Annoying Misogyny...

[elfs]

On XTube, the video site for porn, you have two basic choices: "I am a ( )Man ( )Woman, and I like [ ]Men, [ ]Women." Your sex is a singular choice, but your prefence is multiple choice. When you first visit the site, the settings default to "I am a Man and I like Women."

If you click on "[ ]Men," you get "both." The correct way to specify your preference up front is to click the other choice, to say in effect, "I don't like women." The software, confronted with the choice of not liking either, switches over to the other.

I just find that wrong, in a vaguely irritating way. The best way for a program to seem smart is to not do anything stupid. XTube hasn't done anything programmatically wrong, but it is doing something stupid.

Comments

A sad reality

[jędrzej jaxa-rożen (from livejournal.com)]

It's a pity so many people prefer to live blind, tangled in prejudices so deep that the simplest of observations - that a human being is foremost a person, an individual who can break free from the prison of his perceived gender - escapes them. They never heard or did not want to hear (not to mention discovering it for themselves) the basic notion of continuous sexuality sphere, and prefer to stay in a primitive black-and-white world.
They miss a lot.

Elf, I love you and your writing.

[lovingboth]

Erm, I don't see the problem.

It starts off by guessing you're male interested in straight porn. OK, I might have not done that, but presumably they have usage stats to back it up.

But the absolutely correct response to ticking a tick box is not to untick the other(s). If I tick []Men, I would be outraged at the biphobia if it went 'Ah, no-one likes both' and unticked the []Women one.

Or is this a complaint about something I didn't try - if you start by unticking []Women, it ticks []Men for you?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That seems awkward. And I'm not being paid to figure out a more acceptable alternative UI.