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.
I want a BrodeurBot so that I can practice shots during the commercial breaks.
Why would feminists want to ban sexbots? If they don’t have human intelligence, then they are just very fancy sex toys. If they do have human intelligence, then they have the same relationship rights as humans.
RE: Rotwang – when I read that I thought it was a risque version of one of Luna Lovegood’s conspiracy theories…
Found the link if anyone feels like giggles at vox’s expense?
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/game-reviews/war-heaven.php
@ katz
Isn’t Vox Day’s face a bit more adult looking? Tom looks like a round-cheeked little baby that’s been aged 40 years using CGI.
Creative writing, the only reason I could think of femists being anti sex bots would be if it tuned out that men using them became more violent to women. However men that use a sex bot probably wouldn’t be having relationships with humans anyway.
Katz – you could try the picture of him from a couple of years back that’s on American Loons. The dopey hairdo and evening dress are … different. And he looks even sulkier.
He looks like the undead version of the singer from the Pet Shop Boys.
@Yoyo
Well, there would be some robot/machinery fetishists who would buy them and wouldn’t be a danger to anyone. Some of them do have relationships with humans, and will continue to do so after the invention of the true android. (Humans are more huggable than robots.)
And if they did make arseholes more violent and misogynistic, then that would be worrying, but we don’t know that yet…
@ Kitteh’s
Well at least tonight’s nightmares will have some original content. They’d become rather dull and repetitive as of late.
(Does he live in Uncanny Valley?)
1) Yes, we would get hockey bots.
2) The Man Who Laughs always creeps me out a bit when I’m like, “It’s the Joker!”
3) I do like that despite our appalling Conservative government, we are still the feminist bogeyman in the MRA mind.
“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”
No Vox, I think that might be what *you* believe. What feminists believe is quite different.
“One can make a reasonable case against sexbots … it is also the case against abortion, artificial birth control, and casual sex.”
o.O So wait, you’re against sexbots then? MISANDRY!
CWS – if he doesn’t, he should. (I don’t even want to think what a CGI version of him would look like.)
We could totally connect this back to the “ripoff vs. homage” question. Conrad Veidt does a brilliant job, though, doesn’t he?
OMG HE DOES.
They were separated at birth, and then Vox was raised by Satan in a castle full of vampires.
For some reason, my brain seems far less interested in the concept of sexbots than in parentbots. My brain is an odd place.
But no one can fault the company.
Almost, Cassandra! Instead, he was raised by Robert Beale, who is one of the bigger non-avian loons in the state of Minnesota.
It seems I am the only one who remembers the gleaming opulent horse of superior Aryan intellect.
I am unsure whether I ought to be sad, or not.
Please please please use the dopey haircut from American Loons. Please. Please.
Are we sure Mr Beale isn’t a vampire? Because as soon as I clicked on that link this is what started playing in my head.
Falconer, you are not. And its competitor for funniest MRA quote is relevant, too.
Also, DAMMIT NOW I HAVE TO REDRAW HIS HAIR. Just when I spent all that time getting his receding hairline juuuuust right. I’m never going to get this done!
Nah, someone’s already got all the post hoc, ergo copyright infringement nailed down for Batman. If you did it now, it would just be a blatant swipe /snark
No Falconer, I remember. Who could forget? That gleaming horse is burned into the neurons of my brain for eternity.
Is that gleaming opulent horse related to the rainbow-tailed unicorn?
*reads*
Wow, the red pill is one hell of a drug.
Gleaming opulent horse, soaring through the skies, delivering the racists all around the world!
Holy crap, being new, I had not encountered the Gleaming Opulent Horse before. Wow!
Someone needs to spray-paint the Gleaming Opulent Horse of Aryan Intellect and the Rainbow-Tailed Unicorn of Equality on the side of a van with some dragons and Harry Potter playing a guitar.
yessssssss
Yeah ministry of Robots…I’d be hella excited to have one here!
Do you know what got all this started? Some legislation about computer anime (or would affect the genre) that restricts sex act between animated characters to being AT LEAST 18 or be declared child porn. I think it was part of a much larger bill filled with a variety of things. Normally we don’t hear much about omnibus bills but any talk about restricting the freedoms of mens boners…
Oh yeah, Katz is working on a comic! The sexbots, the Canadian connection- it’s almost like the whole thing was created and ordained by the Rainbow-tailed Equality Unicorn in the Sky as gift just for us!
That’s what I asked on the last page, I asked if they were on speaking terms, and no one seemed to notice, therefore I went all The Cure on people, which I probably shouldn’t have :(
Oh god, didn’t we just have the Chobits conversation?!
