Interesting Simple use of Transclusion (uncover your own bias)

[TonyM]

Folks,

I just wanted to let you know I recent wrote a Document where there were two protagonists, one Alice and the Other Bob. What I discovered

was it reads differently if you swap the Female with the male, giving an interesting perspective on social expectations, So this is what I did, I replaced Alice with {{a}} and Bob With {{b}} and then with in each of those I created the fields p1 and P2 for personal pronouns and gave "a" p1 of she and a p2 of her and in "b" a p1 of he and a p2 of him. 

So with a search and replace I changed the text to use the transcludions {{a}}  {{a!!p1}} {{a!!p2}} and {{b}}  {{b!!p1}} {{b!!p2}} 

Now by modifying tiddlers a and b I can see if my text is gender less

An interesting exercise in uncovering our own biases.

Regards

Tony

[barro...@gmail.com]

Perfect, especially if you're looking at dialogue where the actors will not be set but will vary depending upon situational circumstances.

[TonyM]

Barro,

Yes, including the personal pronouns is powerful, because changing sex does raise interesting differences, differences that expose gender bias. I could imagine "toggling" the genders of multiple characters to achieve the greatest effect after writing the content.

Regards

Tony