A comment on Jezebel: "You know something is up when Gloria Steinem is silent and Laura Bush has Michelle Obama's back." Couldn't have said it better myself. - Rashunda Tramble
They couldn't figure out a better solution besides forcing everyone to enter in their gender? What's next, my address? SSN? Yeah right Facebook... - Liz Burr
Yeah. And my transgender and lesbian friends have been upset at Facebook for awhile... - Mitchell Tsai
@mitchell yeah it sounds like a cop out. I personally choose not to select my gender because the targeted ads to females annoy the hell out of me. That's why my theory is that this isn't simply a "we couldn't figure it out," sounds more like, "we need more concrete data on every user." - Liz Burr
yeah my sister refused to enter her gender till I informed her that facebook was referring to her as my brother. Amazing how defaults scare the blue state snobs out of their elitism. Reality was knocking! - Noah David Simon
"I like the metallic silver ones. ooOOooh.
I am mostly a Nike person, and have been for years, since before high school. I don't really buy any other sneaker. Lately though, I have been thinkin about branching out." - Liz Burr
Which brings us to the Three Stages of Girl Talk: knee-jerk recognition, easy-to-swallow consumption, and, finally, cemented recontextualization. When people go apeshit for his famous Biggie-Elton John pairing, they're taking pleasure in their own memories, the room's collective memory, the indisputable greatness of "Juicy" and "Tiny Dancer", and, possibly above all else, they're cheering for the Girl Talk song that combines all those things so seamlessly. - Liz Burr
