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Gender and Technology
Image Credit:http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=234
by Meitar Moscovitzmaymay.net
Sex 1.0
Source: FetLife.comSource: Facebook.com
sex20con.com
Sex 1.0
Source: FetLife.comSource: Facebook.com
sex20con.com
(So last millennium.)
Cybersex triggered a sexual renaissance
Second Life The Sims
Cybersex triggered a sexual renaissance
Second Life The Sims
My hawt partner and I as recreated by our friend Tyler.
(I don’t know these people.)
Technology can define “normal”
Technology can define “normal”
http://www.kreativekorp.com/miscpages/gender/gender.pl
Yay genderform!
http://www.kreativekorp.com/miscpages/gender/gender.pl
Yay genderform!
925 options = 2.8363×10278 combinations
283,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000…
925 options = 2.8363×10278 combinations
ISO 5218 (options are mutually exclusive)• 0 = not known• 1 = male• 2 = female• 9 = not applicable
Have you tried not being a mutant?
http://www.okcupid.com/signup
Dude, where’s my gender?
From Wikipedia’s community guidelines discussing appropriate terminology for articles:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sexology_and_Sexuality/Terminology
Sex != Sexuality
Gender != Sex
“The question was, and is, who speaks, and when, and for whom, and why.” - Neil Bartlett (1988)
From Wikipedia’s community guidelines discussing appropriate terminology for articles:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sexology_and_Sexuality/Terminology
Sex != Sexuality
Gender != Sex
`males`- `id`- `forename`- `surname`- `birthdate`- `wife_id` (foreign key references column `females`.`id`, may be NULL if male is unmarried)
`females`- `id`- `forename`- `surname`- `birthdate`
Sam Hughes’s “Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective”http://qntm.org/?gay
How to design a sexist marriage database
Which one’s the wife? Does not compute!
“[H]omosexual marriages create repulsive integrity problems in their heads. … How sad.”
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`humans`- `id`- `forename`- `surname`- `birthdate`
`binary_marriages`- `id`- `partner_1_id` (foreign key references column `humans`.`id`)- `partner_2_id` (foreign key references column `humans`.`id`)- `marriage_date`- `divorce_date` (NULL if still married)
How to design a robust marriage database
Sam Hughes’s “Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective”http://qntm.org/?gay
(Actually, this is illegal in most jurisdictions today.)
`humans`- `id`- `forename`- `surname`- `birthdate`
`binary_marriages`- `id`- `partner_1_id` (foreign key references column `humans`.`id`)- `partner_2_id` (foreign key references column `humans`.`id`)- `marriage_date`- `divorce_date` (NULL if still married)
How to design a robust marriage database
Sam Hughes’s “Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective”http://qntm.org/?gay
Image Credit: http://www.wandco.com/projects/
Gender binaries are limiting everyone
Image Credit:http://katebornstein.typepad.com/kate_bornsteins_blog/2008/11/sign-of-the-tra.html
Behavior is not defined by anatomy
Do (it) good.
“Vanilla rules apply.”
Do (it) good.
• What are you really asking for?
• How are you asking for it?
• Why are you asking for it?
“Vanilla rules apply.”
How do we answer this?
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Image Credit:http://www.flickr.com/photos/sakeme/3088275601/
What are you really after?
“be liberal in what you accept”– Postel’s Law
(RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol)
“there’s gonna be a lot more guys with makeup during this millennium”
– Eddie Izzard(guy in makeup)
“be liberal in what you accept”– Postel’s Law
(RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol)