To think that 'Female' shouldn't be the 4th option in a list of 5 when being asked about gender?

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I'm having a rubbish day and am in the midst of feeling annoyed about everything so I'm quite happy to be told I'm over reacting.
I've just completed a survey sent to me by Dominos pizza (following a recent order). At the end of the survey it asked for a few questions for 'classification purposes'. It then asked 'Please select your gender', the bit that really annoyed me was the the 'Female' option was 4th down the list of 5 options. Surely it should state male & female as the first two, and then the non-binary / third gender, Prefer to self describe, Prefer not to answer options?
I just feel angry that female has been relegated to 4th place. Obviously male was number 1 in the list !
Apologies if this isn't the right place to rant, it's just been one of those days.

Yep, that could work. It's a kind of "the horse has already bolted" solution.

However, it has huge risk because as soon as the word "gender" gets any other word stuck onto it, we're back to a muddle e.g. the protected characteristic of "gender reassignment" or the concept of an internal soul that is gender-aligned ("gender identity").

There's no perfect answer but my personal preference is to bring back the simplicity of the word sex in law and leave "gender" to the genderists. I appreciate it's not a great solution for any feminists who want to talk about the social construct of gender in society but I also think that discussion has been hijacked to a point where it's only clear if people talk about sex-based stereotypes instead of "gender stereotypes" etc. But perhaps that's easy for me to say, given I'm not on the frontline of feminism.

Hope you make a complaint to them. If anything female should come first as the majority (51%) of us are indeed female.

Stop thinking, wims!

Good point!

Here's Harry Enfield's timely reminder that our brains won't cope with that 🙃

So if they put 'Female' first, randomly, some respondents will say they are female just because it's the first answer??

There's overthinking, there's underthinking, and there's just plain thinking

Presumably so.

Easily done, right? You wake up pretty sure you know yourself and before you realise it, you've declared yourself agender, because it was first on the list of the 72 genders.

Handily, being agender effectively means the same thing as "I don't believe I have a gender identity".... so.... it turns out you do have a gender. You have an agender gender.

After wondering for just a few seconds how that might work, you sit back with relief at how simple it all is in the end. All you needed to do was not overthink this, tick the first option and you're sorted.

(Here's your flag ⬇️)

Presumably they think that basement dwellers are more likely to order pizza than women?
Dominoes are terrible pizzas anyway.

Good on you for trying and the changes that were made, despite not hearing back on your main request. It’s hard to speak out. I wish I could. It’s mad that this exclusion of many employees is under the guise of being inclusive.

@JRorBobby I get annoyed when it's always male first and then female. So that would REALLY piss me off!

"Ladies and gentlemen."

I did something similar at work last week.

I looked at the settings on one of the systems that we use to see what info they had about me.
It correctly had my sex as female and the gender identity field was blank. I decided to fill it in and chose "prefer to self describe." I was then able to type into the preferred pronouns box so put "I don't have a gender identity. Please use sex based pronouns."

I don't know if anyone will notice but it gave me a bit of quiet satisfaction.

Complain!!

https://www.dominos.co.uk/contact/form

I just completed a survey from my GP which only had the options:
Male
Female
Gender neutral.

I used the free text box to tell them that I thought it was very concerning that actual qualified medical professionals thought they were treating patients who weren't male or female.