http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2010/11/26/disalienation/

HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1944628

Slightly less relevant: gender done right by, of all things, a social networking game.

Here's a review: http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=3053

On matters like forced revealing of gender, my gender is rage.

I'm in the process of trying to convince an genderfork academic I'm friends with to actually put a 20 marks question on an exam "what is your gender?".

It would also be ideal, given the current sexist state of language, to add a combo box to choose if you want to be refered to as "he", "she", or, in what now seems like a distant utopia, gender-neutrally, obviously given each language possibilities. That would be so much a big step into having gender equality on the net that the fact no big social network has done it yet tells us about how misunderstood a problem discrimination and biases towards sex and gender are.