yahoo mail services

My concerns are with the creation of a yahoo mail account. I strongly

object to the *gender* box: there are only two genders to choose from,

which does not correspond to reality and shows a disregard of

transgendered and queer people's affirmation of our identity. Furthermore,

I object to the fact that one HAS to fill up the box in order to get an

account. Tell me, how can gender be an important information for an email

service provider? As a women, I wish to have a choice to refuse to reveal

my gender, and to be able to express it with adequate words if I do not

fit traditional gender categories.

My suggestions: create a ‘other’ in addition to male and female. Or, make

the gender question non-mandatory.

another complaint: it appears impossible to file a complaint to Yahoo,

there appears to be no such thing as a 'user's suggestions/complaints'

email. So it goes with hyper-centralized large scale service providers.

I actually never used yahoo, or any other large scale email provider

before. My preference go for small, grassroots independant mail service

providers such as planet-save, ecomail, riseup...where you can actually

TALK to someone(a real person) about your concerns and suggestions, and

where they dont ask you what gender you are in order, i suppose, to better

target advertisement and other crap.

I say, go small. And if you still like using hotmail and yahoo, because

their service do have their advantages, demand that your rights be

respected: decline to take a propr place in the gender-dichotomy couch,

turn the couch upside down and dance on it.

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Ok, you make no sense whatsoever. Your complaining about a gender box not fitting your gender, but later you say "as a women" well that my friend would fit in the female category. I may be wrong but you are probably someone who likes to find every little thing that you complain about to get some attention. Get a cat or something and quit being an idiot.