Gender Wars and Social Inequality

I believe that we should do away with even asking about gender/race on forms that simply do not require them or are relevant in any way. Making these forms and these menus only encourages the separation and inequality becuase we are DIVIDING the data based on what the person is... not what they say. Having studies with no gender or race bias will force the surveyors to take the data and make tables and draw conclusions based on response, not outside factors.

I have never really thought about race, gender inequality, or sexual orientation on Twitter. Those are all relevant issues, but I guess I never noticed because I retweet something based off whether I find it funny or interesting. When I'm filling out forms, I do sometimes feel I'm being pushed to choose something. I'm black and white and sometimes there is not an option for mixed race, so I choose African American. I feel like the world is becoming a lot more racially mixed so forms should offer a mixed race option or allow you to fill in more than one bubble. It does become difficult with gender and sexual orientation because these forms are catered to straight females and males, and this doesn't leave much room for deviation from the "social norm". Hopefully as time progresses, these forms will become more advanced because they are very outdated for today's society.

After reading this article it makes me think about this a lot more. As i am a Hispanic, I never really have noticed the race thing when filling out surveys or applications. Though I think your right that they need to provide more option on the drop down menus or maybe even have a fill in the blank area when there could be more options than what they provide us with.

         Know with the fact about retweeting and quote tweeting, I don’t really think to much into who I am retweeting I mean if it’s a good tweet I am going to retweet it. So gender equality and twitter aren’t as big of a deal as the drop down menus on surveys and applications.

As gender inequality remains a prevalent issue, I think it's essential that we all are more knowledgable about how these topics apply to certain individuals. I recently touched on this in my advertising group project. We were giving out a survey for some of our primary research, which involved learning the demographics of our participants. Of course, we had a gender box and originally it said something along the lines of "Which gender do you associate with?" After editing the survey, we realized this could be controversial as we may need to add a transgender section etc. I thought this post was interesting because I think it's important for society to be open to diversity, rather than classifying unique individuals with societal norms. Leaving open-ended drop boxes where users could enter their own information that may be unique would be beneficial. Also, I make sure when it comes to social media to be aware of these topics as it affects more users in our network than we may realize. Staying open and giving users opportunities to add their own information is smarter than the traditional "check what applies to you" type of surveys on social media.

When I am writing and retweeting posts, I don't think about gender inequality, race or sexual orientation. It's because I don't care about those things unless that's the topic of conversation. The only time any of those things would into my head is when I'm filling out some soft of form. I'm a single black male, so I fit that box neatly. However, I know plenty of people that probably have to choose how they are to be indentified on forms with limited options. Although I don't experience it, I wouldn't want to have to choose among multiple choices in which I consider myself.

As part of my job I was asked to deliver a website that could track the demographics of our users.  While creating this we had to make a decision about which categories to include.  Since I work for MSU we complied with the U.S. Department of Education standards for “maintaining, collecting, and presenting federal data on race and ethnicity”.  Defined in 1997 and reissued in 2007, it may seem outdated but it does give us a baseline to work from.  For our purposes, if we were to leave too many open ended comment boxes, we would never be able to aggregate the data into usable information.  I do think that changes need to be made to allow for further distinctions as our population continues to diversify, but I also think there need to be parameters in place to make sense of the data.  The whole reason for collecting the information is to use it.

After taking a few courses on "Gender" at MSU, I have definitely been more aware about not only gender, but the inequalities that follow. Every time I check the female and caucasion box no an application, I wonder why does this even matter? Obviously after reading my resume, the employer should know if I have the right skills and experience for the job. My race and gender should not even be a factor in the decision making process. 

I am not surprised about your retweet findings. I am interested to see my Twee-Q results. I believe that your web forms idea would work. This is 2014 and I believe that since society has changed drastically, the choices in those forms need to be updated as well. Gay people and transgender people are at a disadvantage because of these narrow options. Other is not a cateogry for a human being, it is something you check when there are no other options. Like I stated above web forms need a makeover to fit the needs of today's society. It's time that we put aside our differences and realize that everyone is equal. Also, let the best person get the job; don't let race or gender persuade your decision. 

I had never considered this as an issue because I have always fit into a defined category. I'm appreciative of the opportunity to consider how other people might face an issue with this. As a society we are so inclined to cluster everyone into a group and define what we are that I think it detracts from the humanity of a person. The problem lies with me, like so many others, not recognizing that we are potentially making someone uncomfortable by forcing them to self-define. We use so much of this information to profile and reach our target groups, but I wonder at what point we can make it more inclusive.

