Category Archives: Idle Chit-Chat

Safe Spaces, No Platforming and Snowflake Politics

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Frank

The U.K. Government is worried about free speech in universities, and announced yesterday (Boxing Day, 2017) that universities could face penalities. Speaking on the BBC, Jo Johnson, Minister of State for Universities and Science, said: @2:33: “… because we are … Continue reading →

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Secondary Education

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Frank

More on the UK Government’s a consultation on Relationships and Sex Education in English secondary schools. Question No. 2 is: Thinking about relationships and sex education in secondary schools, what do you believe are the three most important subject areas … Continue reading →

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Primary Education

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Frank

The UK Government’s Department for Education has just begun a consultation with schools, parents and pupils (in England) on a long overdue revision to the Relationships Education in primary schools and the Relationships and Sex Education in secondary schools. (Here’s … Continue reading →

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Who educates the educators?

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Frank

Children as young as ten are being asked … whether they feel “comfortable in their gender.” The survey, distributed to schools by the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, asks (amongst a number of questions on other serious issues) children to … Continue reading →

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More fun with fractals

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Frank

It’s been a while since I last posted fractal images… In retrospect, it was obvious the Mandelbrot set would rotate into a circle. After all, I knew from the start that there was no point rotating it about the real … Continue reading →

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Making Judgements

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Frank

Warning: Offensive language and triggers aplenty. Apologies in advance. Female sexbots are hated – why? What about the men who own and use them? Which of the following statements do you agree with? The sexbot-as-machine is: A deceiver, an unfeeling … Continue reading →

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The goddess and the sexbot

Posted on April 22, 2017 by Frank

I have a copper figurine that I bought nineteen years ago in Athens. I paid more for it than I realised at the time, but it’s worth far more to me than I paid. While it does have a certain … Continue reading →

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That which we call a sexbot

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Frank

Sexbot. Fembot. Gynoid. What’s the difference? Aren’t fembots just sexbots with nipple guns? And gynoid sounds like a disease of the testicles… Limiting the discussion to mechanical robots of humanoid appearance, excluding therefore sex-robots (see Disgusting – Sexbots? Or humans?) … Continue reading →

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Disgusting – Sexbots? Or humans?

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Frank

I have been reading A Perspective on Disgust (Rozin & Fallon, 1987). The focus is on food generally, but includes anything that may touch and potentially contaminate the body – such as semen. For example, something that has been produced/possessed/touched … Continue reading →

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The Stepford Horizon

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Frank

In Ira Levin’s 1972 The Stepford Wives, a group of husbands conspire to replace their wives with robot duuplicates. The leader of this conspiracy is Dale Coba, a former Disney engineer. In a case of life imitating art, last week … Continue reading →

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