So a couple of days ago, I wrote about an exciting new development in the world of imaginary women: a Japanese company has developed a holographic virtual waifu for men who prefer the women in their life to be completely submissive, completely imaginary, and live in a little jar.
At the time, I wondered aloud what would happen once MGTOWs discovered this new imaginary lady. Would they hail her as a big step towards the eventual replacement of all real human women? Or would they complain about all the naggy texts she’s programmed to send to her real-boy masters?
Actually, they’ve done both.
“Just take my money, “they” can shame me I don’t care I want one,” wrote one happy Redditor in the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit in a thread devoted to the imaginary jar lady.
[A] single tear of joy just rolled down my eye, the post woman age is here boys and its glorious. The more lesbians I see the better hahaha
Another commenter pointed out the ways this imaginary women — which is scheduled to the hit market late next year — will be superior to the flesh and blood kind:
Men will enjoy this because it means a virtual companion who will make the home ready everytime they come back and talk to them. That feeling of care and being available to help you whenever you need it is a luxury a real life woman would never provide on account of female nature being selfish and needy. As men, we tend to value loyalty above all else and a virtual companion does just that. Furthermore, this is far better than the alternative of picking up the house after a lazy ungrateful real life woman. Men no longer have to work the second job of taking care of a grown child.
But he can’t imagine women getting the same sort of satisfaction from a tiny virtual dude:
Now, for women, this device does nothing. Women desire social status and bragging that you have a virtual companion is probably the furthest thing you can do to gain status. While they may secretly enjoy it, they aren’t the audience to shell out $3000 bucks. They’d rather put that $3000 bucks into doing their hair and makeup in order to try and seduce a top-tier man. They do not value a clean house or loyalty and any companionship they may want is already readily available because of all her beta orbiters who are at her beck and call.
Others were less enthusiastic.
“[N]o…if i can’t f*ck it and it doesn’t cook it’s worthless to me,” wrote one.
“Wow. it’s kinda depressing,” wrote another.
I couldn’t help but cringe… we can find strength in independence rather than seek false comfort. It just seems delusional.
And then there was that whole “texting you while you’re at work” thing.
“I can see how the Herbivore Men would like this, but I’m gonna pass,” one commenter declared.
No way am I checking in to tell a bunch of pixels what time I’ll be home. Being alone would be far better.
MGTOWs: As predictable as they are creepy.
Of course, in twenty years (ten?) everyone will have tiny holographic friends, living in jars, floating in the air, who knows where else. I’m holding out for a tiny lady in the radiator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awVNCIjQq1A
@PeeVee
Heh. My first husband left me alone with our newborn so he could go gamble and oogle strippers in Vegas.
We should start a “My First Husband” bingo card game or something.
A crocodile tear, no doubt. And if the post-woman age really IS here, then kiss your mothers goodbye, fellas, you’re all about to evaporate in a puff of man-dust. Because the post-woman age is the post-HUMAN age. And you’re not even artificially intelligent, ha ha.
What an odd thing to say, considering that lesbians are actually Women Who Went Their Own Way. Without a man to embitter them first, even.
I guess this schmuck thinks that lesbians can only be either sexless altogether, or else so disappointed by men that they turn to other women. In either case, the wrongness of it, oy vey.
Well, at least this one is honest about his odious nature. Now, if he could just work up the self-awareness to realize that it IS odious…
Well, at least this one IS self-aware. I wonder how long before he realizes he’s hanging with the wrong crowd, and TRULY Goes His Own Way…away from these other bozos.
Yes. Yes, it would. And at the rate you’re going, you’ll get there in no time at all! Keep up the (cough) good work, ol’ son.
@Friendly Neighborhood Dragon Arthur
It’s been a while — nice to hear from you!
I get what you’re saying. OTOH, I would never encourage MGTOWs (or any other denizens of the manosphere) to acquire a pet. They would need to do a lot of maturing before they could be trusted with a pet.
This whole woman in a jar thing makes me think of the Christmas episode of Black Mirror. The one with John Hamm in it.
I know how you feel, Redditor-dude. I wept for joy at the thought that you and your online acquaintances would actually be going your own damned way!
But no. I stopped to consider your temperament, your history, and your tendency to be extremely tedious. You and your fellow MGTOWs will never go your own way.
Nah, you’ll stick around and try to make life miserable for women.
As always.
@PeeVee, I had almost the exact same experience with my first husband, except I was seven months along when he brought home the VHS tape. In my case it wasn’t his aim to be funny or cruel, but rather it’s just another example of his staggering obliviousness. It never occurred to him that a pregnant woman might find the movie…unsettling. We had just watched Blue Velvet a couple of months earlier, and he thought “Hey, more David Lynch, how can that be a bad thing?”
As I recall, I didn’t speak to him for several days afterward.
