there has been a community to do this on LiveJournal (of which I am a member) for a long time called <lj user=gender_petition>. I'm REALLY surprised it hasn't happened yet, but my view may be skewed based on my own friends list. Gender Petition members display the gender petition blogsticker on their userinfo pages and abstain from selecting a gender. --kathy -- Katherine Mancuso, PhD student Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts S415 Callaway Center Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 katherine.mancuso@emory.edu AAA 2005 Media/Technology sessions: http://wiki.oxus.net/wiki/AAA2005 Anthropologists and labor unions allied: http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com Orphans V: Science, Industry, Education: http://www.sc.edu/filmsymposium Social software linkage: http://del.icio.us/museumfreak My weblog: http://museumfreak.livejournal.com "My life is not a quota or an action to affirm an idea of equality. My life is my life." ~Jamaica Kincaid "she's nothing more than fiction / she dreams in digital / compose your dreams / and don't be afraid to expose yourself." ~Orgy