[ExI] quote of the day - power

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 9:49 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> OK do explain this then Adrian.  Imagine if you haven’t ever seen it, a
> pole dancer of the usual gender (female.)  Now do the same with the
> Chippendale’s show with male strippers.  I haven’t attended the latter, but
> I have the former.  Those two shows are received far differently, and it is
> most puzzling.  The men at the pole dancer show look up occasionally, stuff
> bills in the performers’ few remaining garments, but are mostly
> indifferent.  There you see guys talking to each other about sports (the
> kind that involves cars and orbs, discussions that have nothing to do with
> what is happening on the stage.)
>
> In stark contrast, the female audience of a male stripper show and
> cheering wildly and carrying on (as depicted in Hollywood movies, I don’t
> actually know if it works that way IRL or if it is a Hollywood gross
> exaggeration (anyone here know?))  The ladies are engaged, participating.
>

Yeah, no.  I said genderswap, I meant straight genderswap.  Female
strippers at Chippendale's.  Women looking up occasionally at male pole
dancers.  You wanted them to see each other's perspective...

> Then what if… we had gender-swapping visors and we gave them to people who
> had been raised in cultures where women’s feelings and women’s ideas were
> disregarded?  What would that be like?
>

"Mind blowing" seems the most likely description.  Many would undoubtedly
reject the "obviously preposterous and impossible" adjusted vision, several
to the degree of violently objecting to others seeing it (because they feel
threatened)...but for many others, this would be their first serious
exposure to the concept of considering the other gender as equals, and they
might then consider it.  Hard to say which camp would have more.

The next thing I will suggest follows logically: we don’t yet have
> gender-swapping or culture-swapping visors, but we have literature.  We
> take our best guess at how to explain to someone from another viewpoint
> what it feels like in here in our minds.  We know it doesn’t work all that
> well.
>

It is entirely possible to do a visual representation of this, no goggles
necessary.  Done well, it can even be profitable, the genderswap being one
of the hooks.  (Of course, you'd have to otherwise be able to develop and
market the particular media you choose - just, this can help.)
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