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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://hachyderm.io/users/molly0xfff/statuses/110792071974470154">Molly White (molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 23:50:56 JST</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff" title="molly0xfff@hachyderm.io"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/34789-48-20230824095227.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Molly White" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Molly White</a><div><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/110792059875467051" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>...</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/1863781#notice-3655339">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-07-28T23:50:56+09:00" title="Friday, 28-Jul-2023 23:50:56 JST">Friday, 28-Jul-2023 23:50:56 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/110792071974470154" rel="external" title="Sent from hachyderm.io via ActivityPub">hachyderm.io</a></span></span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/110792071974470154">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1325572">Sexuality 
Cultural critic Mark Dery, in his 2012 book I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams, argues that "HAL's sibilant tone and use of feline phrases like 'quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about that' contains more than a hint of the stereotypic bitchy homosexual."[36] Drawing parallels between HAL and Alan Turing—a gay computer scientist known as the father of artificial intelligence and creator of the Turing test—Dery writes that "HAL was presumably raised by men and, like Turing, schooled in an all-male environment. That all-male environments are hotbeds of sublimated sexuality, haunted by the threat of same-sex love, is news to no one; English boarding schools such as Turing's, where 'contact between the boys was fraught with sexual potential' (Hodges), have long been the, er, butt of locker-room one-liners."[37]</a></label><br><a href="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/110/792/071/722/965/444/original/432afdf68571e08a.png" rel="external">https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/110/792/071/722/965/444/original/432afdf68571e08a.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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1. Sexuality Cultural critic Mark Dery, in his 2012 book I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams, argues that "HAL's sibilant tone and use of feline phrases like 'quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about that' contains more than a hint of the stereotypic bitchy homosexual."[36] Drawing parallels between HAL and Alan Turing—a gay computer scientist known as the father of artificial intelligence and creator of the Turing test—Dery writes that "HAL was presumably raised by men and, like Turing, schooled in an all-male environment. That all-male environments are hotbeds of sublimated sexuality, haunted by the threat of same-sex love, is news to no one; English boarding schools such as Turing's, where 'contact between the boys was fraught with sexual potential' (Hodges), have long been the, er, butt of locker-room one-liners."[37]
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