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"Eliza AI robot designed as real girl to offer human-like companionship, share feelings"
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/eliza-ai-robot-designed-as-real-girl
For $420,000 I could hire a secretary for less, and they wouldn't be a simulation. I wonder why the article says "girl", rather than "woman", or even "person"?
[white cis men need not comment]
#Men #Sexism #mansplaining #ToxicMasculinity #gaslighting #ReplyGuys
Very interesting: studies show that watching the documentary Picture a scientist has a measurable impact on scientists attitudes and behaviour. We observed similar impact of screening it in departments of our faculty. It’s good to know that sometimes change does happen.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-72395-y
#womenInSTEM #DEI #EDI #STEM #sexism
My son is the first (and only) all-boy’s team to play netball in my region. We’re at their first carnival today, playing only Division 1 girls’ teams in the age group up from theirs. Though they’re improving as they actually play together (they train in two groups thanks to distance), they’re still getting flogged every game.
There’s a certain level of sexism involved — the organisers, all women, looked a team of 12-15 year olds, some of whom have never played netball before, none of whom have ever played together, and went yep, they’ll be a suitable match for teams of first-division 16-year-olds who’ve played as a team for years, just because they’re boys.
(I mean it’s sexist against the girls. The organisers didn’t have enough confidence in the girls and assumed “maleness” could beat skill, talent and practice…)
Katherine Maher (ex Wikimedia) sums up the problem with AI (at the other place):
“AI that benefits all humanity” without a single woman or person of color on the OpenAI board. Where have I heard this story before?
THEIR EXPERIENCE OF REJECTION IS THE ARTWORK
For the last 4 years, the Tasmanian Museum of Old and New Art has been running an installation called The Ladies Lounge. Only people who identify as ladies are allowed to enter. In the lounge, they can sit in luxury and look at famous artworks by Picasso etc, which are not available elsewhere in the museum. They are served champagne and pampered by male butlers. It was meant as a comment on exclusionary men's clubs (which still exist in Australia and elsewhere).
Some dude got upset about it and sued the gallery for entry at the anti-discrimination tribunal. The artist, Kirsha Kaechele, said she was "absolutely delighted" that the exhibit had been taken to court. “The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork,” she said.
She then turned the tribunal hearing into part of the art as well, …
THEIR EXPERIENCE OF REJECTION IS THE ARTWORK
For the last 4 years, the Tasmanian Museum of Old and New Art has been running an installation called The Ladies Lounge. Only people who identify as ladies are allowed to enter. In the lounge, they can sit in luxury and look at famous artworks by Picasso etc, which are not available elsewhere in the museum. They are served champagne and pampered by male butlers. It was meant as a comment on exclusionary men's clubs (which still exist in Australia and elsewhere).
Some dude got upset about it and sued the gallery for entry at the anti-discrimination tribunal. The artist, Kirsha Kaechele, said she was "absolutely delighted" that the exhibit had been taken to court. “The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork,” she said.
She then turned the tribunal hearing into part of the art as well, by having a group of women observing the hearing dress like her and mimic her every move. They did not disrupt the hearing, and at the end of proceedings they exited the tribunal to the song Simply Irresistible.
Kaechele argued in her defence the Ladies Lounge was “a response to the lived experience of women forbidden from entering certain spaces throughout history” and promoted equal opportunity.
The tribunal found against the gallery and is ordering them to allow men to enter the exhibit. MONA is removing the exhibit instead.
Fucking love this artist 😂
#MONA #art #kristenkachele #sexism #discrimination #performanceart #australia
I. Feel. Every. Single. Fucking. Word.
#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #LateDiagnosis #Ableism #Sexism #PeripheralVestibularDisorder #ChronicPain #InvisibleDisability
So the good news is that the gender pay gap continues to close, although its still around 9% in aggregate terms (with wide variations).... but, its now 55 years since the Equal Py Act - that's at least two generations - and still we haven't made it to full equality.
Yet more evidence that sexism continues to pattern our society & we (still) need to work on eradicating it.
I’ve been conducting a personal social experience since my son started school. Across three different schools, I’ve listed my partner (Dad) as the primary parent for contact, me (Mum) as secondary.
We both get some communications. A random assortment is sent only to him (I wonder how this works with divorced parents).
ASTONISHINGLY, I have always been called first for the “your child is sick” summons and the “your child is misbehaving” conversations.
Hmm, what could possibly be the reason for that…
I was just told by a real life human being that refusing to read books by female authors because you prefer the style of male writers is not sexism actually.
Feminism has come such a long way.
RIP.
#feminism #writingcommunity #writerlife apparently #sexism
