Posts Tagged ‘OkCupid’

More on “The Match Percentage Fallacy, or, the influence of rolequeerness on the Predator Alert Tool project”

19 Nov 2014 at 21:24

maymay

Politics of sex, Technology

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thebrightobvious: idlnmclean: maymay: […prior discussion truncated…] It deconstructs reified institutions and intuitions by applied and analytical philosophy. Very quick, very informal comment: let’s connect the “social justice as melodrama” concept to game theory. My explication probably will be flawed, so feel free to critique it. Interacting in mainstream society can be thought of as a […]

Predator Alert Tool for OkCupid now warns of abusive dominants, like Jian Ghomeshi

27 Oct 2014 at 18:05

maymay

Politics of sex, Technology

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I am happy to announce that I have just released an update to the Predator Alert Tool for OkCupid, bringing it up to version 0.5.3. This version fixes a few bugs in its auto-update functionality and, importantly, adds new red-flag questions to the default questionnaire in order to help users better protect themselves against predatory […]

Believe it or not, Predator Alert Tool isn’t more widely used because, on some level, you think rape is okay.

06 Aug 2014 at 15:08

maymay

Politics of sex, Technology

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So here’s an interesting thing. This article about Predator Alert Tool for OkCupid written by a woman in New York City (certainly a progressive city by most feminist standards) discusses rape culture without naming the term, but also contains a bunch of rape apologia of its own. Check out this telling excerpt: Perhaps more importantly, […]

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