This is where we are at as a country: some kids create an app for public use and are now being forced to apologize because they only included two genders. Horrifying, I know. They’re clearly Hitler reincarnate.
If you’ll excuse me, I will be buying up stock in Kleenex and coloring books. I have a feeling sales are about to skyrocket.
Twenty-six members of the Undergraduate Council, including UC President Yasmin Z. Sachee ’18 and Vice President Cameron K. Khansarinia ’18, signed a letter admonishing Datamatch’s restrictive gender choices.
Datamatch, a matchmaking algorithm created by the Harvard Computer Society for Valentine’s Day, forced students to choose “male” or “female” without offering options for genderqueer or gender non-conforming students. The algorithm’s website this year, however, allowed students to elaborate on their gender identity in a text box, but only after selecting one of the two genders provided.
And of course…
“I, on behalf of the Harvard Computer Society and on Datamatch, take full responsibility for the exclusion that we have created on campus,” Cuan-Martinez said at the meeting.
This is what college is doing to the youth, it’s turning them into weenies who need to apologize because someone, somewhere got their feefees hurt.