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Not really fight; it was just weird that of all the fields that could be mandatory they chose gender.

I think a possible explanation for this is that they use gender-specific pronouns in other parts of the site: "he said this...", "she +1'd this...", etc.

So, I think they needed to re-word more than just the profile section with gender-neutral pronouns. I don't think this is a trivial task, and maybe that's why it will take until the end of the week.

Can you point me at a specific place they use gender-specific pronouns? I've been looking for them since day one and I don't remember seeing any anywhere on G+. Is it only a non-English thing, or is it some strange situation I've not seen yet, or have I just missed something obvious?

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