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Manosphere doofuses duped again by phony Canadian sexbot ban

NOTE: Don't buy this model. She's trouble.
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.

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CassandraSays
11 years ago

I almost want to start posting Twitter updates about imaginary feminist laws just to see his response, but that would be mean.

katz
11 years ago

do puzzles and make terrible physics puns

If a big cat and a small cat are on a roof, which one falls off first?

abnoy
abnoy
11 years ago

I imagine a fallen angel would be a naughty bad girl 😉 like a soiled dove hehehe but you know, as the Mormons say, we will become as gods ourselves.

Polliwog
Polliwog
11 years ago

I dunno, which? 🙂

PennyDreadful
PennyDreadful
11 years ago

The one that hits at the same time o_O?

Argenti Aertheri
11 years ago

The small cat is a little moron? Not sure if that’s right considering I’ve always heard it with morons, not cats.

pecunium
11 years ago

katz: *hunted the mammoth voice* I counted the stars on a Confederate flag for you!

You could have asked me (I assume you mean the battle flag of present popularity, not the actual flag of the CSA). It’s 13, one for every state in the CSA.

They should have known they were doomed, using that as a talisman for battles.

pecunium
11 years ago

Abnoy: I think it is a valid concern among contemporary heterosexual human males

Ignoring the questionable validity of the first two words… the rest of that statement is patently false.

I, for one, am a heterosexual human male. None of the blather about you being terrified feminists are going to turn your sexbots against men is true, so far as I am concerned.

If you want to fuck a machine, go to town. Buy a real doll, get some powered armatures made and install a fleshlight, or line it with teasel, or whatever floats your boat.

Feminism ain’t gonna care.

Now, if they are sapient, then feminism will care; because sapient beings (hell, even sentient ones) ought not be raped.

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Pecunium – I read that as “line it with tinsel”.

Christmas sexbots?

pecunium
11 years ago

Abnoy: One does not enslave angels, they willingly serve from the sheer joy of altruistic service to others as they are perfect beings of pure love that`s the Catholic Christian theology.

And it’s also Catholic Theology that women aren’t angels.

Just in case you were confused.

pecunium
11 years ago

CWS: To be fair, I once made my parents throw out a book because it depicted penguins and polar bears in the same place, and was therefore completely untrustworthy as a fact source…

Did you throw out your parents?

No?

Then it’s a little different. You were (and seem to remain) wiser than Theodore Beale.

pecunium
11 years ago

nerdypants: christianity was some high-grade patriarchal bullshit, but wow, all of my prejudices just got confirmed.

That may be what Abnoy means, but it is, by no means, the “christian” definition of the word. As I see it used it means, one who makes my life easier, by helping do things the other needs. But it’s much more a mutialism (depends on the egalitarianism level of the church/couple).

PennyDreadful
PennyDreadful
11 years ago

“or line it with teasel”

Like fuller’s vagina dentata >.<?

Shiraz
Shiraz
11 years ago

“I imagine a fallen angel would be a naughty bad girl like a soiled dove hehehe, but you know, as the Mormons say, we will become as gods ourselves.”

Um, yeah. Abnoy’s not a real person, he’s a troll that actually wants us to tell him how dumb he is.

In any event, according to catholicism, fallen angels — like lucifer, generally wake up in hell.

pecunium
11 years ago
pecunium
11 years ago

Abnoy: I imagine a fallen angel would be a naughty bad girl like a soiled dove hehehe but you know, as the Mormons say, we will become as gods ourselves.

You could try looking at Catholic Theology on the subject.

Seraph
Seraph
11 years ago

@ pillowinhell

Even the nonfallen ones will smite the shit out of you if they’re ordered to, or if they’re disrespected.

Seraph
Seraph
11 years ago

I imagine a fallen angel would be a naughty bad girl 😉 like a soiled dove hehehe

…yeah.

You know what? Leviathan is female in some legends. Let’s just leave you two crazy kids alone together and see how that works out.

katz
11 years ago

I dunno, which?

The small one. It has a smaller mew.

Argenti Aertheri
11 years ago

ABNOY wants to fuck (around with) demons? Well that’s a whole new level of stupid, even for him.

My night is just one slice of stupid pie after another, and yet, ABNOY just managed to take the cake…err, um, pie…

Mixing my pastry metaphors >.<

LBT
LBT
11 years ago

All I have to say about the Catholic talk here is: Lilith, motherfuckers. LILITH.

Also, I’m uncomfortable with the IQ-test thing being mentioned. I had to take one recently for the government, and the whole concept of intelligence puts a bad taste in my mouth. I’m glad that thread seems to be dropped.

And regarding the whole discussion of personhood, I actually have personal experience with this as a member of a multiple system. Professionals actually do discuss whether people like me are actually people and whether we have the right to refuse having our existence destroyed through nonconsensual integration. I have the joyous fun of reading scholarly articles in shit like “Journal of Trauma & Dissociation” about whether I have the right to call myself a person or not.

My favorite quote on the subject: “Some members of the Guidelines Task Force recommend that clinicians avoid using terms such as ‘people,’ ‘persons,’ or other terms that might convey or reinforce a belief that the alternate identities are truly separate individuals.” from http://www.isst-d.org/education/Adult%20DD%20Treatment%20Guidelines-ISSTD-JTD-2005.pdf

This isn’t some academic hypothetical here. This is ME. My EXISTENCE. My life. I went to a hearing just last week where the person believed my existence was a sign of severe mental illness. It didn’t matter if I was doing anything wrong, just that I was HERE.

This is a pretty sore point with me.

katz
11 years ago

LBT, I agree with you about IQ tests; even setting aside the testing-bias issue, there are creepy-weird implications to denying ordinary things to people because of their intelligence (as with any other more or less immutable trait).

cloudiah
11 years ago

LBT, I am so sorry about that hearing. Crap. Let us know if we can help in any way, okay?

PennyDreadful
PennyDreadful
11 years ago

“I feel like it must be really confusing to be a hetero male misogynist.”

I tend to suspect they *aren’t* hetero; except that the only people they may despise more than women are non-hetero men. And yes, very very confused.

LBT
LBT
11 years ago

RE: katz

Yeah, definitely.

RE: cloudiah

It’s okay, just apparently it upset me more than I thought. At least it explains the fucking plethora of nightmares recently. I’ll be all right, just… THIS IS WHY I MAKE EDUCATIONAL COMICS, PEOPLE. So I don’t have to put up with this goddamn shit more than I have to.

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