences about
me to written and said. Personally I wish everyone used “they” for
describing me, to encourage a climate in which people are mentioned without
their gender always being declared, much as the adoption of “Ms” achieved
for marital status some years ago. However that is goal that may not make
sense in other languages, and is likely not what most people have in mind
when filling out this field.
Some years ago, the old social network Orkut had a “looking for ( men /
women / men and women )” field. Orkut had unexpectedly taken off in Iran
and it turned out that many users there simply missed the
dating/relationships/sex subtext which that profile field had in its
original context, resulting in high % listing “both” (it seems reading this
as an expression of business networking and friend-making interest, or not
reading it at all). This was in a country where homosexuality can result in
people being murdered by the state (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iran).
What I mean by this is that it can be problematic to assume that the ‘real’
intent of a field is universally understood, over and above the definition
given it in schemas and UI. For pronouns, there is so much that is unsaid…
yet understood by those who have learned about it elsewhere.
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Good catch! Thanks for the hint! :)
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I think this is probably a "good thing" to have for structured data about Person
I'd say that a simple property on that called
pronoun
orgenderPronouns
might work?And it could have an Expected Type of
GenderPronounType
orText
?Is that what you were thinking?