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.
That’s it exactly, Dvarghundspossen! 🙂
Kitteh — hence the scare quotes! 🙂
Gods has he pissed me off well and good, and that takes bloody work. Apparently implying/stating that chromosomes/biology = gender is a shortcut to that.
FYI ABNOY, chromosomes =/= gender either.
How the heck I missed those scare quotes is going to remain one of life’s mysteries … ::scratches head::
Your brain took them as assumed and thus ignored them? But don’t scratch your own head, scratch a kitteh. 🙂
LOL or scratch a Mr Kitteh. He’s been totally indoctrinated by the furry fiends. Said this morning that if I hadn’t had cat furs on my clothes it’d be a Crime Against Nature.
Either way, scratch a kitteh for me though? I’d risk waking my mother if I tried scratching her cat (kitteh sleeps in her room) and seeing how she has to get up in two hours to make my twenty-fucking-four year old brother breakfast…
Yeah, I’m not waking her up to pet a kitteh, that will not end in me being less annoyed.
Tell you what, I’ll go scratch a kitteh for you and you do something nice like say hello to the fish for me?
Meanwhile, here’s Mads showing how a grass pot for cats really works.
“Aren’t you a cute little clown loach? Yes you are!” Has been engaged in. Yes they’re smart enough to realize I’m looking at them, and depending how playful they’re feeling, follow my fingers…between the weather, and the hour, they’re not really paying attention (still such cute little fishies!)
As for Mads, if it fits, it sits.
“If it fits, it sits” LOL very true!
Scritch scritch scritch tickle chin “This is from Argenti” has been received graciously and we have deigned to purr. 🙂
Speaking of weather, I have to figure out a way to send excess heat to them as has excess cold via the intertubes. Way to make a fortune.
Bit of a nasty moment tonight, there was a massive smoke plume visible from the train as I was coming home. It’s from a metal recycling plant that caught fire in the heat (petrol still in a car wreck, apparently). And a couple of kilometres north there was a grass fire threatening houses – deliberately lit. Not a threat to my home and both under control, but that’s nasty, it’s the closest bushfire season has come to my place.
Wtf kind of asshole lita a fire during brushfire season? Someone who’s every step should be filled with Legos.
Sending heat/cold via the Internet would be one hell of a business. And awww, I got a purr!
We seem to have far too many of that sort of asshole. So many of our bushfires are deliberately lit.
You did, you did got a purr! 😀
The sum total of the last day and a half? I’m ashamed for our species (well, most of it anyways) — that’s just the shit icing on the shit cake right there.
And on that purring note, I’m going to call it a night while I have some faith left in humanity. G’night!
Goodnight! Dream of sweet kittehs and dancing clown loaches!
I’m pretty sure Al was socking long before his initial banning. Whenever he was placed on mod or keyboard smashing in rage or whatever, his sock Dad 2 Boys would show up.
Stay safe, kitteh.
More things Abnoy knows jack shit about: basic biology. (MOST PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT THEIR OWN CHROMOSOMES ARE. I don’t know my own goddamn chromosomes. I can make a good guess, but I could be wrong.)
Actually, I seem to recall the demon Asmodeus being a protector of battered women, and I’m pretty sure a demon was invoked to inhabit the Golem of Prague, who did good for the local Jews for as much as a decade. But somehow, I doubt Abnoy wants to bang the Golem of Prague. (For one thing, the Golem was ace. He wouldn’t be interested.)
Looks like the fires in my area are under control, there’s no new info since last night. But in the east of the state there are towns under threat. 🙁
I hadn’t heard that about the Golem of Prague. I thought he was animated by the word in his head.
In a Certain Popular Role-Playing Game, golems are animated by elemental spirits, which are Neutral and the only moral dimension to it is in binding a mindless yet independent being to do your bidding (use it too much, and instant karma’s gonna get you).
*words in his head
@Kitteh
That’s a stay safe from me as well, if I could send you some of our snow to cool things down a bit I would. But unfortunately I don’t think they take weather systems by airmail.
RE: Falconer
The golem was animated through the word inscribed on his forehead, but I heard the spirit was borrowed from a demon, Joseph Sheida or something.
Thanks for the stay-safe wishes, all! I think the fires in our area are out. There are bad fires in East Gippsland, though, about 200km from Melbourne, and one person’s been killed there.
Good news to hear about your immediate area, sorry to hear about the loss of life. Especially when you said that some of the fires were/appeared to be deliberately lit.
So many of our fires are caused by arsonists these days, it’s like a bloody epidemic. There’s not enough Lego in the world to fill their shoes.
Speaking of Lego, apparently there’s a huge Lego exhibition on in Melbourne at the moment!