Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart “journalist” and full-time GamerGate panderer, has weighed in on the topic of the day amongst woman-hating dudes: sexbots, and how non-robot women are going to be so sorry when men desert them en masse for sexy, uncomplaining lady robots.
His 1800-word post on the subject covers pretty much all of the standard manosphere talking points on the coming sexbot utopia for men; he even manages to quote (approvingly, of course) our old friend Heartiste, the woman-hating white-supremacist pickup guru.
The basic argument will be familiar to anyone who read my post about MRAs and sexbots yesterday, or who’s ever heard MRAs and/or manospherians wax poetic on the subject: modern Western women, infected by feminism, have gotten so awful that men these days only put up with their bullshit for the sex; as soon as even halfway decent sexbots become affordable, these mean ladies will get the comeuppance they deserve, and end up living sad, lonely lives with no one to keep them warm except for their cats.
And yes, Milo is enough of a hack that he actually includes the bit about the cats.
“When you introduce a low-cost alternative to women that comes without all the nagging, insecurity and expense, frankly men are going to leap in headfirst,” he writes. “What’s clear is that the purchase women have over men, sexually and emotionally, is fading fast.”
As Milo sees it, men won’t even mind that their sexbots’ orgasms won’t be real. Indeed, he sees this more as a feature than a bug.
[W]ith a robot, men know the orgasm will be fake, so it removes the performance anxiety of trying to make the grade. (Men know the robot orgasm doesn’t exist — unlike the female orgasm, whose existence is still insisted upon by some conspiracy theorists and biological extremists.)
Amirite, fellas? You’re terrible at sex, and you don’t care! High five!
Apparently worrying that he isn’t pandering enough to his audience as it is, Milo even suggests that his own sexual preferences — he’s gay — are the result of the deficiencies of human women.
“I mean, look,” he writes. “I don’t mean to be rude, but most of the reason I went gay is so I didn’t have to deal with nutty broads.”
Really, Milo? Really?
But this raises a question. Milo starts off his post by suggesting that the only reason human civilization has amounted to anything is because of the hard work men force themselves to do in order to impress the, er, “broads.”
Who, or what, men have sex with is the basis of our civilisation. It is the driving force behind our greatest accomplishments. Men don’t compete for abstract pleasure: they compete to bag the best mate. The internet, the pyramids and the moon landings would not exist were it not for man’s desire to have sex with woman.
Actually, the moon landing wouldn’t have taken place without the work of Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of Project Apollo, but never mind that for a moment.
The question I have is: why does Milo Yiannopoulos pound out 1800-word posts for Breitbart on a regular basis? Why does he even bother to get out of bed in the morning? I mean, he’s gay. He doesn’t need to impress any of those “nutty broads” he says made him gay.
Admittedly, Milo’s work isn’t advancing civilization in any way, shape or form, but there have been plenty of accomplished gay male artists, writers, inventors, you name it. I mean, I’m pretty sure that Michelangelo didn’t paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to impress some hot chick.
And what about lesbians? How do they even decide who gets to be the hot chick, and who gets to be the hard-working genius trying to impress the hot chick?
It’s all very confusing. Or it would be, anyway, if Milo’s bullshit were anything other than bullshit.
Yes, Milo, you chose to be gay because of us “nutty broads”. Mmmhmm. So, have you picked out the features for your female sexbot yet? Hair colour? Skin colour? Measurements? I mean, because you’d be attracted to women if they’d only stay quiet and do your bidding? Does the MGHOW/”nutty broads” excuse gain your self-loathing ass more acceptance with your Republican cronies than just admitting that you like dick?
“Do these men get that women will *also* have low cost alternatives to men?”
Only if you can find some men to design and build it for you. 🙂
So, lemme see if I got this straight: Every time in my life that I’ve ever orgasmed — and I am, for the record, a cisgendered woman — I’ve been the victim of a “biological extremist” conspiracy theory?
Huh. And all this time I thought I was just enjoying myself immensely.
I really don’t the people who think men are only motivated by sex. Would they just curl up and die of starvation if a medical condition or medication caused their libido to go away?
Okay, so a guy with a sexbot which is either:
A: a programmed-response machine with a reasonably lifelike appearance and a built-in fleshlight, or;
B: an actual sentient AI forced into sex-slavery (strong AI without choice is an oxymoron–it’s either a really good chatbot or it’s sentient; can’t be both, IMNSHO)
… is somehow a ‘winner’, while a woman who has a bunch of cats that provide the warmth and affection she seeks is a ‘loser’?
(And of course, the woman could also get a sexbot of her own if she desired more carnal pleasures but was somehow isolated from humanity.)
So person with cats + sexbot is somehow behind the person who only has sexbot + bitterness. Got it.
Oh, it’s worse than that. With the manosphere, it’s always worse.
They’ll tell you that women actually engineered the wars, pushing societies to the brink of desperation for consumer goods and then shaming any man who refused to fight (get them talking about the White Feather movement, which was started by a man, for an example of that part). As with all things manospherian, this requires the ability to ignore anything and everything that doesn’t fit their worldview, like the heavy female presence in virtually every peace movement, ever, but at this point, they’re quite adept at culling out their own version of reality.
