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Towards a more robotic future.
by mahouse 11y ago
Towards a more robotic future.
- mkr-hn 11y agoI must be misunderstanding you, because it looks like you're saying refusing to conform to gender roles makes us more robotic. Which would be ridiculous, so you probably don't mean that.
- mahouse 11y agoYou are understanding me well. I think gender roles are a very important part of what makes us human. (Or animalic.)
- FLGMwt 11y agoGender identity and agency are a different than prescribed gender roles.
- JoshTriplett 11y agoAll of which is separate from "what kind of toys do you like to play with".
- pauleastlund 11y agoI get what you're saying, but there is a vast gulf between: - gender is not just a social construct, men and women in aggregate don't have the exact same strengths, and that diversity is beautiful rather than something we need to suppress and - boys should play football and girls should play with dolls and wear frilly dresses I think people who agree with the former, but not the latter, should overall feel good about Amazon not gratuitously dividing all sorts of categories of toys into "his" and "hers."
- baddox 11y ago> should Amazons categorization probably does not imply a normative belief. I doubt Amazon cares if you order an Iron Man toy for a female.
- chc 11y agoI can't see how you'd interpret "Boys' Toys" and "Girls' Toys" in a non-normative way (unless we're talking about the set of toys that are actually in the possession of those groups right now, which is plainly not the case here). Surely the meaning is something like "Toys that it is normal for boys to play with."
- baddox 11y agoSorry, I meant "normative" in the philosophical sense, as in normative ethics. My non-normative interpretation is "toys marketed to and widely considered to be intended primarily for boys" and "toys marketed to and widely considered to be intended primarily for girls."
- FLGMwt 11y agoYou. I like you.
- baddox 11y agoWould it be prudent for Amazon to also remove or hide the gender categories for clothing?
- stbtrax 11y agoMost likely, you wouldn't be on this website, nor in your field, had a lack of penis dictated that you play with cooking and dress-up toys.
- mahouse 11y agoI don't understand how that would make me a worse, less happy or less useful member of our society.