Manosphere doofuses duped again by phony Canadian sexbot ban
NOTE: Don’t buy this model. She’s trouble.
So the Boobz are getting worked up – again – over some imaginary “proposed legislation” to ban sexbots. Vox Day, one of the esteemed elder statesmen of the right-wing of the manosphere, has resurrected an urban legend that first fooled his comrades about two years ago, reposting a “statement” of mysterious Canadian origin explaining that
provisions have been proposed for the new Human-Robot Personal Relationship Act, the first draft of which is currently being finalized.The provisions are specifically meant to target the concerns that were expressed at the roundtable that sexbots will negatively impact the pursuit for gender equality and may unduly emphasize the objectification of women as sexual objects.The suggested provisions fall into the larger framework of regulating the emerging service robot industry that will be governed by the Human-Robot Personal Relationship Act and under the direction of the Ministry of Robots and Artificial Intelligence, to be established in Ontario and other Canadian provinces and territories at the end of next year.
The main provision of this dastardly Femi-Canadian proposed legislation?
The use of sexbots in the privacy of one’s home is prohibited, unless otherwise permitted by the Ministry of Robots and Artificial intelligence or a relevant regulating agency as per the criteria outlined in the Human-Robot Personal Relationship Act.
You may wonder: Why didn’t I read anything in the papers about this Human-Robot Personal Relationship Act? Why haven’t I heard about this Ministry of Robots and Artificial Intelligence?
Well, you guessed it. Because neither of them exist. I looked into this two years ago when the story first, er, broke in the manosphere. There’s no vast feminist conspiracy to deny Canadian men (or, for that matter, women) their still-imaginary sexbots. The “statement” was evidently written as part of a law school class project on law and robotics taught by Prof. Ian Kerr at the University of Ottawa Law School.
If you Google “Human-Robot Personal Relationship Act” or “Ministry of Robots and Artificial Intelligence” you will find that literally the only people talking about this issue are MRAs and PUAs and conspiracy theorists. And some of the more gullible 4channers, though a few of them quickly figured out that the whole thing was fake. (As did the Real Doll enthusiasts.)
Vox Day, who has yet to come to this realization, draws some dire conclusions from this thing that isn’t real, declaring that the
This Canadian attempt to preemptively ban sexbots is an overt confession by feminists of both sexes concerning their belief that women have nothing significant to offer men but sexual services. Moreover, it is proof that their “pursuit for gender equality” is directly and fundamentally opposed to the most basic human freedom. …
One would think that even those only superficially acquainted with human history would realize that attempts to put the technological genie back in the bottle almost always fail, as do attempts to prevent men and women from pursuing pleasure in ways deemed illicit. But then, a near-complete ignorance of human history is required to either be a feminist or possess a genuine belief in the rainbow-tailed unicorn of equality.
Well, not so much. Though Vox proves yet again that there are few people on planet earth as gullible as the manosphere’s pompous philosophers.
NOTE: Vox isn’t the only manospherian up in arms about the evil imaginary sexbot ban; more on this tomorrow.
Posted on January 14, 2013, in antifeminism, drama kings, facepalm, gullibility, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, MRA, playing the victim, PUA, sex, sexy robot ladies, shit that never happened, straw feminists and tagged antifeminism, pick-up artists, pickup artists, PUA, sexbots. Bookmark the permalink. 510 Comments.
The unicorn is rainbow-tailed? Why did noone tell me this before?
I want some of whatever he’s been smoking/
IT’S THOSE CANADIAN FEMINAZIS AGAIN
There has to be a Pierre cartoon in here somewhere.
I’m sure Antz is shitting another brick over this.
Sorry, Vox. You don’t have the right to get laid.
Cassandra: yeah, it might be fun to be that stupid for an afternoon.
This one’s so obscure that even snopes.com doesn’t mention it.
Like, did the original My Little Pony make a big impression on him as a child? Does he think that all unicorns are gay? Enquiring minds want to know.
Of course it is! It also wears sunglasses.
Kittehs, Pierre clearly needs to field a call to Ottawa by someone who demands to speak to the head of the Ministry of Robots and Artificial Intelligence.
