Prejudicial stereotypes and testimonial injustice: Autism, sexuality and sex education

Sex Stereotypes and Conversational Agents

This paper presents some insights into the effect of ‘virtual gender’ on the way people interact with, make sense of, and build relationships with conversational agents. The focus is on the linkage between sex stereotypes and aggression, in the form of verbal abuse towards the machine. Implications for design of embodied conversational agents are discussed.

Difference and pathology: stereotypes of sexuality, race, and madness

role of emotions on gut function (thus heralding his next series of researches that were summarized in Bodily changes in pain, hunger,fear and rage, 1915, second edition republished 1963 by Harper Torchbooks, New York). The new technique permitted him to describe specific mechanical activities of different regions of the gut and helped him to differentiate gut sounds using air-filled preparatio...

Sexuality: Sex Ratio and Sex Expression

[Sex education as a cornerstone for a healthy teenage sexuality].

Sexuality is more than reproduction, it is an intrinsic part of each of us, is how we develop and relate with others and with the environment of the society to which we belong. Adolescence is a period with special vulnerability for the development of risky behaviors. In Chile, a progressive decrease in the age of sexual activity onset is observed, particularly in lower socioeconomic strata. The...

Stereotypes of autism.

In their landmark papers, both Kanner and Asperger employed a series of case histories to shape clinical insight into autistic disorders. This way of introducing, assessing and representing disorders has disappeared from today's psychiatric practice, yet it offers a convincing model of the way stereotypes may build up as a result of representations of autism. Considering that much of what socie...