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.
Happy birthday and/or belated birthday to anyone in that camp! (Well, I guess that is sort of everyone…)
Interesting how men not having control of women’s sexuality equals men not having control of their own sexuality in these MRAs’ minds…
Is it just me, or is their whole line of reasoning as follows:
1.) Women are bitches and whores.
2.) Some men buy sex toys for themselves.
3.) Experimental robots are getting deeper into the uncanny valley.
4.) ?????
5.) Sexbots!
It’s shades of the underpants elves with similarly dubious premises and almost entirely absent reasoning, but Sexbots! at the end instead of Profit!
Happy birthday, all you birthday-type people! 🙂
Internet birthday cake for all!
nom nom nom
Any time someone mentions internet birthday cake, that reminds me of one of my favorite drawings by the talented Myoo:
http://artistryforfeminismandkittens.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/a-birthday-octopus-by-myoo-for-whataboutthemoonz/
Cuuute!
Happy early/late birthday LBT and Xantë!
Also octopus!
Also I wanted to share this hilarious headline from the Guardian about USian politics: Republicans gather at former plantation to discuss minority outreach
Shaenon you are exactly right. I find the weirdest thing about MRAs is their TOTAL lack of self awareness. Women don’t like me – they must be bitches, some women get good jobs- they must be cheating and bitches, my sex like is not good – women aren’t doing it right, the bitches me need sex bots!
Cloudia, that is priceless! Just like santoram’s ranch called niggerhead, and he wondered why minorities don’t vote rethug. 🙁
Happy pre and post birthdays to everyone!!! It’s my birthday today, too, so I’m glad to be in illustrious company!
About the sexbots, I think we should help the MRM to publicize their desire for them. It will inspire countless girls to choose to go into science/technology/engineering/etc. to develop these as quickly as possible, and that will solve the problem with not enough girls choosing to go into these fields.
Sorry
Last comment stuck in moderation, cloudia your comment was priceless. Just
Ike Rick santorum kept a family ranch called n,,,,,gerhead, and wondered why no minorities would vote rethug.
Happy birthday Rahu!
Re: your sexbot idea, I think it’s brilliant.
Thanks, Argenti Aertheri!!! 🙂
Isn’t the surest way to pass a Turing test to behave irrationally?
Happy birthday, birthday havers! 🙂
It is my partner’s birthday on Monday. I will enjoy hanging out with him on this, one of the last birthdays we will be able to celebrate together, before he replaces me with a sex bot.
Ok, so, the homemade sex doll.
I can’t get it out of my head that it’s part skateboard, and I’m now imagining that the guy who uses it keeps having it wheel away from him with every thrust and he’s chasing it on his hands and knees and his housemate’s just going “dude, if you put as much effort into dating as you do into fucking the bag of socks on wheels you’d be celebrating your third menseversary with an awesome lady right now.”
Happy birthday Rahu and Viscaria’s Partner!
Was the word clusterfuck coined to describe the Republican party?
All of my comments come with extra commas, free of charge XD.
I’m kind of tempted to break out the Lego Mindstorms and build a sex robot and make a video of it. It would probably scare them.
@Cthulu’s Intern- there’s this fabulous video/ set piece at the Museum of Sex in NYC of robots who have sexytimes. It’s nifty and kind of steampunk.