Make `internet.avatar()` sex or gender aware

[FrenchMajesty]

Clear and concise description of the problem

I am using Faker to generate fake user profiles. I really appreciate the fact that I can give it a sex attribute to the person.firstName() so that it would give me feminine or masculine name.

However, one issue I have is I got a user who's name is John Franken but the avatar that was attached to this person is a young blonde lol. There isn't a way to make a wholistic "fake profile" without a semi-consistent image-to-name connection.

Suggested solution

Pass in sex an an argument to the avatar() method.

I understand some images can fit anything, but there are some obvious candidates as well. (see: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/Qmd3W5DuhgHirLHGVixi6V76LhCkZUz6pnFt5AJBiyvHye/avatar/1183.jpg)

• If the picture contains both a male and a female, then it can classified as both.
• If the picture is not a person (cat, drawing, etc...) it can be classified as both

Alternative

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[matthewmayer]

see also discussion at https://github.com/faker-js/faker/issues/465

[AaronNGray]

It would been good to have both faker.person.sex() and also faker.person.gender() to allow for fluid genders, which can randomly be mapped to sex or we have four types which can be mapped to sex via a function..

faker.person.genderToSex(gender:string):string

or introduce real types rather than enumerated types ?

faker.person.genderToSex(g:gender):sex

and for faker.person.firstName(sex:string) to take a string rather than a typed object ??? Why theres typed objects were introduced instead of strings is very odd as it requires :-

    const gender = faker.person.sex();
    const firstName = faker.person.firstName(gender == "male" ? "male" : "female");

Then to have a faker.person.avatar(sex:string) too.

[matthewmayer]

Bear in mind locales (we want "male" and "female" in different languages) and the need for this to work easily when using vanilla JavaScript as well as typescript.

[AaronNGray]

Gender pronouns would be too.

[matthewmayer]

We do have an open issue for pronouns, if that interests you you can upvote https://github.com/faker-js/faker/issues/1248

[AaronNGray]

Gender from faker.person.gender() maybe a string with a colon "male:female" being sex:birth_sex maybe ?

[ST-DDT]

faker.person.firstName(sex:string) to take a string rather than a typed object ??? Why theres typed objects were introduced instead of strings is very odd as it requires :-

    const gender = faker.person.sex();
    const firstName = faker.person.firstName(gender == "male" ? "male" : "female");

The code you are showing only works for English. For that reason we have introduced a method faker.person.sexType() that returns a value that will always work for that and is typed accordingly.