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pavel_lishin
So what does it substitute for various races? And what's the "male" leet-speak equivalent?
zenazn
Facebook translations are crowdsourced. Doesn't excuse this particular case, but don't assume it was anything malicious on Facebook's part.
cheald
This is the correct answer. Someone accepted the translation without thinking too much about it, but it's almost certain that it wasn't a Facebook employee who decided on that "translation".
walrus
They seem to have changed it already. It's "F3m413" for female and "Male" for male now.
freehunter
So you switch to a novelty translation yet have no sense of humor?

Granted it's in bad taste, but... it's fucking 1337 speak.