> On Jul 1, 2016, at 1:17 PM, Loi, Daria A <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> For instance, since the initial post had the notion of misogyny at its core, we could consider focusing our collective intelligence on what misogyny means for design, design research and the design community.
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> As a female in the tech industry (where misogyny sadly abounds), I would be very interested in hearing what the list thinks about what design can do about this matter, and get a chance to learn from everyone on this list.
Daria,
I think you’ll have better luck in starting a conversation by making a statement or posing a more specific question. In the mean time, I’ll take a stab at responding in a bit of a vacuum:
I’m curious what you had in mind. Are you talking about misogyny among designers, misogyny "baked in" to designs/designed objects, or something else? If your answer is the "baked in" stuff, are you talking about something akin to the AI "white guy problems" in the New York Times article I posted the other day?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/artificial-intelligences-white-guy-problem.html
It tends to be a problem of structural racism (a parallel topic to misogyny, I assume you’ll agree) but I’m glad to see that sentencing software (as mentioned in the article) is finally getting some legal scrutiny. It’s sad that the US has, seemingly, decided to automate our worst tendencies.
Gunnar
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