@PeeVee:
Could’ve been worse; he could’ve taken you to this…
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/QmMAAOSw8RJXCU0q/s-l1600.jpg
And yes, that was a real double feature. I remember seeing the ad in the Los Angeles Times back in the day.
Welp. At least that one dude supports half of same sex relationships?
Seriously, though, where do these guys get their stereotypes? Now it’s women who don’t care about a clean house? Aside from the prevalence of women always being the housekeepers in media, I know both the women I’ve been in a serious enough relationship to live with have been way more obsessed with cleaning than I could ever be. Girls are raised from birth to be cleanly while us guys are expected to be dirty slobs (“boys bein’ boys”). Not that I’m a dirty slob, but it does take a little more for me to notice clutter. And they’re saying WOMEN only care about social status? I guess that’s why men never buy sports cars or strive to get that big promotion. And if they did, I’m sure it would just be because some power hungry woman is manipulating them into it.
If this thing becomes a symbol of pathetic lonely-but-intolerable-for-normal-women men like real dolls are, they will never catch on.
Wouldn’t a proliferation of lesbians mean a post-man age?
Oh look, Richard Spencer (the dapper Nazi) has a mother. And the Daily Stormer is doxxing Jews (or those with Jewish-sounding last names).
White Supremacists Threaten Jewish Community in Whitefish, Montana
http://jezebel.com/white-supremacists-threaten-jewish-community-in-whitefi-1790253119
I might be interested in a CL4P-TP version..
Aside from the disturbing aspect I don’t get what this is supposed to do besides inane greeting/goodbye “conversation”, weather updates and switching on lights. Worst virtual companion ever.
BoinkBoink and Nequam,
I dunno, guys, have you seen the baby from Eraserhead?
My dumbass husband had seen the movie previously, and still thought this would be a fun flick to take his terrified young, pregnant wife to go see. Har har. Such a trickster.
Nequam, was that at a drive-in? That looks like that’d be fun…if one isn’t young and pregnant, that is, lol.
So poor guy has to pick up the house when he gets home from work. How awful. Why isn’t his woman doing that? Oh, she works longer and/or later hours? Oh, it was his mess to begin with? Poor thing.
These guys really don’t understand how overwhelmingly pathetic they are, do they?
Frankly, any of the men so frequently quoted on this blog are very much welcome to Go Their Own Way. The sooner the better.
@PeeVee: I’ve seen Eraserhead, yes. I figured the double-feature would be worse because it’s longer.
And no, it wasn’t at a drive-in; this double feature was being run at quite a lot of regular theatres and multiplexes. (Drive-ins were already nearing extinction in Southern California by 1986.)
@Nequam,
I’ll confess: I’ve never seen any of the Alien franchise. Just the bits of the trailer were bad enough for me. (I’m kinda squeamish. What can I say? The baby from Eraserhead freaked me out enough!)
Drive-ins were cool, though. I miss ’em.
This thing seems like its just a maid themed siri so I bet they will be rather disappointed with it as a companion,
now as a house AI with personality I can understand the appeal but I would rather have EDI then a maid-in-a-jar.
Give me a SHODAN in a Jar and you will never see me again.
@Cythni,
I’m not alone! Um…yay? Lol
Honestly, after I gave birth to my son, I scrutinized his poor little body from head to toe looking for anything wrong…that movie messed me up that badly.
My ex did that on purpose, the shit. He thought it was uproariously funny. When we were buying the tix, the usher even asked me “…are you sure this is the movie you want to see?” Yeah. Should have taken that as a hint…
…and that’s another reason he’s my ex.
@PeeVee the (Noice) Sarcastic
Well the xenomorph (the titular alien) is one giant Freudian nightmare dripping with KY jelly (not even joking thats what its slime was),
one stage of its life cycle called the “chestburster” by fans bursts out of its host killing them (and traumatizing the cast because no one told them what was going on) in a bloody vaguely birth like manner.
This is reminding me of Ayn Rand-in-a-jar from Sewer Gas & Electric:
http://www.bymattruff.com/my-novels/sewer-gas-electric/
I wonder if that would be even more popular with Randian MGTOWs.
@Ooglyboggles:
That can be interpreted in multiple ways, each progressively more ominous.
http://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/z341/pcongiusta/tumblr_lxsbo5frYk1qc2pw4o1_500.gif
“Brown” nationalism
California governor Jerry Brown* gave a speech at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco a few days ago. He said that if Donald Trump shuts down satellite collection of climate data, “California will launch its own damn satellites.” Woot!
This Is What the Resistance Sounds Like
https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/12/this-is-what-the-resistance-sounds-like/510899/
Also of note: Some of the scientists in attendance held a rally in downtown San Francisco in support of research on climate change.
*Jerry Brown (D), who is 78, was governor in the 1970s and 1980s, and he is once again governor, making him both the youngest governor and the oldest governor of California.