1. Gender and Technology
Image Credit:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=234
by Meitar Moscovitz
maymay.net

2. sex20con.com
Sex 1.0
Source: Facebook.com Source: FetLife.com

3. sex20con.com
Sex 1.0
Source: Facebook.com Source: FetLife.com
(So last millennium.)

4. Cybersex triggered a sexual renaissance
Second Life The Sims

5. Cybersex triggered a sexual renaissance
Second Life The Sims
My hawt partner and I as
(I don’t know these people.)
recreated by our friend Tyler.

6. Technology can define “normal”

7. Technology can define “normal”

12. Yay genderform!
http://www.kreativekorp.com/miscpages/gender/gender.pl

13. Yay genderform!
http://www.kreativekorp.com/miscpages/gender/gender.pl

14. 925 options = 2.8363×10278 combinations

15. 925 options = 2.8363×10278 combinations
283,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000…
ISO 5218 (options are mutually exclusive)
• 0 = not known
• 1 = male
• 2 = female
• 9 = not applicable

18. Have you tried not being a mutant?

19. Dude, where’s my gender?
http://www.okcupid.com/signup

20. Gender != Sex
Sex != Sexuality
From Wikipedia’s community guidelines discussing appropriate terminology for articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sexology_and_Sexuality/Terminology

21. Gender != Sex
Sex != Sexuality
“The question was, and is, who speaks, and when, and for
whom, and why.” - Neil Bartlett (1988)
From Wikipedia’s community guidelines discussing appropriate terminology for articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sexology_and_Sexuality/Terminology

22. How to design a sexist marriage database
`males`
- `id`
- `forename`
- `surname`
- `birthdate`
- `wife_id` (foreign key references column `females`.`id`, may be NULL if male is unmarried)
`females`
- `id`
- `forename`
- `surname`
- `birthdate`
Sam Hughes’s “Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective”
http://qntm.org/?gay

23. “[H]omosexual marriages create repulsive integrity
problems in their heads. … How sad.”
Image Credit: Image Credit:
http://flickr.com/photos/whorange/2726123493/ http://flickr.com/photos/whorange/2726948512/
Which one’s the wife? Does not compute!

24. How to design a robust marriage database
`humans`
- `id`
- `forename`
- `surname`
- `birthdate`
`binary_marriages`
- `id`
- `partner_1_id` (foreign key references column `humans`.`id`)
- `partner_2_id` (foreign key references column `humans`.`id`)
- `marriage_date`
- `divorce_date` (NULL if still married)
Sam Hughes’s “Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective”
http://qntm.org/?gay

25. How to design a robust marriage database
`humans`
- `id`
- `forename`
- `surname`
- `birthdate`
`binary_marriages`
- `id`
- `partner_1_id` (foreign key references column `humans`.`id`)
- `partner_2_id` (foreign key references column `humans`.`id`)
- `marriage_date`
- `divorce_date` (NULL if still married)
(Actually, this is illegal in most jurisdictions today.)
Sam Hughes’s “Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective”
http://qntm.org/?gay

26. Gender binaries are limiting everyone
Image Credit: http://www.wandco.com/projects/

27. Behavior is not defined by anatomy
Image Credit:
http://katebornstein.typepad.com/kate_bornsteins_blog/2008/11/sign-of-the-tra.html

28. Do (it) good.
“Vanilla rules apply.”

29. Do (it) good.
• What are you really asking for?
• How are you asking for it?
• Why are you asking for it?
“Vanilla rules apply.”

30. How do we answer this?
What are you really after?
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/58633480@N00/3127632212/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sakeme/3088275601/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pictoral/226626282/

31. “be liberal in what you accept”
– Postel’s Law
(RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol)

32. “be liberal in what you accept”
– Postel’s Law
(RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol)
“there’s gonna be a lot more guys
with makeup during this millennium”
– Eddie Izzard
(guy in makeup)