The Human-Robot Relationship Act… Can we make this exist so that douchebags like this guy won’t have to interact with real people?
I know! His sister had a Lisa Frank poster on her door, and his mom wouldn’t let him tear it down each time he went into a fit of rage about how privileged sis was. Thus unicorns came to symbolize the evil impact of feminism on society for him.
lightcastle: yes! I can’t wait to see Pierre’s polite Canadian confusion at that one.
Cassandra: he used to have a t-shirt from OG MLP, but his sister stole it and wouldn’t give it back, forever infesting it with girl germs, and proving that we live in a matriarchy.
He tried to rebel by being a brony, but way stymied by the lack of robotic ponies. Which is also misandry.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Priceless!
They don’t know how to Google. I’m sending them all to Internet 101!
Seriously, the “manosphere’s” deep need to see themselves as The Compleat Victims of the Worlde never fails to bring the lulz in a big way.
But has he considered the dire consequences if you could date a sexy robot?
And don’t worry, guys, I’m already on it.
Psst! Hey, guys, did you know that Sweden banned blowjobs? They totally did! Because feminism!
We don’t even have an Ministry that would be obvious for Pierre to try and refer him to.
http://pm.gc.ca/Eng/cabinet.asp
Ah… Vox Day… arrogant, petulant and ignorant… all to the power of 10.
@katz, you win for the Metropolis dance scene clip. :)
Presumably David wins first for the Metropolis screencap.
@katz: What the fuck did I just watch?
NOW just announced in their secret newsletter that we’ve succeeded in convincing Obama to mandate that 51% of STEM students be female by end of this fiscal year. Excess males will be falsely accused of rape and sent to work camps.
Is Vox Day’s real identity known? Wikipedia points me to an apparently different Vox Day.
Katz – that scene puts me in mind of the reaction to Josephine Baker’s dance in Triplets of Belleville (relevant section is at about 1.30):
(Am I the only person who couldn’t last through Metropolis through a combination of boredom and not being able to take it seriously because of the style?)
34 comments, not one saying “Dude, this is fake” (although one asks for a link to the bill). My fave:
The most basic human freedom being the freedom to stick your putz wheresoever it pleaseth you.
Is the rainbow-tailed unicorn of equality on speaking terms with the gleaming opulent horse of superior Aryan intellect?
Joanna – the woman dancing in that scene from Metropolis is the robot in the picture David used for the post.
@Kittehs: I almost made it the whole way through. Also: <3 Triplets of Belleville ^_^
@katz: Vox Day’s real name is Theodore Beale, I believe. He’s a white nationalist Christian libertarian.
“Joanna – the woman dancing in that scene from Metropolis is the robot in the picture David used for the post.”
And death playing the flute was the inevitable conclusion?
I don’t know why but I thought of The Thief of Baghdad and the scene 8.20 into this clip …
Re the post pic:
I am fluent in over three million forms from the Kama Sutra.
Also: lower right. That’s never her hand, is it?
Well, obviously. A human femur flute, no less. (How did you guys get bored with this movie?)
Falconer, no, that’s Rotwang’s hand.
(This is one of my favorite movies; I’m a huge Fritz Lang fangirl.)
Pierre: Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans, Pierre speaking. How can I help you?
Vox: Is this the Ministry of Robots and Artificial Intelligence?
Pierre: No sir, Fisheries and Oceans. I don’t believe that we have a…
Vox: Damn it! I’ve been ringing every ministry of this so called “government”, but I can’t find the Ministry of of Robots! Or should I say the Misandry of Robots! Hah, that’s a good one, I’ll write that down.
Pierre: I don’t believe that there is a Canadian ministry dedicated specifically to robots.
Vox: And there won’t be, the way things are going! What would we want robots for, if not for sex? By banning sexbots, the Ministry of Robots and AIs is putting itself out of business.
Pierre: There are so many things wrong with what you just said that I hardly…
Vox: Stop making excuses you pencil pushing bureaucrat! I demand that Canada stop banning sexbots!
