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Jesse Damiani

@JesseDamiani

Aug 30, 2019

In case you had any doubts about sexism:

forbes.com

Massive Machine Learning Study Demonstrates Gender Stereotyping And Sexist Language In Literature

An AI trawled 3.5M books published in the modern era and found that men are described based on their behavior, where women are described based on appearance.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

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@JesseDamiani

For some reason I don't parse this as 'sexist.' I notice that when I imagine it in more recent books, I do think of it as sexist, but in ye olde times it feels like a weird word to apply.

5:12 PM · Aug 30, 2019