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I learned in Speech & Debate class that it's a lot easier to attack arguments if you throw numbers at the other person's face. Let's try it...

- There are 6 billion people in the world; roughly 3 billion of them are male, and roughly 3 billion of them are female. Gender is NOT personal... in fact, it'd be more annoying if people mistook you for a he-she than the opposite sex [And yes, I did just say that word].

- Location, I wouldn't be too picky about. It depends, really, on how comfortable they are with the crowd they're talking to. Now if they say something like, "I live in Arizona," well... so do about 6,338,755 [That's six MILLION, three-hundred thirty-eight THOUSAND, seven-hundred fifty-five] other people. It shouldn't be a problem unless they get too specific.

Two to begin with. See if you can counter them. Onward!!



Yes, that seems to be the most frequent point in the Rant Box. But if you take a brief census, you'll find a greater majority of the members acquire an average age that range well into the late teens. Here's where most logic fails: BaltoSource is not a kid-friendly site, but a kid-oriented site. It may not be that people are giving away information that's private; you might just be a little oversensitive.

Perspective, really.

The way some people butcher the English language is annoying. In the case of your topic sentence, the word 'annoying' modifies 'act', not 'people'. Therefore, the correct form of the verb 'to be' is 'is', not 'are'.


And yes, I agree with Rexy. The issue of your gender is hardly a "personal" question. The issue of where you live can be either personal or not, depending on the amount of information you'd like to give out.