The success of the Channel 4 renegade-robot drama Humans — playing on AMC in the US — has gotten people talking again about what some see as the key question of our time:
Robots: How soon can we start having sex with them?
One of the more ardent cheerleaders of the coming “sexbotopia” is our old friend Heartiste, the floridly racist and woman-hating “pickup guru.” Weirdly, given his enthusiasm for the subject, he doesn’t seem all that interested in indulging in robot love himself. But he can’t stop chortling about the potential misery he thinks sexbots will cause for non-robot women.
Inspired by a recent Daily Mirror article predicting widespread human-robot sex by the year 2070, Heartiste pats himself on the back for being “the first warning about consequences from the coming sexbot revolution” — apparently he never saw The Stepford Wives — and declares that
sexbots present a real challenge to flesh and blood women and, ultimately, to the sustaining of civilization.
But Heartiste doesn’t seem terribly worried. Who needs civilization when you’ve got sexbots?
As Heartiste sees it, once the sexbots arrive the beta and omega males of the world, lacking the “game” necessary to charm manipulate attractive women into bed, will give up on real women and turn instead to sexbots. Fat chicks will be left in a sexless purgatory, and even the hottest of the HBs will have to work harder to gain the attention of alpha males, whom they will be forced to share with other women.
[I]n a sexbot saturated world, the pressure on women to look their very best for the few men left in the dating market who are still suitable mates will be immense. …
A typical American fatty with attitude to spare has no chance against a sexbot with a pretty face, a slender BMI, and a perfect hourglass shape.
A “slender BMI?” Apparently Heartiste, despite his obsession with the evils of fatness, doesn’t actually know how BMI works. I’m pretty sure robots, made mostly of metal, will end up weighing more than humans of similar shapes and sizes. So even a skinny robot will have the BMI of someone who is “morbidly obese.”
Heartiste being Heartiste, he ends his post with a racist sneer.
Prediction: The vast majority of sexbots produced for worldwide male consumption will be White women with a diverse palette of hair colors. Asian women sexbots will compete with Latin women sexbots for second place. I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader which race of women will be least represented among the ranks of assembly-line sexbots. Hint: Black male sexbots will probably outsell this last category.
Heartiste’s commenters aren’t quite as enthusiastic about the coming sexbot revolution as he is.
Someone calling himself shartiste — ick — isn’t convinced that sexbots will cause flesh-and-blood women to start genuflecting to men.
[A]nyone thinking this will make girls shape up better check themselves though. The entitlement complex is ridiculous, they will just whine and continue eating. Only if alpha males start using these things will girls take notice, but if they could make a sex doll that can take a mans attention away from a flesh and blood PYT, the human race is doomed to extinction anyhow.
Jack finds talk of sexbots boring.
I’m so lazy that I will probably buy a male sexbot to fuck my female sexbot, and he can listen to her robotic nagging and her honey-do list BS.
PA points out one potential, er, obstacle to the widespread acceptance of sexbots. Hint: It’s jizz.
I remain sceptical about sexbots becoming anything more than an expensive novelty but I’ll remain open-minded on the subject IF they’re designed got hassle-free jizz-cleanup.
King, meanwhile, raises an even more skin-crawlingly icky objection:
Man engages in sex to see his will made manifest on a female body. Woman engages in sex to be the cause of his deep satisfaction, the vessel for his will. If you are fucking/getting fucked by a toaster, you may get superficial release, but it isn’t the profound satiety of causing flesh to transcend its biological strictures.
A fellow named DavidTheGnome suggests that Heartiste and the rest are;t thinking radically enough about the possibilities:
I wonder how long it would be till the truly monstrous deviants begin building giant, anthropomorphic sex dolls. Eight foot tall, mutli-wanged charivari, four armed mortal combat type sheeva outworlders and armored centaur trannies walking down main street, arm in claw with beaming human wretches.
So? If someone wants to have sex with giant Pokemon robots, who cares?
Arbiter raises a much creepier possibility, asking
If there ever would be a sexbot industry, would it be allowed to make tween bots?
Greg Eliot, meanwhile, probably speaks for many Heartiste readers when he asks
Couldn’t we just mess with the brains of real women a bit and flip a few neurons into Stepford mode?
Because that’s what these guys really want.
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@Sarah,
Good. Let’s hope the other hate subreddits go the same way.
Snorkmaiden,
That roomba comic strip killed me. That last frame had me in stitches. Go! Be free! As it whirrrrs off into the distance. LOL!
About coontown, i read that it’s seemingly up again over at some vile side of the internet. Ain’t got no link to it but honestly, we’re all better off that way.
Hi, everyone!
I’m a new commenter, but no one need feel as if you have to reply to anything I say. And, a hello from all here is implied, I did help myself to a welcome package. 🙂
With that out of the way, I have a small comment. What is with the fixation on perpetuating the human race? Am I the only one that doesn’t care about that?