When I’m retweeting or filling out forms gender honestly never comes to mind, nor does race or sexual orientation, because I don’t feel like it should. None of these demographics would be a factor to me when applying somewhere, or deciding whether to share something someone else has posted.

As far as the whole “fill in the blank” category idea, I do think this would be affective. There are so many different types of people that I find it difficult for us to only have like 7 boxes to choose from when describing ourselves. For example the race boxes, what if you are mixed with 4 different things? I’m sure you would want to list them, not just choose “other.” People shouldn’t have to feel discriminated against when having to put down who they are. Having the option of being able to fill in however you label yourself I believe is a great idea.

When it comes to this day and age, I don't find myself picking at all the small things like race or sexual orientation. That being said, I did try the "Twee-Q" test and found I scored a zero. I did not realize I never retweeted females and now will make the cognitive descion to do that more, but it was still surprising none the less. I don't view myself as sexist, but my twitter account would certainly beg to differ.

I honestly fill out this information so mindlessly, it doesn't always cross my mind that others deal the dilema and have to resort to other. I think some people get offended that they have to fill out personal information. But if we don't give more options on surveys, we really are not getting  that accurate or measurements. I think that starting to include more options for sexual orientation or race on both forms and on social media should be improved and would be a great eye opener for many.

I would have to agree that these issues often do enter my mind when filling out this type of information. I think the idea you gave about having a place to type in whatever your want or however you “label yourself” would be the best option.

The fact that someone would base their decision on a 'retweet' or 'favorite' just because that person is gay or straight is down right stupid in my opinion. An idea is an idea, no matter who it comes from. If you relate to what another person says, then it should not matter what their sexual orientation is. For example, Michael Sam, the gay football play for Missouri that just came about about a week and a half ago, his whole team new almost a year in advance in regarding to everyoen elses knowledge on the topic. His team did not care, they knew he was an asset on the field and could get his job done. Whether or not they agreed with his sexual orientation did not stand in the way with fact that he was one of the best college football players of last year. Regardless to someones sexual orientation, their ideas should be taken as anyone elses are, without a grain of salt. 

This is something I have learned a lot in my race and gender classes.  Being a white male is considered to be superior to all other human beings. This is frustrating for me being a white female because women are constantly considered to be less important than males. However, whenever I fill out my information, I always realize that the race 'white' is always there, so I have never had the feeling of worrying about filling out the correct race. I think that these forms should give the ability for people to write in their own option, rather than having to choose which option best fits them.

I feel a little differently than a lot of people posting to this article just because I generally don't think it offends people that much about the drop box options, nor should it. As a hispanic and also caucasian female I feel that websites are trying to get insight on who their consumers are or be able to breakdown who their target audience, sometimes I feel our generation and society in general today is way to sensitive when it comes to gender and race issues. Technology for many is still not up to date, and neither are dropbox options, it's always just been easy to click one of the above and not ellaborate to deeply onto it. I kind of feel like society gets to sensitive and always has to place their opinion on race and sexuality when I feel that some of those opinions are very personal and should be private. If i'm having "complicated" relationship status then it's really none of the websites business to share that with, it's much easier to just click single or other than to ellaborate on "complicated." I guess I just feel that our options for race, gender, and relationship status have always been pretty general, and when you get down to the nitty gritty it seems difficult to try and make that option available for websites who are not as tech savvy, they are not trying to discriminate they are just not completely up to date with social trends. 

Personally, I don't really care about to answer discriminated question such as gender, demographical issue, ethnicity etc.. I'm very straight-forward : male, Asian. Some people may think it is awkward but I think those question are quite necessary because the U.S. is mixed country which means different background cultural experience could make bias answer. Therefore, ethnicity questions could help to understand more accurately. However, if there are only few options to choose, it could be offended. So, it is important to show up plenty options.

Interesting post! I agree that they should have "fill in the blank" category for the surveys more. Yes, it might be so broad to organize every single different types of people, but if that really helps the survey, then it's their job to analyze more accurately for detail informations. The fact that your race, gender, homosexual is something dont change and survey might need to view in different points of views. People shouldn't feel that they are being discriminated when they are asked to select who they are.

