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Excuse me, but this "flipping" business only further reinforces the idea of gender as a binary construct, which is problematic.
by 1000units 8y ago
Excuse me, but this "flipping" business only further reinforces the idea of gender as a binary construct, which is problematic.
- backpropaganda 8y agoNot sure if you're trolling but a tool which flips between two popular genders doesn't deny existence of other genders. Not everything related to gender has to be about the gender spectrum.
- Old_Thrashbarg 8y agoAgreed, you can tackle one problem at a time. And I think progress on one might spread over to the other also.
- rectangletangle 8y agoA k2+ gender version would be an interesting expansion on the idea though. Since the notion of a complementary or inverse gender isn't universal to all genders, maybe cases where there's no clear inverse the gender could be swapped with a randomly chosen gender. Or just swap any explicit gender reference with a different randomly chosen gender. This becomes a bit more challenging if you want to keep the output cohesive though, since you'd probably have to introduce some sort of entity linking scheme. Another issue is finding an appropriate k for genders, assuming this package is implemented with some sort of hard coded gender mapping. This becomes more complex when accounting for different cultures, which probably just ends up multiplying k by m cultures.
- Old_Thrashbarg 8y agoTrue, I was originally going to name it `gender_flipper`, but someone made the same point, so I called it `gender_bender`. This way, the name will still make sense if the ability to go from gendered pronouns to genderless pronouns ("singular they" or "ze") is added. PRs are welcome! For now, I just put "Flip gender" in the title of this HN post to more accurately reflect what the package does today.
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