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.
You Obviously Like Owls.
Cuuuute!
I never gave owls (well, except Hedwig) much of a thought before I started reading here, but omcc those videos of owls enjoying being patted …
OK, time for me to go out into the horrid hot heat – later! 🙂
Owl: fuck you, I’m looking at something
Just because a person is a designated Bad Guy doesn’t mean they’re a bad person per se. Similarly, just because an entity is called a Demon doesn’t mean that it’s evil per se. Don’t you remember the moral lesson of that movie?
For the 6th+ time, media =/= real life, not anime, not movies, not TV, nor books. That aside, demons =/= bad guys, they are, by fucking definition, evil entities. Cute how you’re claiming that that’s bigotry though!
de·mon noun ˈdē-mən
Definition of DEMON
1a: an evil spirit
1b: a source or agent of evil, harm, distress, or ruin
2 usually daemon : an attendant power or spirit : genius
3 usually daemon : a supernatural being of Greek mythology intermediate between gods and men
4: one that has exceptional enthusiasm, drive, or effectiveness
Unless you’ve decided to use the Greek definition, evil is an inherent part of the word demon.
“In religions worldwide, any of various evil spirits that mediate between the supernatural and human realms. The term comes from the Greek word daimon, a divine or semidivine power that determined a person’s fate. Zoroastrianism had a hierarchy of demons, which were in constant battle with Ahura Mazda. In Judaism it was believed that demons inhabited desert wastes, ruins, and graves and inflicted physical and spiritual disorders on humankind. Christianity placed Satan or Beelzebub at the head of the ranks of demons, and Islam designated Iblis or Satan as the leader of a host of evil jinn. Hinduism has many demons, called asuras, who oppose the devas (gods). In Buddhism demons are seen as tempters who prevent the achievement of nirvana.”
In exactly zero cases are they anything you want to fuck around with.
…how the fuck did that decide I had a link?!
Not to mention that succubi feed off the life force/spiritual energy of their victims and leave behind a corruption that assures the victim a place in Hell. But hey! That there Pope became immensly wealthy and powerful! Who cares that he was damned…
Has anyone else noticed that Abnoyance writes a lot like Steele?
clairedamnit — yeah, I asked that not long ago, apparently Mr. Al didn’t start socking ’til he was banned and ABNOY’s been around since before that.
pillow in hell — hey now, eternal damnation is totally worth it for earthly riches…oh wait, I think that’s 180° from the moral of the story…
Hey now! The Pope had a few measly decades of living the high life before eternal damnation.
BUT HE GOT LAID GUYZZ!!
Is there a Muse for embroidery? Because if there is… I’d like to take up her sense of timing inspirations.
Its past midnight, and all I want to do is stitch despite the fact that my eyelids don’t want to stay open.
Hey hellkell, this made me smile, for whatever reason:
“This is so ‘splainy and assy.”
Abnoy: You choose angels by one set of rule (the Catholic Church) and demons by another (movies,and TV shows).
Conveniently both get you what you want from the subject. It’s like you make it up as you go along.
“Similarly, just because an entity is called a Demon doesn’t mean that it’s evil per se. Don’t you remember the moral lesson of that movie?”
Wait, what fucking movie? Are you still on WIR, abby? Angels are good — in a system that says demons are bad. But your references are so random. Sure, there were daimons of ancient Greece — Socrates spoke of them. “The favor of the gods,” said Socrates, “has given me a marvelous gift, which has never left me since my childhood. It is a voice which, when it makes itself heard, deters me from what I am about to do and never urges me on.”
But I don’t think you meant that either. I think you are thinking of the sexy hipster demon chicks from “Scott Pilgrim versus the World.”
Hah,obviously you people are not fans of Marvel Comics or Vertigo or even fantasy writers like Neil Gaiman, then you’d realize that different mythological pantheons can co-exist together :p And I’m shocked that despite being apparent agnostics/atheist, you people sem to stick to a Judeo-Christian worldview that condemns everything else not sanctioned by the Church as being already necessarily evil. For argument’s sake, if the supernatural realms do in fact exist, who’s to day that the bad press of one religion, Judeo-Christianity, towards other religions is even accurate at all? That’s the cultural imperialism of the Inquisition!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkIsNotEvil
Ass, I am a Gaiman fan. But he writes FICTION. I read comics — Marvel and Vertigo, but see, they’re comics. Lots of us regard religion as as man-made systems that try to regulate human behavior. But see, we don’t group fiction (TV, comics, film, books) and worldviews (or religions) as the same for obvious reasons. You’re confused. Either reference religion or reference pop culture. But the two are not the same. You were so confused by our responses that you wrote this:
“…you people (seem) to stick to a…Judeo-Christian worldview that condemns everything else not sanctioned by the Church as being already necessarily evil…”
You’re being dishonest. We’re not big fans of denouncing non-Judeo-Christian things as evil…and you know it. The problem is you can’t tell the difference between pop culture and religion — if your posts are to be taken at face value.
How does Absurd type with his head stuck so far up his arse?
Hi, pagan here, still not fucking with anything resembling demons. Also, please do see my quote above about various religious views on demons. (And we’re not all atheists btw)
Kitteh — his “understanding” of biology is probably a factor in that. There isn’t enough caffeine in the world for his shit tonight.
Yeah, no caffeine in the world for this shit tonight, Argenti. That’s why I am signing off for tonight. ‘Night everyone.
G’night Shiraz, may your sleep be filled with kittehs and other adorable animals.
🙂
Niters Shiraz, seconding what Argenti said.
Argenti – “understanding” and “Abnoy” don’t even belong in the same sentence.
Well… I don’t think people have an obligation to believe Mr Kitten is real (but maybe you didn’t mean they have either?). It’s like the religious debates we’ve had here – some people believe they’ve been in touch with God, others are atheists. Religious people can’t demand of the atheist bunch that they start believing them.
But people trying to CONVERT you, being RUDE to you, or doing ridiculous internet diagnosis – that’s shitty inexcusable behaviour.