Oh dear. Our friends the Men’s Rights Redditors have discovered Mr.Ian Ironwood’s little treatise on sexbots. While some are a bit skeptical about the reality of the (non-existent) Human-Robot Personal Relationship Act — more skeptical, anyway, than Ironwood or Vox Day before him — this doesn’t stop the regulars from offering all sorts of distressing and/or hilarious opinions on the subject.
For example, OuiCrudites suggests that women have made sexbots inevitable by generally being such a pain in the ass, and MaunaLoona compares female sexuality to the railroad monopolies of the 19th century:
In a later comment, OuiC elaborates on his “most women are shitty” thesis:
MaunaLoona, meanwhile, agrees with Ironwood that developing the AI for sexbots won’t be a big challenge, because the average American woman is dumb and has a terrible personality.
A Canadian Redditor steps in to point out that the alleged “legislation” isn’t real. Oh, and to suggest that many “females” can’t think rationally.
Geigerwasright concludes that men will find sexbots preferable to women because the women of today aren’t providing them with “love, loyalty [or] kindness.”
So watch out, ladies! Unless you clean up your act, and quick, the good men of the Men’s Rights subreddit will abandon you en masse in favor of sex with inanimate objects that pretend to like them.
And this is apparently supposed to be a bad thing for women.
Clauderoughly postulates that sexbots for women will never be that popular, because what women really want is to get pregnant, so they can live the good life off of child support:
That’s a bit weird, as all the women I’ve had sex with have seemed quite interested not getting pregnant from sex. Indeed, some have had devices inserted into their bodies by doctors to prevent such an occurence.
The world that MRAs live in is a strange and scary place. I prefer the real world. It’s much cheerier.
NOTE: The horrible picture at the top of this post was borrowed from Craftastrophe.
See, what we need here is a pipeline. A pipeline of women. Then we can transport them cheaply all over the country, bringing the average cost of women down so that men can afford them.
Economics!
a pipeline?? then what am I gonna do with all these binders???
Why do women refuse to see themselves as consumer goods? Bitches.
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not even wrong…
though OuiCrudites makes much more sense if you substitute “my ex” for “some (not all) women”. Then it’s obvious that he’s saying “She didn’t like that I expected her to change to suit me, and she acted like she was a person with a right to have preferences and a past. And then when I fucked up she told me so and that made me feel bad and it’s not fair!”
I would be in favor of the decriminalization of prostitution if it served to protect women and children who are being abused and exploited by pimps and criminals — but for some reason I think MaunaLoona doesn’t give a shit about 14 year old runaways being forced into prostitution.
I’m laughing at the thought of accents screwing with the AI of the sex robots. Isn’t voice recognition software for computers still only around 80% accurate?
“What would you like to do”
“Oral sex”
“Sorry, aural text is not an option. Please choose from the following menu…”
LOL
Also, I love that David kindly corrected “giegerwasright’s” name for him.
The women will fit in the pipeline better if you take them out of the binders. You can put them back in binders to store them in warehouses until their sold.
This guy has really given this some thought:
Didn’t CassandraSays make that point yesterday?
Kind of off topic: I don’t get the point of people saying things like ‘In a sane world [such and such would be true]’, or ‘if only they didn’t all act that way, then everything would be fine’.
No, this is the world you got. Deal with it and stop making excuses. If you can’t find anyone to get along with, then ,maybe, just maybe, it’s you that’s the problem.
(note: I’m not saying people shouldn’t try to change these, fight for their rights, etc. It’s just this particular phrasing gets on my nerves).
And being hardware and software, the sex robot is going to come with a 36-page densely typed EULA that no MRA is going to read, but they will have to agree with before the sex robot activates.
Eventually, they will need to deal with customer service because something has gone wrong with the sex robot and they think everything problematic will be covered by the warranty
“I need you to fix my sex robot.”
“Hello sir, can you let me know the problem.”
“I switch it on and it doesn’t work.”
“Have you used the device in any wet area, like a bathroom, without inserting the optional ‘wet area cover for electronics’?”
“Errrr… yes…”
“Sorry sir, on p. 1192 on the end user license agreement, section 493, subsection 49, you will find that use in a wet area without the cover voids the warranty.”
[user hangs up]
^ they’re ^
Oops.
If they do create robots that can do it all in the distant future (if I somehow am still around to see it), I hope they do male ones first just to see the manosphere reaction. Honestly, I don’t know if they would be pissed that women and gay guys got to have sexy times with robots instead of them or panicked that ebil females are out to replace all the menz. Either way, it would be hilarious.
OuiCrudites is a real gem, isn’t he?
“Women could be SO MUCH MORE to men than sex toys! They could be decorative objects! Unpaid housekeepers! Combination broodmare/nannies (also unpaid)! And the damn bitches JUST WON’T DO IT!!!”
Amusing how you occasionally get ideas that also turn up in feminism turning up over there…
Yes, MRAs, that’s right! And also throws them in the sewer if it notices they don’t match up to the idealised view, which… oh dear. You haven’t quite spotted that part yet, have you?
AAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAH! Oh sweet motherfuck Jesus pogo stick AAAAAAAH!
*goes to actually READ the post, instead of just look at the picture*
OK, so, for me, to get sex, they’d have to be kind, caring, good friends, respect my boundaries, provided intelligent and humourous conversation, be willing to please me during sex, and I have to be attracted to them. Of course, I will endeavour to provide the same.
Is this really too hard??? Because most of the people I know, regardless of gender, can do them…
@LBT
I think a skateboard forms the head and body…
How much do you want to bet that the guy who thinks we all want babies all the time also complained about “sluts wanting the government to pay for their birth control” before the last US election?
If a robot could be built that could walk, talk, and handle the fine manipulation required to be a functioning sexbot, why would businesses not purchase these robots without the sex functions to do all sorts of low skilled jobs currently being handled by humans? I imagine in a world with robots that could do all of the things that these imaginary sexbots could do there would be an unemployment crisis that would dwarf the economic upheaval of the early industrial revolution.
I wish our society was set up in a way that meant “Robots doing all the menial jobs!” meant “Yay, post-scarcity economy!” not “Oh no, everyone is unemployed!”
RE: Kiwi Girl
Quite right, about the old language software. My husband had a pronounced regional accent, and because of it, he managed to make some quick money doing voice stuff for a test program. Nothing much, but they DESPERATELY needed more test subjects, and his accent is unusual for the region.
Plus, I remember the old story about a language software program that was given to cops in Georgia. Unfortunately, it wasn’t made for Georgian accents, and failed miserably.
I agree MorkaisChosen, unfortunately it is not.
If ever there was an argument to never diet again, it’s the guarantee of never having to go on a date, much less accidentally sleep with, a Men’s Rights subredditer.
*goes to buy potato chips*
Welcome to capitalism.
Thanks, but I’ve lived here a while – I just sometimes pine for places I can only imagine.