sept 09 - meitar “maymay” moscovitz - gender and technology

Gender and Technology

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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

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Gender binaries are limiting everyone

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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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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)