Think Alexa, Cortana, and Siri: why are they all women? Today I talk about sexism in synthesised speech and digitised assistants. Sources to note: UNESCO 2019 “I’d blush if I could”. Lingel & Crawford 2020, “Alexa, tell me about your mother”. Cameron 2001 “Designer Voices”. Hempel 2015, “Siri and Cortana”. Gersen 2019, “SEX LEX MACHINA”.
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Cancel Culture: Censorship or Justice?
Talking about cancel culture and what it does and doesn’t achieve. What does it even want?
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The Male Gaze
"Even as she is walking or weeping, she cannot avoid imagining herself walking or weeping." We are all watching ourselves; why?
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What is a TERF?
We are talking about TERFs today; a little call back to JK Rowling. The book I mentioned is Literary Theory by Eagleton. Please send me voice messages that I can put in my podcasts (if you went)! You can do this on my Anchor page if you just click the link to any podcast episode and choose to go straight to anchor :)
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Why are Male Suicide Rates so High?
TW of course; nothing too graphic, just a very sensitive topic. Today I'm talking about factors that I myself and psychologists think are foundational to making male suicide the biggest killer of men under 45. PLEASE SEEK HELP IF YOU WISH! LIVI is the GP app, it's excellent. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Piersig) discusses classical/romantic thinking, Women and Madness is about psychiatry (Chesler, 1972).
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