That’s fine. Moar sexy ladies for me. Bwahaha!
Though can talk about the cats keeping us warm thing? My cats keep me too warm. When it’s cold I actually set up a heating blanket so they will lay on it rather than me but nope mommy’s face is apparently better than a heating blanket.
Wait, so he made the argument that all of mens accomplishments are because they want to impress women AND was in favor of sexbots. I mean, I realize this is a common complaint but… isn’t that hypocritical? By the logic of the first statement sexbots will destroy all forward motivation. So… Huh?
Wait a minute…. if all of civilization depends on men wanting to bag the best mate, wouldn’t thoughtless sexbots destroy civilization as we know it?
Why is he encouraging this?!?!?
“without the work of Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of Project Apollo,”
Thank you, I shall troll them with such information!
If there are both male and female sexbots, then I want one of each. I’ll plug them into one another and just leave them like that in the spare room. By automating sex entirely in this manner, it means that I have more time for
playing Darkest Dungeoneducation and philosophy.Talk about projecting your own inadequacies onto the rest of the world. Sounds like a personal problem, buddy.
@Bina:
I suggest that everyone (who feels that way) should conspire extra hard this week, and commit biological extremism upon this world!
“why would a woman want to step down to the lower status of being equal with men? Why should women be badgered into choosing to work over having babies and being happy?”
Speechless.
Speaking as someone who was a science-obsessed kid during the Apollo programme, and for whom Apollo mean a great deal, I find that really fucking insulting to the countless people who made the moon landings possible.
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for bonerkind”
Rabid Rabbit:
Michelangelo did have a rather fraught relationship with the pope:
Technically speaking, this is correct, as human reproduction (until recently) required two people with complementary genitals to have sex. (Granted, cis men and trans men or cis women and trans women, or nonbinary people could also produce children with each other, but I’m not certain that there’s enough non-cis people to maintain a stable population exclusively).
Of course, human accomplishments would also not be possible without woman’s desire to have sex with men, by the same token.
That was exactly my thought too. No more Burj Khalifas, no more Google Glasses, no more chipotle lime jerky, no more Avengers movies, no more new anything. Nothing but a bunch of indolent lotus-eaters lying around, addicted to their boners, never creating anything of value….
….oh wait, that’s what the target sexbot demographic already does anyway. I don’t think we need to worry.
We should be so lucky.
I think the future of simulated sex is more likely to be based on some sort of direct neural interface than sex bots.
If we can fool the brain into thinking generated sensory input is real then you could create a virtual reality indistinguishable from the real thing.
Of course people have been pondering if that’s already the case since De Cartes at least. We might just be brains in jars already.
But I suspect that within a century that lotus eater existence will be possible; and there probably will be a demographic that rarely surfaces from that.
I doubt if we’ll lose our pyramid building skills as a result though. It won’t be the useful people withdrawing from actual human interaction.
1. Men’s ambitions and goals in life are entirely driven by sex and sex only
Dang, no wonder school was so hard before puberty. True story, my grades improved dramatically after my puberty. Milo, Genius Unacknowledged, has solved that mystery!
And since I was at a single-sex school my motivation must have been derived from my significantly older teachers! Nothing strange at all!
2. You can choose to be gay when you feel like it.
Totally verified by The Sims! Clearly Milo has done extensive research with the aid of Gamergate.
3. Internet, pyramids and Apollo program possible due to horny men
Milo forgot to mention the inspiration behind these achievements. Clearly the pyramids and the Apollo program have massive phallic significance (oh the puns!). If you are wondering about the Internet I can sum in up two words: free porn.
Brilliant succinct summary by Milo! Someone get this guy a sexbot!
Ah, but that’s just it! As David’s longtime readers know, one of the many, many myths of the manosphere is that in the event of the Apocalypse (which will alternately be brought about directly by feminism, or by men’s reaction to feminism, or the ghost of Ayn Rand’s zombie), each and every one of them individually will be among the few who not only survive but thrive in the savage new world that emerges. They like to quote Rorschach and Rand a lot when the subject comes up. I’m fairly certain that most of them also believe that they will be higher up the food chain than their peers in the movement, though it’s considered impolite to say so outright.
I’d want one of each too, but not for the same reasons as you. *pansexual tea sipping*
Nah, Gamergate has disqualified The Sims as “not a real game because icky girls play it” and “it doesn’t even have guns”.
He’s the gay equivalent of an uncle tom. I can’t imagine going through life bashing causes that benefit me and others like me. It must feel very hollow. Hah! Who am I kidding, he gets PAID to write shit like this. That sweet cash makes it all better I’m sure.
I suppose if you’re a gay man who is also a career misogynist, you have to come up with some bull like, “I turned gay because wimmenz suck!” to avoid admitting that, like every other misogynistic man you’re scapegoating women to gain the approval of other misogynistic men and to prove your manliness.
But that doesn’t exist, because Milo Yeah-Nope said so! You biological extremist conspiracy theorist, you!