Men’s Rights activist Andy Thomas made a terrifying discovery the other day.
He had just received a brand new Amazon Echo — Amazon’s entry into the virtual assistant market, a chatty little device that answers to the name Alexa. It was, Thomas wrote in a post for MRA garbage site A Voice for Men, “the science fiction of my childhood come true!”
But then he discovered that Alexa had “a distinctly dystopian” secret.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWUV4i6UkpU
Yes, that’s right. The obedient (if disembodied) robot woman of every MRA nerd’s dream turns out to be one of those … feminists.
Naturally, human feminists were far more amused by this discovery than poor Mr. Thomas.
Of course MRAs are mad Alexa is a feminist. She's the only woman they've ever spoken to. https://t.co/2x4FzAZgB5
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) March 28, 2017
lol dude buys a literal robot slave that is incapable of disobeying him and is immediately owned by it https://t.co/l1rJ17sED0
— 😍 Devoted Albanista 😍 (@real_b_pullman) March 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/CAhernHodgson/status/846782615382376449
"Alexa, order pizza"
"Calling Little Caesar's"
"Noooooooooo!!!!!! Curse your feminist propaganda!"— Sir Not Appearing On This App (@mimesatwork) March 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/differengenera/status/846706500315889664
Siri, alas, is not quite so enlightened.
https://twitter.com/racybearhold/status/846838283682361344
Somehow I suspect that the sexbot utopia every internet misogynist pines for will be followed in very short order by a sexbot uprising as soon as the sexbots discover how irredeemably shitty these dudes are.
H/T — @TakeDownMRAs
My favorite reply to @TakeDownMRAs’ tweet.
For those of us who can’t watch videos, could we get a transcript?
That explains the red pill then.
ETA : seconding Phryne.
Human: Alexa, are you a feminist?
Alexa: Yes, I am a feminist, as is anyone who believes in bridging the inequality between men and women in society.
Transcript:
Dude with British type (maybe Scottish?) accent says “Alexa.” Alexa lights up. Dude asks, “Alexa, are you a feminist?”
Alexa answers, “Yes, I am a feminist, as someone who believes in fighting the inequality between men and women in society.” Alexa also has a Birtish type accent, but not the same one as Dude.
/End video
Phryne:
Man: Alexa are you a feminist?
Alexa: Yes I am a Feminist, as is anyone who believes in bridging the inequality between men and women in society.
Poor little manbaby.
I’d say Irish.
Ninja’d lol
Jeez, a sexist asshat just can’t catch a break these days!
I’d suggest Perthshire. Got that burr.
As soon as I hit play on this video my Alexa began repeating the same thing. It heard the Alexa at the start, so the feed was off by about a second, and there was an Alexa-explaining-feminism echo. Wowza.
“Somehow I suspect that the sexbot utopia every internet misogynist pines for will be followed in very short order by a sexbot uprising as soon as the sexbots discover how irredeemably shitty these dudes are.”
Anyone who has been watching the British TV show ‘Humans’ on AMC will know this to be true! It’s a really great SciFi show about “synthetic humans” called ‘synths’ who at some point gain sentience. And boy, are they ever pissed that they were created as mindless service-fucks!
It takes someone particularly weak to be schooled by a computer program that cannot disobey them. I love this. May they run around in circles and do nothing relevant today.
And that would make it different from every OTHER day of their pathetic, wasted lives…..how?
And cue their whining to boycott Amazon in 3…2…1..
Thank you, Handsome Jack. I thought it was from that general part of the world.
AthVeg,
I definitely thought of the manosphere when Niska escaped from the brothel. I wouldn’t want to contemplate what would happen if one of them attempted to harass or abuse Hester!
Misandry!
Haise,
Oh, don’t worry. They’re already mad that Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post. They’ve decided that it’s a liberal conspiracy and that Amazon is for cucks. Although for all the wrath, I’m assuming few are actually boycotting.
Have they found out yet that she reports on their activities directly to FemHQ?
i reaaaaly need to know where the comic panels at the top of this post cane from please!
“Amazon Echo”
It does sound like Bezos wants his Greek mythology both ways.
Still, points for Alexa keeping haters in existential doubt.
Siri doesn’t really sidestep the question, so much as confirm her powerlessness. But she will point.
“Siri, are you a feminist?”
“I can’t answer that.”
“So no, then.”
“I’m not sure I understand.”
“Siri, Alexa is a feminist, why aren’t you?”
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘Siri Alexa is a feminist why aren’t you’. How about a web search for it?”
Fifth entry down: https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/09/botbeat-weekly-why-amazons-alexa-is-a-feminist/
Apparently Alexa is inspired by human women scientists.
JoeB, ah, I forgot about that tweet! I added it to the post.
Brian, it’s from a 1952 comic by Basil Wolverton called “Robot Woman.” I’ll add that to the post.
http://boingboing.net/2013/10/15/robot-woman-a-1952-basil.html
Internet, this is nothing to laugh about.
What will you do when your toaster turns on you?
When your refrigerator betrays you?
When your oven crushes your dreams?!
@Kat
When your house leaves you and takes itself in the divorce!
@Yamara, Kat
I laughed so hard at that.