I found this article very interestsing because I always wonder if i am being discriminated against based on my gender/ethinicity/sexuality. When certain online web resources ask me these demographic type of questions I always wonder how they are using this inforamtion about me. I always feel that I will be judged by the way that I fill out forms requesting this information. I also find the twitter retweet site interesting becasue I know that I might retweet one gender over the other. I feel that I retweet those in my own gender more becasue I better relate to their issues.

From the view of marketing, if a company which target its customer based on the results presented by Google, it definitely want it as specific as it could be. So more options for personal profile can help companies segment its customers more accurately. While it seems like a prefect evolution, potential race, gender or other issue can cause controversy. In this case, it need to be consider twice until we have a conclusion.

I think it would be great to start including more "fill in the blank" options for race and gender and less multiple choice. These categories are much less narrowly defined as they once were and we should be adapting to the changing times by accounting for such differences. Truthfully, I don't even see why it is necessary to ask for race on certain forms- many people identify more with their nationality than their race, and would probably be less hesitant to report it. I'm wondering why it is that people retweet males more often- is this just a coincidence or does it allude to something deeper?

I really enjoyed to read this article and I'm kinda wonder how I don't get this kind of interesting news or storeis from media or website that I've used.

Can you tell me how to achieve these interesting and useful news?

When considering twitter and analyzing if you are equally tweeting each gender, there are several factors that need to be taken into consideration before worrying about one's self being sexist. Factors such as: Who do you follow? As far as I know, men and women aren't normally interested in exactly the same content. An interest in sports for example (a somewhat stereotypical example maybe but, probaby fairly accurate) may lead one to retweet more male posts. This may be due to a larger portion of those who tweet about sports are men. I am not saying that women don't or should not tweet about sports however. I am just pointing out an example of why retweets may be skewed towards a certain gender if the retweeter is interested in content favored by one gender or another.

I think the gender topic is really a crucial issue in any time period.

People, fight for years to earn equality for different genders.

lets keep fight for it!

I agree that it is very unfair and that there should be more options for those people who do now know what to put in those spaces. I really do not think about inequality while filling out forms or retweeting because at the time I really don’t realize it. But now that it is brought to my attention I am going to think about it more because it does run through others heads while doing those things. What if I were in that position? I would want people to think about me while doing so. I really do feel that there should be a space for them to give their own responses in instances like those. It is only fair. 

I agree that there should be more options for gender and race while filling out forms and that drop down boxes don't really work anymore. People should be able to mark who they really are. It is much better for businesses to receive more accurate data as well, because right now they probably don't get the results they are looking for since responses are so limited. About the retweeting, I don't think about the gender of people I am retweeting. I'm sure some of this does have to do with equality, but other factors could influence these statistics as well. For example, you mentioned that males RT more males and females are usually more equal or RTing more females. I know that I RT my roommates and close friends a lot when we are together, who are mostly female, and this may influence my statistic. Also, guys may tweet information that more guys relate to and girls may just tweet information that more girls relate to (ex: shows, sports, celebrities, news, etc...) 

More often than not I feel like the thought of inequality doesn't come to mind but it definitely will now!  I completely agree that we should have other options than just what's a part of the norm.  Not everyone is just cookie cutter 'white' or 'black' anymore.  Everyone is a little bit different than everyone else and we should be able to identify as such if we feel the need to.  This blog post definitely brought some new light to how I look at these forms that we are all constantly filling out without knowing how it segregates us.

I think this is a great idea.  I dont think it makes our nation look good, in my opinion.  It makses us look racist, when we are supposed to be a natione of all people a "melting pot".  This sllows people to put what their exact answer is instead of a rough guess.  This will be a start to a growing govenrment movement for all of these questions, hopefully.  I hope this will m ake all american feel more american in some way.

I typically never think when filling out forms why they ask the questions about my race or sex, I just answer them typically because I am a white female. This has never affected me, but when reading this article I found how it really might affect others. Why do those questions need to be answered always, does it mean their answers or view aren't right? I never have tought about these issues until now. Its a common issue we should be addressing and learning about and trying to fix, because inequality is still happening. 

I do not think that I have thought about gender, sexual orientation, and race inequality when I am filling out forms. I think that this does not come accross as a big deal to me because I am a white, straight, female. I have always been part of the majority so I don't ever think about being a minority. I feel like we do not think about these issues as much as we should. Equality is very important and should be a thought that is on everyones mind. Since social media is becoming our main form of communication, i think that it is important to make more options online for people to choose from so they do not feel left out.