What a piece of work is troll,
How inferior in reason,
How finite in faculties
In form and moving how contemptuous,
In action, like a mosquito,
In apprehension, how like a Lego!
@Yoyo: That ‘War in Heaven’ video game is amazing. No wonder he doesn’t want anyone knowing his real name.
@katz: I love how the space hero is all,
@LBT: Thanks, now I have to go listen to the Hair soundtrack. I wasn’t planning on doing anything for the next 90 minutes, anyway.
It just clicked that Pierre’s girlfriend is the one proposing, and I just went
*fans self with hands* *squees*
Perhaps, for scansion, and alliterative callback I might have gone for cog, one of my partners suggests log.
Somewhere on teh internets there’s a pic of vox day with a flaming sword.
…. Nah, I’m going to leave the Bard filking to others, my technique is weak.
RE: Falconer
Hey, it’s because of that song and Coraline that I remembered the lines as well as I did. And go for it, pecunium, it’s been ages since I saw Hamlet so my memory for the flow is weak.
Falconer – mea culpa!
No worries! I was actually thinking me going all PAY ATTENTION TO MEEE was the thing to apologize for.
I think the rest of is pretty much spot on. But some edits.
What a piece of work is troll,
How inferior in reason,
How finite in faculty
In form and moving how contemptible
In action, like a bedbug
In apprehension, how like a log!
But Falconer, you use The Cat as your gravatar – of COURSE you should be “pay attention to MEEEEEEEE”!
Crap: I blew the scansion:
What a piece of work is troll,
How inferior in reason,
How finite in faculty
In form and moving how contemptible
In action, how like a bedbug
In apprehension, how like a log!
Bedbug seems weak, but it gives a weak rhyme,and fits the scansion of the meter.
hehe, shakespearean sporking and discussion of classic black and white films mixed with making fun of obnoxious misogynists. i wonder why i stopped commenting to this place. i guess because i never felt i had anything to add to the conversation… but troll baiting looks like so much fun :< hello everyone!
I feel like a lightweight, but I can still make people laugh.
Thanks, pecunium. Now, to fixate my attention on finding something for bedbug/log that rhymes better…
Hi person with the best nym on the Internet (aka dire sloth)!
Fritz Lang’s early masterpiece–Metropolis–recently re-released with newly discovered scenes.
@falconer
I didn’t switch computers.
I double posted once with Melody and once with another name.
Wordpress is a jerk.
I will remember to make sure my user name is correct.
You’re no lightweight! And you make people laugh. Win/win. :)
It’s not like we have a wittiness entrance exam around here.
That reminds me of the IQ detector I wanted installed when I worked at the Museum. If you didn’t trigger it, you didn’t get in. Would have made customer service a lot easier.
I need a laugh so I’m going down
Down to the thread that I left last night
I need a laugh so I’m going down
David could you ban the sock
David Futrelle ban the Pell
Happiness is a warm troll (flame flame burn burn)
Happiness is a warm troll cloudiah (flame flame burn burn)
When I see you in the thread
And I feel my fingers on my keyboard
I know nobody can do me no harm because
Happiness is a warm troll (flame flame burn burn)
Happiness is a warm yes it is
Troooooooooll!
What is the answer to a question on the last page?
@Kitteh, is that a detector that detects a certain level of IQ, or just an IQ period? If the latter, did you have a lot of mindless entities trying to get into that museum? Like zombies or something o.O
LOL I think the answer is “yes to both” with the museum visitors, dire sloth! Some of ‘em, I swear …
Whoop, hey, welcome to the commentariat, dire sloth! There’s a name whereby hangs a tale.
Hi dire sloth!
Tech dept’s also need that IQ detectors, for both the staff and the clients. Honestly, I had more co-workers who were idiots than customers, but I was working at a university, so students had a certain level of “not an idiot” built in (don’t get me started on the doctors though!)
My favourite idiot was the one who came up when I was at the foyer info desk once. The building held the State Library – walk straight in from the main door – and the Museum – turn right, buy tickets at the big admissions desk, keep going.
This bloke walked up from the Library and said, “There’s nothing in there but books!”
“Of course not, sir, that’s the Library. The Museum is through that door” (pointing at door about three yards away).
Bloke walks out of building into the street.
Colleague at admissions desk, who heard all this, rings me and says, “That idiot bought a ticket from me an hour ago.”
I belatedly realized that I should say, “Thank you, Kitteh’s,” for telling me I make people laugh. Affirmation’s a good thing, but I swear I’m not trolling for pats.
Did he have a magnet strapped to his head???
Didn’t think you were, Falconer, and you’re welcome! :)
CWS, maybe he should have done! :D
G’night, all!