Monday 27 April 2015

The Superiority problem

Ideology:
All other religions are inferior to Christianity

Result:
Crusades

Ideology:
Africans are inferior to English

Result:
Slavery

Ideology :
Other races than the Aerian race (Germany) are inferior/do not count esp Jews

Result:
Holocaust, genocide

Ideology:
Animals are inferior to humans

Result:
Animal abuse, animal testing etc.

Ideology:
Women are inferior to men

Result:
Misogyny, unequal rights (cannot vote, work, go out without total coverage in some countries)

Notice  a pattern?

Monday 6 April 2015

Sexuality TV representation YouTube debate

Note. This is a personal, not educational, blog so these are my personal thoughts and may not be backed up with research.

This debate came up in a video about a cartoon character's ambiguous sexuality (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTXlZNvNBHY). I thought I'd share.


Other commenter:
I think some kid shows should include homosexuality, because of the stereotype Girl+Boy. This makes kids have intolerance to gay relationships, and that's just sad. And just imagine their faces when they find out boy+boy is actaully possible. Just my thinking.


Me:
I'm heterosexual (I don't like 'straight', sounds kinda offensive as implies
that anything else is wrong) and I found that I kinda learned about other
sexualities in a too stereotypical fashion (through representation in TV
shows) which gives makes it hard to be equality-focused. Childrens' TV
shows tend to be along the lines of 'this is the perfect family structure:
mum, dad, boy and girl (or same gender children).' 

There is barely representation of other heterosexual family structures such as extended or single parent never mind homosexual. If people learned about these through the non-stereotyped fashion* in the same way it would possibly make it easier for statistically less common sexualities and family stuctures to be accepted. I imagine this is particularly difficult if you are within LGBT and find every representation is of seemingly 'perfect' heterosexual couples or boyfriends/girlfriends and the few representations that meet yours are stereotypes.

*the gender roles tend to be very traditional in these programmes but that's going off topic

Sunday 5 April 2015

Useful Android apps

These are some useful apps I use all the time on Android. I am not affiliated or sponsored by any of the companies producing these apps and the descriptions are either my own or taken from the app description.

I use an advanced vetting process as follows (diagram):





Useful note taking app for mobile (app) and desktop browser (instant sync) with interactive checklists, general notes and photo text transcriptions. No ads!


As hinted by the name, this app work as a fast notepad. It's the Android equivalent of Notepad on Windows computers or TextEdit on Mac (I guess). The nice thing is that it is uncomplicated so allows you to quickly take and save notes on things. However, unlike Keep it has no auto-internet sync functions I am aware of.


Useful for checking your emails on the go, because of course you have to check them every second of the day! Works with the Gmail browser app

Music player, basically the Google variant of iTunes except easier (probably). I prefer this to the hard to see default music player on Galaxy S3 (too dark) and you can also play and manage music bought in the (Google) Play Store


Nothing special but lets you tweak your photos a bit. Nowhere near as powerful as the desktop pro version but does some stuff