TED: This is what it means to be Human.

submitted by Gale Wallis (bareboards2)
1 decade 1 year 4 months ago
from TED website:
Artist iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2,000 people who consider themselves somewhere on the LBGTQ spectrum and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? Most people, it turns out, consider themselves to exist in the gray areas of sexuality, not 100% gay or straight. Which presents a real problem when it comes to discrimination: Where do you draw the line? (Filmed at TEDxWomen.)

As a child actor, iO Tillett Wright turned her shoes around in the bathroom stall so that people would think she was a boy. As a teenager, she fell in love with both women and men. Her life in the grey areas of gender and sexuality deeply inform her work as an artist.

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siftbotsays...

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peter12jokingly says...

Heterosexuals. When I see a couple, the first thing I think of, what they do in their bedroom. Have you read "shades of grey" ... omg. I spoke with my pastor about it, and now I'm so sorry for them, they all going to hell. OK, that's not my problem, but why they have show their heterosexuality in public: man's douchebag attitude and woman's beauty princess attitude. Why they just can't act like normal people?

siftbotsays...

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Stormsingersays...

What a bizarre concept...I can't even assign a percentage to my -own- orientation, how would I assign one to someone elses?

Oh, that wasn't the question at all...I need my glasses. I hate getting old.

Jinxsays...

We are kind programmed to make snap judgements about people, to classify them and quickly extrapolate from low information. I guess that pattern detecting/creating algorythm served us very well in the past, its just a shame that we have to fight our lowly origins on the daily.

You photograph somebody far away and they are simplified into maybe 100 boxes of colour. The closer you get the more pixels you get to describe the reality. Just gotta hope people can revise their low resolution perceptions.

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