Pierre: You’d like me, a representative of the Ministry of Fisheries, to tell a non-existant ministry to stop its ban on non-existant sexbots? Anything else?
Vox: Well, I’d quite like a salmon fishing license, please. Can you put me through to the Ministry of Defense?
Some people need a reality check.
This guys are just looking for EVIL everywhere.
So, quick to blame women regardless of reality.
Why on earth did my name change????
I could not tell narrative reality from fever dream, myself.
I’m going to have to watch all of Metropolis, now, because I am mightily confused how a sexy dancing robot girl could end up causing a very Christian apocalypse.
Fuck, I already started a script, but yours is good too.
@melody: WordPress hates us, and does not care to remember our names all the time. Did you switch computers?
WHY IS IT ALWAYS CANADA?!
Seriously, if I weren’t living in Texas, I would be feeling very sorry for Canadians right now. Do maple leaves spread delusions of victimhood? (That’s what Canadians eat, right? At Tim Horton’s house?)
Literally all the same thing.
@ katz – feel free to mix and match.
The guy’s name is Rotwang?! How many professors have had to stop the movie until the class can compose itself?
I was hoping Bodsy would write a Pierre script… I loved the ending!
I think that red pill they always talk about is really a hit of acid.
@Falconer: Well, it’s pronounced “RotVANG” in German. It means “red cheek.” :-)
Tulgey – Canada can be PROUD to have the MRAs running scared!
@titianblue: I thought I heard the woman in the scene immediately prior to the one you pointed out call the guy in black Jafar; and after that, I could not get the idea out of my head that the Sultan, Jasmine and Jafar from Disney’s Aladdin look rather strikingly similar to those three from that movie.
@Stuffed Fantod: Well, yeah, *I* know how to pronounce it (roughly) but I’m not ashamed to admit it tickled my inner twelve-year-old.
Not that it makes much of a difference in a silent film. But I think The Man Who Laughs has it worse in the unfortunate-translation department.
Whoa… an anti-MRA disinformation campaign?
Those krauts are craftier than I thought.
That’s what they’re called, right? Krauts? I’m pretty sure it’s krauts.
Katz: Theodore Beale is the right Vox Day.
Krauts are Germans, my lot. :) Canadians are Canucks.
When I’m in a bad mood I’m a sour Kraut.
I just realized I’ve never seen “Metropolis” in English translation. I think I may do that this evening. Thanks, Dave and all!
Vox the pox I call Theodore, if you use his real name he bans you, ha! He also doesn’t believe in evolution, or immunization or female suffrage or black right etc etc he’s basically a Christian male supremacist. But the review on this is rotton of his Christian video game is hysterically funny. I’ll try find the link x
Wow, look what other misandry is going on in Canada. They couldn’t print it if it weren’t true.
Synchronicity! I was just looking at that movie on IMDB. I got there because Conrad Veidt was in the first Thief of Baghdad, and I was looking up that because of titianblue.
Huh. The Wiki didn’t mention any MRA stuff and only mentions the race issues in passing.
And grr, he’s hard to draw.
Of all the countries to suggest would implement a ban on sex bots in private homes…
I wonder what would happen if we made Vox Day watch Metropolis? I mean, if this is what he comes up with when he hasn’t been exposed to trippy movies…
katz, you can draw him! Focus on the soulless dead eyes and receding hairline. (Remember when someone mentioning his receding hairline made Tom Martin lose his shit?)
I feel like this is a sign of how poorly MRAs understand their fellow men. If you offered a bunch of Canadian dudes their own robot surely they’d opt for a hockeybot first. Priorities, people!
RE: cloudiah
Last I recall, Tom Martin’s shit was singularly easy to lose.
The best part:
“The ministry of robots and artificial intelligence”.
Out of the roughly 20 ministries, we would have a robot minister. (I guess that follows Day’s vision of Canada being a big commie dystopia too)
Yes, the wispy hair sticking up from that ebb-tide hairline, the way he manages to look pudgy even though he isn’t, and those miserable creepy dead eyes and mouth that looks surly without being turned down.
:D
You guys certainly provide vivid descriptions. Trouble is making him look different than Tom.