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.
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.
http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2012/241/b/3/rainbow_dash___dash_with_it_by_mysteriouskaos-d5cu0zq.png
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?