If you’re havin’ robogirl problems I feel bad for you, son!

Excellent, ozy and bagelsan! Now I must contact the aliens, which might take a while, but will be totally worth this!

Viscaria, if you’ve got reservations, just come to the munch. Totally casual, just remember not to unmask the aliens or out the kinksters. 😉

@Ami: DAT ASS.

yay! 😀

Platinum Vagina will totally be the name for my band, if I ever get around to forming one.

And I might attend an alien mixer, as long as there isn’t any Pak’ma’ra’ porn.

These sorts of romances in fiction (like human/mermaid or man, different animal species, etc) always confuse me. I mean, is it like a Data “I am… fully functional” kind of thing?

With merpeople it varies. Some old-school merpeople had two fish tails in place of their legs, with fully human genitalia between them. Some merpeople have mammalian lower halves (dolphins or seals – think Madonna’s “Cherish” video), so they’re compatible, even if positioning would be a little tricky. Other versions have the legs joining together lower down.

As for other species…well, that varies, too. I remember reading a porn comic that showed a lamia (beautiful woman up top, snake below) directing her lover to “under the split scale”. Maybe people figure “standard” mermaids are like that?

…which raises a bigger question: if she can form a platinum vagina, she could just as easily form a platinum penis, so what exactly is it that makes her a woman-who-must-be-left-behind?

I wonder, which is scarier for MRAs: a woman or an androgynous person?

@Xanthe:

I agree. There’s no reason whatsoever to be afraid of an androgynous person, simply for the sake of them being androgynous. But, as you point out: I think that the fears and irrational hatred towards women makes it more likely to happen.

Given the potential for a “woman” (fictional metal robot) to grow a “penis” (fictional platinum genitals due to shape-shifting powers), I’m idly contemplating which is scarier and more likely to get an irrational reaction/outburst/abuse.

Xanthe:

There’s no reason an MRA should be transphobic to androgynous people, except that the sort of irrational feelings towards women make it much more likely for them to have similar views towards anyone appearing feminine.

For all we say they’re not pro-male, they’re anti-female, that’s not quite accurate, since their irrational hatred extends to anyone who isn’t male.

New innovative technology always has problems that have to be debugged. I should surprise nobody that newly manufactured (or grown) robocuties occasionally will have to be reprogrammed to be more sensitive to their owner’s wishes and have a higher rate of positive conditioning reinforcement where compliance and obeidience is concerned.

There will always be a few that can escape the lab (or the manufacturing plant) giving the appearance of functionality and utility, but having hidden compliance and positive response defects! That’s what debugging (time consuming, expensive, and inconvenient) does.

Live and learn. And then buy the cybercutie or wifebot of your choice, tailor made to YOUR personality and masculinity!

Behold our glorious future:

I’m just going to paraphrase Henry Higgins here: “By rights, he should be taken out an hung/For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.” That’s some serious grammatical carnage being wreaked, there.