She said she had enough of what she called a "pointedly nasty, gendered and misogynistic" conversation about femininity in our culture.
With so-called Equal Pay Day last week ― symbolizing how far into the year women would have to work to match men's earnings in the previous year ― there's been a lot of conversation about gendered gaps in pay, much of which has focused on a number that only represents women on average.
The chatbot, named "Tay" (and, as is often the case, gendered female), was designed to have conversations with Twitter users, and learn how to mimic a human by copying their speech patterns.
In addition to efforts to further bias-proof the salary formula, the company has scrubbed job descriptions of gendered pronouns and words and rethought conversations about the importance of "culture fit" during the hiring process.
Gendered, non-gendered, functional, etc.
What we have now is an oppressive, racialized, and gendered hierarchy of care work at "home," and a popular conversation among executive "feminists" about how to climb the corporate ladder.
' And so I said, "Will you stop talking and take your damn trousers off," and after that it was fine.' And so it was, within 25 seconds of conversation, that my friend Emma proved precisely why making gendered generalisations about how men and women feel about sex, let alone about how they engage in it and with whom, is pointless.
Gendered personalities are supposedly manifested in common gender stereotypical behaviour.
While these kinds of elementary questions have for the most part been absent from the national conversation about Newtown, this latest horrific massacre has arguably generated more gendered analysis than any of the previous ones.
Talk of the death threat has been eclipsed in following conversations, mirroring the wider tendency to focus on the word rather than the gendered hate that is often behind in.
