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.
Depends on the costs. In 1995 I had a summer job at a sausage factory (a literal one, that is). At this job, you spent 1,5 hours pushing sheep guts into a machine. Switched places at the machine, and spent the next 1,5 hours or so cutting off sausages coming out of it that had the wrong size. Switched places, and then 1,5 hours again hanging strings of sausages on a metal stick. Rinse, lather and repeat throughout the day.
This job is STILL done by human beings.
The thing is, you get really shitty pay for doing this job. Because of unemployment (and this factory is way out in the countryside, where I grew up, and where unemployment rates are consistently higher than in the cities) they still get people to do this job. Obviously it would be possible to have robots do it with today’s technology, and it was probably possible in the nineties as well. My simple hypothesis is that the kind of robots you’d need (who could count to twenty, since that was how many sausages ought to go in each stick, and switch positions, since the sticks you hung sausages on varied in height, could recognise “wrong size or shape” in a sausage, and could move about to get the barrell of sheep guts and had the fine motor skills required to push them into the machine – the robots would obviously not need to switch places by the machine but could stand at the same station all day, but still) would simply be more expensive than low-paid proletarians. And that may be true about lots of soul-killing jobs.
Although I also wish we could live in Star Trek utopia.
Yeah, but you just know most of us would end up as redshirts.
Zapatista-style small-scale anarchism worldwide if we get to post-scarcity, that’d be my plan.
We won’t get to post-scarcity.
🙁
Kittehs, how are you going temperature-wise? It’s 7:22 pm and 43C here, and got to a historical high of 46C earlier today.
Is the “(supposedly) laissez-faire markets requiring ludicrous measures means laissez-faire’s the way to go” thing with railways an Atlas Shrugged thing somehow?
lowquacks, I heard just this minute that Sydney had its hightest temp in 150 years! That’s awful.
It’s nice here now, around 20 or so. It was 30 at 6am – thought it felt too warm heading for the train! Going to be civilised tomorrow, 22. Good thing, too, Mum and I are going to see War Horse.
Hey, if we go Zapatista, do the guys wear Zapata moustaches?
It is “in 150 years”, but it’s also “in recorded history”. Got a degree or so hotter down here, to.
And, confusingly, Zapata was never a Zapatista and died long before any of them existed. Black ski masks for all, I guess.
*too
Didn’t they take the name from the Liberation Army of the South that Zapata formed, the original Zapatistas? That’s who I was thinking of, anyway, when I saw the name.
And the ‘taches would look way better than ski masks. Plus summer.
Possibly. Not too up on the history of it.
And hopefully a post-scarce economy won’t come that soon…
Just realised that it would’ve hit 47-49ish in parts of my house, including my bedroom, earlier today. That’s roughly the peak temperature the inside of a medium-rare steak’s meant to hit in the cooking process. Report so far: I am a sort of a pink colour, which is perfect, but no red juices and probably no more tender than before.
*Balaclavas, not ski masks.
Except apparently they’re the same thing? I must’ve been thinking of ice hockey masks.
“Headwear for when it’s very cold” is not something I’ve had any reason to be exposed to ever.
And just like the oil companies, men will get around the monopolistic prices by building sexbots.
OK, now I can’t help imagining the clanking, brass-plated, steam-powered sexbots built by the oil companies in the late 1800s.
Society puts women on pedestals, warts and all.
Holy fuck these people are stupid. It’s like a guide to how not to use the English language.
I just actually properly imagined myself making sweet sweet love to a robot, and the only thing that went thorough my imaginary-sexing-mind was “this is a robot this is a robot this is a robot…”
The irony. It’s been quite pleasant here in Queensland.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4747663/schoolgirl-punches-boy-12-in-sickening-footage.html#ixzz2IIt8QrEz
And likewise in Melbourne, once we got the cool change this morning (yesterday was a stinker, but not nearly so much as Sydney was today).
It is SNOWING here. I hate cold weather, but snow just fucks me up something chronic due to my shitty circulation (Reynaud’s). I can’t even stay in with the heating on, I have to go out and help put on a benefit gig tonight. Which no one will bother turning up to because SNOW. 🙁
I only just now noticed that it’s only got one boob. Where’s the other one? Has it vanished into the depths of the Internet? If you stand in front of the bathroom mirror in the dark and solemnly intone “Sexual Market Place! Sexual Market Place! Sexual Market Place!” does it appear behind you?!
I blame my inattention to detail in the photo on my ability to look straight at it.
I figure hanging on to Righty is enough of a masturbatorial help for the guy, while the skateboard is rolling back and forth over the discarded tissues. As Boobz go, he’s a single Boob guy.
*now goes in search of brain bleach*
Oh, is that what it is? I assumed it had been photographed in the final stage of its making, and that was some of the yet-to-be-cleaned-up debris…
It’s either a singular boob (the whereabouts of the escaboob don’t deserve thinking about) or a very misplaced shoulder tumour. Given the general anatomy failure, who knows. What is disturbing me rather greater is whether this belongs to a Geelong fan…
Can someone please ship one of these to every Mens Rights Activist out there? Maybe then they can actually get what they want, mindless holes that can not conceive. Then they might stop spurting their ridiculous opinion everywhere.
As an aside, the Southeastern United States, this morning.
Hey look guys, “hey there” has done it. Zie’s proven that feminism has gone too far. Time to stop fighting for our rights, everybody, one 12 year old girl has violently assaulted a boy. And while that is obviously totally not okay*, it’s totally reasonable that several hate groups have popped up online against her, some issuing death threats. Also I’m sure that would have happened if a film of male bullying showed up on YouTube. Nobody would have just shrugged their shoulders and talked about “boys being boys” or anything.
*I’m not being sarcastic about this bit. Kids do not get to punch other kids in the face, and she should face some consequences for what is apparently a pattern of violent bullying.