## Brainstorm - FAQs for common patriarchical thinking/norms - Resources - Chatbot question-answering about "is this patriarchical"? - General rubric/structure ## ChatGPT ### [[2024-10-06]] #### Initial Question > Help me build an application that helps people challenge patriarchal thinking and beliefs. When I say patriarchal thinking, I mean pertaining the patriarchy, like how old white men have historically controlled aspects of society to suppress women and minorities. What features should it provide to users of the application to help them best challenge the patriarchy? - Educational Content and Resources - **Modules on History of Patriarchy**: Provide users with accessible content on the history of patriarchy, gender inequality, and the intersections of race and class. Include multimedia (videos, infographics, podcasts) that explain the influence of patriarchal structures across societies - **Critical Thinking Tools**: Offer users a guide to recognizing patriarchy in everyday interactions, media, and workplace settings. Provide real-life examples and break down gender biases, microaggressions, and other patriarchal structures - **Reading Recommendations**: Suggest books, articles, podcasts, and documentaries that foster a deeper understanding of feminism, intersectionality, and anti-patriarchal movements - **Glossary of Terms**: Create a glossary explaining common feminist terms like intersectionality, toxic masculinity, privilege, and marginalizations - Interactive Quizzes and Self-Assessments - **Bias Check Tools**: Include quizzes that help users identify their own internalized biases, gender roles, and assumptions they may not even be aware of - **Reflection Prompts**: Provide reflective questions or prompts to encourage users to think critically about their experiences and the societal systems that shape them - Community Engagement and Advocacy - **Discussion Forums**: Create safe, moderated spaces for users to share experiences and ideas around challenging patriarchal thinking. Encourage discussions on specific topics such as work culture, media representations, and personal relationships - **Local Advocacy Groups**: Help users find local or online communities and advocacy groups for gender equality and anti-patriarchal movements - **Mentorship and Peer Support**: Facilitate connections between users who are actively working to challenge patriarchy, fostering mentorship or peer-to-peer support - Practical Tools for Daily Life - **Patriarchy Detection in Media**: Develop a tool where users can input media content (films, TV shows, news articles) and receive an analysis of its gender bias or patriarchal content. This could rely on AI or a community-driven review system - **Workplace Toolkit**: Offer tips and advice for women and minorities on how to navigate and challenge patriarchal structures in professional environments. Include templates for email responses, guidance on negotiation, and techniques for addressing gender bias at work. - **Allyship Guidance**: Include resources for men or non-marginalized groups to become allies, outlining actions they can take to challenge patriarchy in their circles. - Action-Based Challenges and Campaigns - **Weekly Challenges**: Propose weekly or monthly challenges encouraging users to take specific actions (calling out a sexist remark, promoting a female-led initiative, or sharing feminist content on social media). Track progress and offer rewards - **Campaign Participations**: Allow users to join feminist movements, anti-patriarchal campaigns, or specific social media challenge focused on gender equality (eg supporting legislation for equal pay) - **Personal Goals and Progress Tracking**: Enable users to set personal goals related to challenging their patriarchal beliefs in their lives, such as addressing biases at home or work. offer tracking tools to measure progress. - Safe Space for Sharing Storesi - **Anonymous Story Sharing**: Create a feature that llows users to anonymously share their experience of challenging patarichal norms or encountering sexism. provide a supportive environment with options for feedback, emotional support, or solidarity. - **Inspirational Stories and Role Models**: Showcase stories of historical and contemporary women, minotiries, and allies who have successfully challenged patriachal norms. This can inspire and motivate users - Real-Time Support - **Help and Advice Hotline**: provide a directory of hotlines or real-time chat support for users facing immediate challenges related to gender inequality, such as workplace discrimination or domestic violence. - **Expert Q&A Sessions**: Host Q&A sessions with experts in gender studies, intersectional feminism and activism to answer questions and guide users in their journey toward challenging patriarchy - Social Media Integration - **Amplify Feminist Voices**: Integrate features that allow users to share feminist content, quotes, or infographics directly to social media 0platforms, raising awareness about issues related to patriarchy - **Hashtag Challenges**: Create hashtag campaigns that encourage users to spread awareness on social media, promoting anti-patriarchal messages and encouraging their circles to engage - Cultural Sensitivity - **Global Focus**: Offer culturally sensitive content that acknowledges patriarchy operates differently across different societies and intersects with issues of race, class, and geography. Ensure the app reflects a global perspective, not just Western feminism - Gamification Elements - **Points and Badges**: Users can earn points, badges, and rewards for completing modules, participating in discussions, or taking action in their personal lives - **Levels of Awareness**: Create levels that signify a user's journey in understanding and challenging patariachal norms, from "Novice" to "Ally" or "Activist" - Rsources for Allies and Leaders - **Workshops and Trainings**: provide reousrces for companies or community leaders to host workshops that challenge gender baises, patriarchy, and encourage equitable practi8ces - **Leadership Toolkits**: Offer leadership toolkits for women and minorities looking. to step into leadership roles that help challenge existing patriarchal systems #### Narrowing Down an MVP > I would like to explore features I could ship that would help engage the most users int he shortest amount of time - Quizzes and Self-Assessments - **Launch FEatures**: Self-assessment quizzes on patriarchal beliefs, gender biases, and allyship can instnatly hook users. Peopl are naturally curious about their own biases and how they comapre ot others - **Engagement Strategy**: Create shareable results that users can post on social media *I'm 75% aware of gender bias. What about you?*) This encourages virality and draws others to takt ehq quiz - **Low Entry Barrier**: its' easy to complete and takes minimal time but offers immediate pe rsonal insight. This can lead to mroe curious and exloration of the app's other features - Weekly Challenges or Actions - **Launch feature**: introduct simple weekly challenges related to challenging patariarchal thinking daily life. These could be small, actionable steps such as "Call out one example of gender bias this week" or "Support a woman-led business" - **Engagement Strategy**: Track challenge part5iciaption and offer badges or progress meters. Includ a sharing feature to encourage social accountability and visibility. Users who complete challenges can see how many others have comlpeted them, fostering a sense of collective action - **Short Time Commitment**: These challenges don't require much time but keep users coming back weely. Immediate impact is visible, motivating users to stay engaged - Shareable Ecuational Content - **Launch feature**: provide short, bite-sized eudcational content int he form of infographics, memes or videos that are deisgned to be shared on social media. Topics could include key terms, statistics on gender equality, or simple explanations of intersectionality - **Engagement Startegy**: People love to share content aht's easily digestible but carries a strong message. Allow users to post these directly to platforms like Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok - **Viral potential**: focus on visually appealing, impactful content that can reach large audiences through social shareing - Duscission Forms or Sociial Feed - **launch feature**: create a simple social feed or discussion form where users can share their thoughts, epxerience , or questions related to partyiarchal issues. This space should encouarsge dialgue and persona story-sharing - **Engagement Strategy**: Encourange participation with upvogint features, comment sections, and "top topics" that users can weigh in on. Trending disucssions will being more visibility and encourage users to enage with popular conversation - **Coimmu7nity Feel**: Fostering a sense of community is key to driving repeat engagement. people are more likely to return to the app if they see it as a space where they can connect with others who share their beliefs and goals. - Patriarchy in Media Tool - **Launch Feature**: Start with a simple "media rating" tool where users can input the name of a movie, TV show, or song and see its score on how patriarchal or gender-biased it is. Users could rate media based on criteria like representation of women, toxic masculinity, or stereotypical gender roles. - **Engagement Strategy**: Encourage users to rate media they've recently consumed and share those ratings with their friends - **Immediate Fun**: People love analyzing media they already consume, and this makes the topic of patriarchy more relevant to their daily lives - Inspirational Stories Section - **Launch Feature**: Feature short, digestible profiles of women and minorities who have successfully challenged patriarchal systems. Include both historical figures and contemporary role models. Add a button to easily share these stories. - **Engagement Strategy**: Users can share these stories on their social media platforms, spreading positive examples of anti-patriarchal work while also bringing attention to the app - **Inspiration for Action**: Stories are motivating and relatable, and they can inspire users to challenge patriarchy in their own lives - Personal Progress Tracker - **Launch Feature**: Allow users to set and track personal goals related to challenging patriarchy, such as speaking up in meetings, supporting women-owned businesses, or addressing gender bias a home. Offer small achievements and visual indicators of progress - **Engagement Strategy**: Show users how they're growing and achieving, which keeps them engaged and coming back to the app. offer rewards (digital badges) for reaching milestones - **Continuous Involvement**: Progress tracking provides a sense of accomplishment and encourages users to stay active over time - Gamified Learning Path - **Launch Feature**: Create a "levels" system where users can progress from "Novice" to "Ally" to "Activist" based on completing modules, reading resources, or taking quizzes. Each level unlocks new content or rewards - **Engagement Strategy**: Gamification motivates users to keep using the app in short bursts, accumulating knowledge and progressing in small steps - **Retention through Competition**: People love gamified experiences, especially if they can compare their progress with friends or the community - Prioritization for Fast Engagement - Quizzes & Shareable Results: Quick and viral - Weekly Challenges: Easy, action-based, and recurring - Shareable Educational Content: Social media integration boosts visibility - Media Rating Tool: Fun and related to everyday life - Discussion Forums