You kinda missed the point of the post. Nothing they said implied that the history books didn't contain monstrosities, just that the books didn't prepare them for living life while monstrosities occur.
Sure, maybe you don't need to put your sexual identity in a post asking for help configuring nginx, but in an introductory post where you're explicitly describing yourself... Yeah, I think you should be allowed to mention your sexuality.
What's that thing where you construct a mental version of someone that takes on a life of its own inside your head? I'd be scared of accidentally creating one of Trump.
Ironic that one of the biggest complaints about AI these days is that it's stealing from artists, and the OP couldn't even follow the CC-BY-NC license that xkcd is released under...
Stronger and wiser, having communed with the GURU