CA: The only bugaboo I have is that all the themes for 2.1 kind of suck, and no one's updated Smarty yet :/ I suppose we'll have to just deal with the yucky generic theme until I can wrap my head around what the differences are.
Making people think about how their use of gender-related descriptors to refer to concepts that are gender neutral highlights that gender bias, and is thus a first step to their recognition that they're arbitrarily assigning traits to genders and they shouldn't.
No, the best way to go about things is to encourage people to be more comfortable with questioning their gender and providing a spectrum of answers, not to insist on none.
I can assign gender to anything. I often do. And I assign gendered descriptors to myself, often to things that are not associated with my sex.
Making people think about how their use of gender-related descriptors to refer to concepts that are gender neutral highlights that gender bias, and is thus a first step to their recognition that they're arbitrarily assigning traits to genders and they shouldn't.
No, the best way to go about things is to encourage people to be more comfortable with questioning their gender and providing a spectrum of answers, not to insist on none.
I can assign gender to anything. I often do. And I assign gendered descriptors to myself, often to things that are not associated with my sex.
That's just fine if you're doing it privately or in your own creative work.
But public speech has an effect on others, and using a gendered descriptor in place of (what to oneself is) an equivalent gender-neutral term has several drawbacks: 1. other people may not necessarily associate the same trait with that gender, leading to possible confusion. 2. introducing gender into the message can introduce additional meaning, which can complicate the communication and possibly distract the audience toward irrelevant thoughts. (unless this is one's secret objective.) 3. it associates one more time that trait with that gender when the trait is really gender-neutral, which contributes to the acceptability of biases and stereotypes when dealing with actual people.
That's just fine if you're doing it privately or in your own creative work.
But public speech has an effect on others, and using a gendered descriptor in place of (what to oneself is) an equivalent gender-neutral term has several drawbacks: 1. other people may not necessarily associate the same trait with that gender, leading to possible confusion. 2. introducing gender into the message can introduce additional meaning, which can complicate the communication and possibly distract the audience toward irrelevant thoughts. (unless this is one's secret objective.) 3. it associates one more time that trait with that gender when the trait is really gender-neutral, which contributes to the acceptability of biases and stereotypes when dealing with actual people.
You seem to be really really hung up on the idea of stereotypes. Like, can't you just trust people to understand what you mean? Are they really so stupid?
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That's just fine if you're doing it privately or in your own creative work.
But public speech has an effect on others, and using a gendered descriptor in place of (what to oneself is) an equivalent gender-neutral term has several drawbacks: 1. other people may not necessarily associate the same trait with that gender, leading to possible confusion. 2. introducing gender into the message can introduce additional meaning, which can complicate the communication and possibly distract the audience toward irrelevant thoughts. (unless this is one's secret objective.) 3. it associates one more time that trait with that gender when the trait is really gender-neutral, which contributes to the acceptability of biases and stereotypes when dealing with actual people.
You seem to be really really hung up on the idea of stereotypes. Like, can't you just trust people to understand what you mean? Are they really so stupid?
I thought we were intelligent.
I can, but only when people stop to think through them, and are willing to question their assumptions in the process. Unfortunately, we don't always have time to stop and think, and sometimes we just have to do things on the fly, and that's when stereotypes come into play.
I could take the time to talk to everyone individually and try to convince them that they shouldn't make these assumptions about how gender works and should treat people as individual fellow human beings rather than as collections of assumed traits, but that's neither feasible nor welcome. So, instead, it seems better to reduce the associative "fuel" that sustains the stereotype in the first place.
Ah. I didn't know about those. I wonder if they are references to FF3's? Are there examples that predate FF3, or roughly contemporary with it but in English?
Holy shit, just now from looking it up on Wikipedia did I realize that (1) A Song of Ice and Fire is a book series, and (2) this Game of Thrones TV series is probably based on the first book in it.
Holy shit, just now from looking it up on Wikipedia did I realize that (1) A Song of Ice and Fire is a book series, and (2) this Game of Thrones TV series is probably based on the first book in it.
Wait, you didn't know that already?
The first season roughly encompasses the first book only. The next few seasons cover the next few books, but at kind of a curious pace. The first book was published less than a year after Final Fantasy III came out, and Martin started writing stories in the setting in the late '80s, so I get the feeling the "Onion Knight" thing is a coincidence rather than a reference. Ditto Berserk, which started running in 1989 or something.
^^ I had heard of A Song of Ice and Fire (which I misremembered as "Song of Fire and Ice"), but I am completely unfamiliar with the series. I hadn't heard of the name "Game of Thrones" at all before this TV series became a thing; I think at some point I confused Game of Thrones with Hunger Games.
(I don't know fantasy lit...sorry... -_-)
And I guess the "onion knight" thing might just be a coincidence.
im supposed to be going out and writing some poems and i dont have the mental concentration to write any poems and if i head out i will probably be exhausted by like midnight
its one of those days where you start listening to an album and then a while later you realise the album finished half an hour ago and youre sitting there with your headphones on listening to nothing
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I've done that before, but it's usually involved going online since I sleep with an Android device by my bed
I imagine you don't do that
I'm pretty much addicted to computers, in the most literal sense of the word >_>
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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But public speech has an effect on others, and using a gendered descriptor in place of (what to oneself is) an equivalent gender-neutral term has several drawbacks:
1. other people may not necessarily associate the same trait with that gender, leading to possible confusion.
2. introducing gender into the message can introduce additional meaning, which can complicate the communication and possibly distract the audience toward irrelevant thoughts. (unless this is one's secret objective.)
3. it associates one more time that trait with that gender when the trait is really gender-neutral, which contributes to the acceptability of biases and stereotypes when dealing with actual people.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Hell yeah
I could take the time to talk to everyone individually and try to convince them that they shouldn't make these assumptions about how gender works and should treat people as individual fellow human beings rather than as collections of assumed traits, but that's neither feasible nor welcome. So, instead, it seems better to reduce the associative "fuel" that sustains the stereotype in the first place.
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(I don't know fantasy lit...sorry... -_-)
And I guess the "onion knight" thing might just be a coincidence.
just dont want to do anything at all
this must be some kinda record for me
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