Ok. Not arguing at all, just curious. Thank you very much. Hmm I think I see much clearly the difference if I translate it to Spanish. Certainly "hembra" (female) sounds horrible.
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Agreed, with both of you. I realized later that even the use of 'woman professor' does not pass the Finkbeiner test: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finkbeiner_test …
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There are some special circumstances where we need to be able talk about gender though, especially to address diversity issues. If we cannot name than we cannot address. Cf. ppl who claim that we should not talk about 'race' at all because that ...
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... would be 'racism', while in fact it just silences those who want to address racial injustice and institutionalized racism. Same for sexism IMO.
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(fwiw) fully agree with this. Eg that’s why I wanted to include the gender breakdowns to show these biases.
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I understood that when I saw the labels :) Gives ppl insight in the (lack of) diversity of their own interactions (on one aspect of diversity, that is).
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Lost in a side thread is a link about this, which you might find interesting https://emptysqua.re/blog/gender-of-twitter-users-i-follow/ …
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Not in every context but in this one, what can be measured can be improved!
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