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34 votes
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Strongly influenced by Quakers 175 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA
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Berkeley professor Judith Butler explains gender theory
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Recent analysis shows Iberian Copper Age tomb of high-status person in Spain was built for a woman
“This study was undertaken as part of a broader research looking at the interplay between early social complexity and gender inequalities,” study co-author and University of Seville prehistorian...
“This study was undertaken as part of a broader research looking at the interplay between early social complexity and gender inequalities,” study co-author and University of Seville prehistorian Leonardo García Sanjuán tells PopSci. “As part of this research, it became obvious that there is a serious problem in the identification of biological sex in prehistoric skeletons, which are often found in a poor state of preservation.”
Now redubbed the “Ivory Lady,” this woman’s tomb was first discovered in 2008 in Valencia on Spain’s southeastern coast. The find dates back to the Copper Age, when the metal was used for construction, agriculture, and even creating engravings of owls that may have been toys. The grave is also a rare example of single occupancy burial at the time and the tomb was filled with the largest collection of valuable and rare items in the region. These treasures include high-quality flint, ostrich eggshell amber, a rock crystal dagger, and ivory tusks.
All of these trinkets and single tomb initially indicated that the remains must belong to a prominent male, but peptides and DNA don’t lie.
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How the pandemic hatched a new generation of transgender people
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They won't play a lady-o on US country radio
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J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell make history as first nonbinary acting winners at Tony Awards
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Sweden players had to show their genitalia at 2011 Women's World Cup – tests done after allegations of men in Equatorial Guinea squad
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Indiana governor signs “Don’t Say Gay” bill that forces teachers to out trans kids to their parents
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Dwyane Wade, who has trans daughter, says he left Florida because his family 'would not be accepted' there
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Gender-affirming care has a long history in the US
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The once unthinkable revolution coming to figure skating; Same gender pairs. Is the sport ready? Some of its biggest stars think so.
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The Witch Trials of JK Rowling
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Swedish retirees demand fairer pensions for women – The Old Lady Patrol's protest against the country's pension system enters its tenth year
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Eight times when strangers misread my gender, ranked
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Finland has passed a new, progressive rights law which makes it substantially easier for trans people to change their legal gender
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UK government to block Scottish gender bill
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Are you pressworthy?
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Florida Board of Medicine votes to ban gender affirming care for all trans teenagers
@Erin Reed: A dark day for trans youth.Florida Board of Medicine has just voted to ban gender affirming care for all trans teenagers.They cut the hearing early and told activists to "email them."I cry for Florida's trans youth. This was a sham hearing with fake experts. pic.twitter.com/JORaHN4uFA
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Top performers include Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands in the European EIGE Gender Equality Index for 2022
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This 33-year-old made more than 1,000 Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists
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Why men are hard to help
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Interrogating Gender-Exploratory Therapy (Perspectives on psychological science)
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The more gender equality, the fewer women in STEM
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New LGBTQ+ plan presented by the Danish government includes a proposal to expand access to legal gender change to all children regardless of age
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What's the point of grammatical gender?
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Three things I got wrong about patriarchy
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Gender has a history and its more recent than you may realize—The story of how society, ignorant of medical research, made a stigma of something our bodies do naturally: not conform to a sexual binary
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Accused of cheating by an algorithm, and a Professor she had never met. An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education.
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I need help with gender options in my game
I'm making a video game, which is sort of a mixture of a puzzle game and interactive fiction. I'm a little uncertain about some name and pronoun choices that I currently offer to the player and I...
I'm making a video game, which is sort of a mixture of a puzzle game and interactive fiction. I'm a little uncertain about some name and pronoun choices that I currently offer to the player and I thought that you guys might be able to help me.
The game is in English. At the beginning of the game, the player chooses the main character's name and pronoun. This is presented through two screens that offer the choices through textual narrative. It goes something like this, with [brackets] marking the options that the player can currently choose between.
This is the story of...
[...Alice Aster.]
[...Alan Aster.]
[...Al Aster.]
It is...
[...her story.]
[...his story.]
[...their story.]
Detached from the wider narrative context, this method may seem clunky, but I believe it works within the game itself. Mechanically, that is. I'm less sure about the options that I'm offering.
The player can choose any of the three options in the first screen and again any in the second, regardless of what they chose in the first. This affects the player character's name and pronouns used throughout the game.
Now, there clearly are also many other pronouns that people identify with in English, just like there are many other names. However, for technical and design reasons, it would be challenging for me to have the player freely type in their preferred name or pronouns, and neither can I really present a long list of options. At the same time, by condensing all non-binary choices into the most common (?) "their" and by assuming that "her" also equates to "she" and so on, I wonder if I end up coming across as someone who thinks they are on top of things, but clearly has only a very superficial understanding of the topic. Which, to be honest, might not be that far from the truth.
Similarly, of the three names offered, "Al" is intended as a more gender-neutral or non-binary option than the other two. Does that make sense? Would there be a better way to handle this? Are there names that better signal non-binary or gender-neutral identity?
Or am I simply approaching this wrong?
The game itself does not deal with gender identity. As you can see, I'm not the right person to write about the topic. The choice of gender in fact has relatively little effect on the story itself. The player also has no choice over other matters of identity, including their character's cultural background or family structure. The character is not intended to be the player, but someone whose story the player follows. But it still feels important for me and for the story to offer a choice about the name and the pronoun. And I wouldn't be comfortable with it being just a "traditional" choice between male and female, as it would quite explicitly imply and reinforce assumptions about the world that I think we should move away from as a society.
Not that my game is of course going to change the world in any meaningful way. But having worked on it for about six years now, it has been one long personal learning experience for me. And this feels like another opportunity to understand something better.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts and advice.
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In mainland Iceland's northernmost town, the women who powered the herring industry – and fought for gender equality – are driving a new tourism boom
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Gladys Bentley: Gender-bending performer and musician of the Harlem Renaissance (1920-30s)
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Eliza Reid: ‘The ancient Icelandic word 'sprakkar' means outstanding women. And they're all around us’.
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Soap or Scum? Inside the fight over history's most controversial sitcom
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Women in tech and business: What was the best advice you got about promoting yourself at work?
...and the follow-up: How did it change your behavior? I'm planning an International Women's Day blog post and would love to include your input.
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Predictive pattern classification can distinguish gender identity subtypes from behavior and brain imaging
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Do Ask, Tell, and Show: Contextual Factors Affecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Disclosure for Sexual and Gender Minority People
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Archaeology’s sexual revolution
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Gendering is a luxury
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Why boyish girls are judged less than girlish boys
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I am a transwoman, I am in the closet and I am not coming out
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California lawsuit against PlayStation alleges gender discrimination
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Megan Thee Stallion and fast food’s ongoing pursuit of Black buy-in
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When times are good, the gender gap grows
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Pogrom climate in Britain
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Gender in Latin and beyond
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Bill 2 is "the most transphobic bill ever proposed in Quebec," activist says
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California to enforce 'gender neutral' toy aisles in large stores
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Lego has announced it will work to remove gender stereotypes from its toys – research reveals harmful stereotypes still hindering girls, boys and their parents
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In an open letter, five Nordic sports ministers have urged the International Handball Federation to review their uniform rules for female athletes
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