When I am crafting my social media posts, I do tend to pay attention to the tone of the gender I am speaking in. A lot of the times I go back and edit my tweets so they do not sound too "girly" or "princess-y". I tweet about things that I am doing and thoughts that cross my - which happen to be girly things, like painting my nails, going to work out and going out with my friends. I don't want to create a negative image for myself by tweeting things that may come off as prissy.

If I am tweeting about sports or something more masuline/gender neutral, I always make sure I get my facts right so that boys don't yell at me and think that girls do not understand sports.

I think this is OK because social media is where you have control about how people percieve you. So, it is a good think to think about how you are coming across from gender, race and political standpoints.

No, I don't consider gender inequality when I retweet others. I guess I never really consider it at all. I think in a way that is one of the really special things about the majority of my generation. Of course I wasn't aware of retweeting males or females more than the other, it would never be an issue to me because I view them equally, meaning I would never take the time to consider if there was a weight to those actions. In all honesty, I hope to live in a world where we don't have to analyze these kinds of things because we just know they don't matter. 

Since I easily fit into the drop down menus (Caucasian, married, female) I have never really analyzed what is missing from them, until now. Dave you really opened my eyes to how even in a simple form we are showing lack of equality among the varying groups of people.  I was curious as to how I would rate on twee-q. I know I follow a good combination of male and female, but had no clue what my retweeting habits were.  I’m ashamed to say that I scored terrible! I retweet 100% men! Sure I follow a lot of athletes on twitter, but to not retweet a single person of my own sex, wow! With the general trend being that men are retweeted more often than women, would it be most profitable to have a man be the face of your business twitter account? Even if it was really a women running it. Just something to think about.

As a white, straight female, race and sexual orientation inequality has never really entered my head when filling out forms or profiles or what not.  I never have really thought about it before until the recent news about Facebook adding different sexual orientation and different gender options for building a profile which is a really progressive, thoughtful and necessary move.  Gender inequality is something I frequently think about and I think it is especially important for people to start recognizing these sorts of trends on Twitter and other sites, however I don't think of it often when I am using social media but rather when I see gender inequality in aspects of social media.  

As wrong as something like gender inequality and sexual orientation are, and espeically in today's society, there is unfortunately zero doubt that it they are prevelant in everyone's daily life.  Whether it be the mother on the television who accepts and embraces gender roles to enovke a laugh from the audience, or a group of teens making fun of someone who has different interests at school, these two types of discrimination do not get the attention they deserve.  This article perfectly puts this idea into perspective.  Most likely, nobody spends more than two seconds thinking about the gender/ethnicity options avaiable on the internet, but it is something that has needed to change for years.  In our everchanging society, we need to not only accept all genders, sexual orientations, etc, but most also accomodate to them as we would ourselves, and embrace them in everyday community.  

When I post on Facebook or Instagram, I do not have any specific gender or sexual orientation in mind, nor do I repost others based on any of those characteristics.  Since I repost a lot of sports material and more "manly" subjects, I'm sure that I repost more men then female.  This is only because I am interested in "male" dominated topics though, and that's just how it works out.  I'm sure it is same for many females at well.  But at the end of the day I would have no problem breaking typically society gender roles, as I post and repost based on the topic of the information, not where it comes from.

None of this has even occured to me before today. Aside from the social media aspect, I think you did a good job of bringing up the topic of drop down menus to accurately identify who the website is communicating with. As a straight white male, I never saw this as an issue because it has never been presented to me in a way where I would find it problematic. A combination drop down menu or box is a great idea because if someone was to enter what they wanted to manually, the website might be slow or might have trouble picking up on the manual info. 

With respect to social media, gender equality/inequality doesn't enter my mind when I am communicating with others. If I like someones post, I'll like it, favorite, or retweet it (it depends what form of social media I'm using). I have to wonder about accounts that could go either way with respect to gender when the account fills out their information. For example, I follow CNN Breaking news. If I were to retweet their account, how would Twee-Q view that? How are we suppoased to know if they are considered a male/female/straight/gay? Personally, I favorite and retweet ESPN quite a bit. At first thought, you would think that would be more of a male account, but would that be discriminating towards women who like sports? What you present here is very interesting, and I'll certainly be more conscious of this topic on social media moving forward.

