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If the editors of the Atlantic Monthly got high and decided to start a revolution, they might come up with something like Other magazine. Then again, it’s quite possible that only Charlie Anders and Annalee Newitz could’ve conceived of such a thing ... Published three times a year, Other is a journal of dissident nonfiction, transgressive fiction, freethinking comic art, and experimental poetry."

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9/24/2003

Sexing the Database [General] ? charlieanders @ 2:07 am

from other #1, June 2003: How many times will you disclose your gender today? If you read the Washington Post on-line in the morning, you will be asked to check ?male? or ?female? in a dialog box before you get the news. If you go to work or school, you have already told a human resources manager or admissions officer what your gender is. Along with a great deal of other information about you, your gender is permanently attached to your name in a database of your fellow employees or students. If use a public bathroom sometime during the day, most likely you?ll have to pick a gender in order to do it? read the rest here!

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