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andrewducker) wrote2017-07-18 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2017-07-18 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 18-07-2017
- A List Of Times Doctor Who Was Ruined Forever
- (tags: drwho funny )
- Scientists marvel at creatures' precise body clock
- (tags: time genes life )
- Taiwan woman divorces husband who ignored her messages
- (tags: communication relationships divorce marriage )
- Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare
- (tags: love relationships viaSwampers race uk )
- Custos startup uses bitcoin bounties to make pirates rat on one another
- (tags: piracy copyright bitcoin )
- UK students should not try to pay off loans early
- (tags: tax students uk )
- Pay-per-mile road tax plan wins £250,000 Wolfson economics prize
- (tags: tax cars transport economics viaSwampers )
- Humans hardwired to lean to the right while kissing the world over
- (tags: psychology romance kissing )
- Manchester’s bike-share scheme isn't working – because people don't know how to share
- (tags: sharing society bicycles UK manchester )
- Flow battery developer ViZn Energy says it can pair solar and storage for 4¢/kWh
- (tags: solarpower batteries electricity )
- Generating random English place names
- (tags: geography names AI England )
- Doctor Who: We regret to inform you that you are still legally a man
- (tags: drwho law lgbt transgender uk )
- “Board game of the year” goes to Kingdomino (my copy arrives today!)
- (tags: games )
- A brain implant turns “loser” mice into aggressive fighters
- (tags: mice brain aggression personality cyborg )
- Programmers discuss "What's the worst thing your code has done?"
- (tags: fail programming )
- Smoking in the UK now down to 15%, government aims for 12%
- (tags: smoking uk )
- Advertising watchdog to get tough on gender stereotypes
- (tags: advertising stereotypes gender uk )
Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare
But if they really try and really can't, sometimes you just can't control your sexual attraction. And you need to not make a big noise about it and write angry thinkpieces about "my prejudices are a natural law for everyone", and not rub people's faces in the fact you don't fancy them. But also, not force yourself to date people who have no attraction towards.
But I'm not sure if that's a reasonable compromise. Particularly in race; sexual attraction is really weird, but "only attracted to people of my own race" doesn't seem to be a thing (more attracted maybe, and "can't be bothered dating ignorant majority makes sense, but not as a "my orientation is....") But I don't want to pre-judge which orientations actually exist and which don't.
Re: Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare
And I also think that it's normal to be attracted to whatever you grew up with. So if you didn't grow up with, for instance, Korean people around you at all, then you probably won't be instantly attracted to them. But...you hopefully wouldn't entirely rules them out either.
Re: Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare
Can we please leave people SOMETHING they won't be judged about?
Re: Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare
But the article also mentions people saying something along the lines of "south-east Asian women are more submissive, so I like them better" -- and I do think that such statements are problematic.
Re: Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare
I think maybe the problem is, everyone should generally be a lot less racist than they are now, but when I read articles about that, I feel like they're telling me to take it to the logical conclusion, and obliterate any not-completely-egalitarian sexual orientation. But actually they're just being emphatic, not necessarily precise.