Since I am a white, straight female I never wonder about what other people feel like that don't fall into the immediate categories. I do however, feel unimportant when I am checking boxes for this or that online and fall into the "other" category. I'm sitting there thinking "don't you care?" I always wonder why even bother asking things like that online when you have no idea what "other" actually means. 

When it comes to gender equality and retweeting, I don't give it any thought at all. I follow accounts more focused on women like womenshumor or whitegirlproblems just for fun, but I never thought about following male targeted accounts because I have no interest in them. When I retweet something I do so if it pertains to me personally or if I find it funny or useful.

Being the social media manager for Media Sandbox at MSU, I have to take a deeper look into things that I'm posting to make sure that I don't target a female audience. I must admit it is difficult. When I come across something that I find "so cute" I really have to think twice about posting because Media Sandbox isn't just for girls. I've had to withhold some content that would have been specifically entertaining to females. When I search the web for professional posting, I am aware of gender equality for those reasons.

Nobdy likes being called out on their own discrimiantory behavior, but I'm glad you made this post. Cultural insesitivity is basically the norm for all social media platforms, especially so on Twitter. You can check this link and see some examples collected by a blog that tracks Asian-American appearances in the media of racist tweets about Asian people sent mostly by English speakers. I'm Asian so this is something I follow for my own personal reasons, and I don't think that just because most people I know and am friends with don't treat me even remotely like this, I do get weird racial comments from strangers when I go out in East Lansing from time to time and I don't think I should have to ignore these things just because they are uncomfrtable to talk about. 

EDIT: I went through a lot of these comments and there are lots of people who are saying "they don't get" why someone in a minority category would feel a certain way. That is part of the problem for why these problems exist, so if you don't know you should reach out to someone in one of those communities and they may be able to help you understand, so you CAN get where they're coming from.

No. I have never thought about gender inequality, sexual orientation, or race while filling out these types of forms. But one thing that I don’t really understand is, if people who are Homosexual are so concerned with being treated the same as straight people, why is it that there has to be a box that says “gay” or having the option of saying “Gay-Married.” If I were married to a woman I would not feel the need to fill in “Straight-Married”. This is just unnecessary because if you are happily married or in a relationship it shouldn’t matter to others if you are gay or not. As for the people in the middle who say it is “complicated” there should not be an option like that. I say this because if you are not married and you are not in a relationship, then you are single.As for racial inequality I feel that there needs to be the option if you select other to fill in a text box with what ever you choose. Allowing for specificity without having 150 drop down options.

As a straight white person it's easy for me to say that Web forms requesting personal information seem irrelevant. I am as pro-equal rights as they come, but at the same time it's hard for me to understand why people get upset about form options, or lack-there-of. As long as you know who you are, I feel it is unnecessary to make a political statement when you could just check a different box and move along. But that is just my personal opinion, and I lead a pretty serious "who cares" lifestyle. As far as finding a solution, I agree that all of these issues could be solved with fill-in-the-blank response areas. This would definitely eliminate any confusion that people of mixed races or different sexual orienations may experience.

Inequality rarely crosses my mind when using social media. If I think something is funny, I'll repost or retweet it, regardless of the gender or race of the original poster. I find the "women aren't funny" debate idiotic and utterly boring. It's an opinion that people are obviously welcome to have, I just think everyone on the Internet would definitely benefit from the idea of "live and let live." On that note, I also think the act of measuring exactly how "equal" you are is unneccessary and, frankly, part of the problem.

For me, on Twitter, I retweet tweets that I think are funny and interesting. I don’t really base which tweets I retweet off of gender – but I do follow a lot of male comedians if that says anything! As far as my interests go, I definitely follow more women, just because I like to keep up on fitness and health blogs, and that’s more relatable for me when it’s from a women’s perspective. 

As far as the drop box issue, I have never been personally offended, but I know people that have. The U.S. is filled with people of all different races and ethnicities, so I can see how one could get offended if they’re race wasn’t listed as an option.  However I’ll admit that I do get a little annoyed when I have to fill out all of the race and ethnicity questions at the end of a job application. I often find myself asking, “why does it matter?” but check the box anyway. I would love to see results or studies that show how much that information is really looked at.