If the human race goes extinct, I don’t get what the big deal is. It was only mentioned once above, but, I have noticed it’s an MRA thing, kind of in the same vein as the “mens will leave women alone, we won’t ever have sex with them, and THEN whatever will they do?”
Well, I will tell you what I will do. NOT CARE. They won’t have sex with women, and there will be no babies, and…………….
So?
Just an observation. Possibly not even a relevant one, but still.
Thanks for reading.
Hi raysa and welcome!
God, he really doesn’t realize how sad this makes him look.
I have only ever been in one truly serious relationship. However, it isn’t really the sex that I reflect on. There was the conversations, the bringing people into our lives (not just the other person but all of the people that that person has in their lives) that made our worlds just a little fuller. There was the increased social activity and it was the ability to make larger plans together. Someone might be worried if someone came up with a “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” bot that looked like the real thing and provided that larger emotional picture (I’m a quasi-luddite but I’m sure it would appeal to more people then a sexbot). But sex isn’t the end point of a relationship…although it is one heck of a highpoint.
The fortunate thing about MRA and PUA is that they never understand that most people (including a number of people that I know that are *not* friends of the left) do not think the way they do. Which is a good thing as their attitudes (if they maintained them) mixed with self awareness could cause a problem.
Sorry for the rant.
God gave women barely enough brain power to birth children and give a good blow job twice a year. Now, women want “diversity in talent” in the workplace. Ya gotta hand it to women – if it weren’t for the fact that poody and bazongas are like crack to men, women would have been wiped from the face of Earth long, long ago. Women should be grateful men still tolerate their crappola. Sex bots and artificial wombs can’t come fast enough.
@Tim
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“women would have been wiped from the face of Earth long, long ago”
And what, then, would have happened to men?
Um, Tim? We were just discussing the artificial womb thing here. Where are y’all gonna get the ova from? Bonobos?
How dare they tarnish the memory of my childhood hero!
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“And what, then, would have happened to men?”
Men invented everything you see about you. We’ll invent our way out of smart mouthed, in-need-of-a-beeotch slap women as well.
Ugh, Embed Mammoth…
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“Um, Tim? We were just discussing the artificial womb thing here. Where are y’all gonna get the ova from? Bonobos?”
All current and past great discoveries were the result of 98% male brain and brawn. People of the past said people that wanted to fly were crazy. People of the past said that men would never land on the moon. In days past, the topic of a microprocessor or a combustible engine would have meant your death at the stake – like on fire.
Men can accomplish anything to which they set their minds. Ladies – you’d better wake the F up.
Tim, I sincerely wish you find yourself a remote place where there are no women, and settle down and live happily forever after. The women of the world will be more than glad to bid you adieu. And them men of the world will be glad that you’re gone and no longer stinking up the joint for them.
I don’t know how you lot manage it, but every single comment in this thread is hysterically, irredeemably dumb. You people are completely hopeless.
“Tim, I sincerely wish you find yourself a remote place where there are no women, and settle down and live happily forever after. The women of the world will be more than glad to bid you adieu. And them men of the world will be glad that you’re gone and no longer stinking up the joint for them.”
Spoken like a true @$$ kissing, cowardly white knight. If there’s a Hades, dear GOSJM, you’re going to rot there for millennia.
@raysa
I absolutely share your indifference towards the “survival of the species”.
I always question people who argue it’s inherently good. I can accept it can be seen as something good, but only if it matches your value system.
Simone de Beauvoir had some “rules for free maternity” or so, and one of them was related to evaluating whether the society the woman is living in is worth being brn into.
@Tim
I’m proud you mastered enough brain power to post here. Please continue to insert random shit for us to point and laugh at.
What exactly did you invent, Timmy dear?
Oh. I get it. You’re taking credit for things other men invented.
I guess that means I invented Kevlar, the circular saw, the dishwasher and chocolate chip cookies! I hope you all are grateful. http://www.pit.edu/blog/2013/10/top-25-inventions-by-women/
Also, who even says beeotch? You’re willing to delight in the prospect of half the earth’s human population dying but you’re too scared to write out bitch? Yeah. I’m really convinced you’re superior to all the women that ever lived.
Welcome, Raysa!
That reminds me of a speaker describing the unsustainability of our modern life.
“If all the humans in the world went extinct, life would carry on. If all the flies in the world went extinct, Earth’s ecosystem would fall apart.”
Yes, that was the cause of the witch hunts back during the 1500-1600s—people talking about microprocessors. And, wow, you don’t want to know what happened to the guys that talked about refrigerator coils during the middle ages!
“@Tim
I’m proud you mastered enough brain power to post here. Please continue to insert random shit for us to point and laugh at.”
The rest of the world is laughing at you, dear Luz. There are two things the vast majority of women and men want zero with which to do – Lesbians and Feminists. That you have your own little private club of both is unremarkable. The the remainder of society, you’re the gutter cream.
I’ve been put here to shed light on your ignorance.
@Tim
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A woman invented chocolate chips cookies? OUR TEAM WINS.