I think being a minority when it comes to race and gender, and also being socially aware its hard not to think of gender or race inequality on not only social media but when doing other things also. The internet has been a great platform for minorities to get their voices heard however it also enables people to be anymous and that can be abused. So being on sites likes twitter its so easy to see views that are a bit oppresive. I think that being aware of inequalities should always be in the back of someones mind no matter if they are on the internet or not. Being socially aware is never a bad thing.

No, I don't think gender inequality has ever come up when I am filling out forms. Sexual orientation and race hasn't either. Maybe because I am a straight white person. There is always a box for me to check because I am part of the majority. However, I think it should be on our minds more than it is. I feel like it should be an issue that not just the minority has to think about. I think equality for everyone is important and I think it is important for individuals who identify with more than one thing to be able to represent that. Something that makes our culture great is the diversity and I think there should be more options and more equality when it comes to social media as well.

While using social media or filling out forms gender inequality rarely enters my head and i guess that would be because it is easy for me to click or submit the right check off box of my gender or race. I never really thought how difficult it would be for someone who is a combination of races or who is neither male or female. Looking at the broad spectrum of things i realize how difficult it could be for a person who doesn't have an easy box to check and how hard it could be for someone to click the "other" box and type what they wish people knew. There should be an easier way for people to identify themselves and when that happens i think those people will be at peace a little more knowing that they are recognized.

I can honestly say I have never paid much attention to whether or not I retweet more males or females. When using social media sites, I don't know that gender inequality ever enters my head. The same goes for race and sexual orientation. I use social media at a very casual level, and because of this, I don't give these issues much thought. For me personally, I have never struggled filling out forms. I will say however, that in the past when I have filled out forms I have paid attention to some of these inequality issues. I have always wondered why they don't let you just write in what you would like to be identified as! I think that would be a great solution to the drop down boxes that have very limited options.  

I don’t know why it is important to check retweeting from gender. I never thought about retweeting based on gender. I guess gender is not an important factor of retweet. But the contents matter. I think it is kind of overthinking about gender issues in social media. Speaking of filling out forms, it would be nice to involve various options for minority. Although the directors of filling out forms didn’t have to make issues about political or rights reasons, it would be better to fix it if someone feels offended.

Being a white female I do not personally feel the burden of most of the internets racial inequality. However I do feel the gender inequality. Being a senior I am starting to fill out job applications and in most applications the company wants you to identify with a gender and race. Whenever I fill these out I think to myself about how many different types of people there are in the world today. We all identify in very different ways and having just a couple choices to put down on a job applications is frivolus to me. I do not think the comapny needs to know if a person identify as Afican American or White or male of female for that matter. Also while I have been applying for jobs I have been thinking more and more about my social media presence. After reading this post I realized the gender differences when it comes to social media. If I am a woman applying for a job and a recruiter looks at my facebook page and sees multiple picture of me and my friends with a bunch of beers they may think that is bad and I have a drinking problem. On the other hand if they saw a man and his friends sitting around with a bunch of beers they probably wouldn't think anything of it and write it off as a liesurely passtime. This goes for many other types of actions on social media. The amount of things you share with others will not only be judged by the content but also by your gender and how you identify. 

Personally when I am writing my posts on Social Media, retweeting others or filling out forms, gender inequality doesn't seem to enter my head. I mean there is a possibility that if I start to really put a lot of thought or over think something that it is a possibility that the inequality may come into play. But for the most part I would have to say that when I am writing on Facebook, Twitter or any other social media site, I am truly just speaking from the heart and the people that I am writing to I am mostly friends with and dont feel that I think to much about gender inequality because what I am posting doesn't really cross the line of gender or sexual orientation. 

By the way I tried out the Twee-Q tool and found out that I had a score of 1.6. Retweeting 86% men and 14% women. I was quite schocked with this statistic, but at the same time it is understandable, because most of my retweets have to do with either sports or some funny movie quote. 

I don't believe I do think about these topics while I use social media. I’ve never really payed attention if I’m retweeting more men then women or if I like and or commit on females Facebook over mens. Im not sure if any us actually mean to if we do. I think its just subconscious, something that we cant control. However when it comes to filling out forms, I do believe that it needs to be more race friendly. Having the luxury of being white I don’t really deal with any problems but i do know of friends who are mixed race. I can understand how it could frustrating trying to decided which to pick. I liked the idea of being able to wright what you want for certain questions that can be difficult to answer. Its really time that we start working on that.