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
Since we’re talking SF, and we have some Frenchies here, anyone got any thoughts about the upcoming Luc Besson flick, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets? I had never heard of the source material before, but apparently it’s a big deal in the Francophone world.
@Moggie
Huh… never heard of it. I have however heard of Luc Besson. I have seen of him. I would strongly recommend staying away – though said source material itself could be worth checking out.
Digg posted this last night, and stuck it in my inbox, without even my asking:
Can Amazon’s Alexa Be Your Friend?
The leading tag was “Echo and the Lonely Men”.
@Moggie
I’ve been a Valerian fan for ages, I gope the movies doesn’t suck.
@Sinkable John
Not a fan of his filmmaking, or is he a shit in person?
@Dalillama
A lot of the former, and potentially a lot of the latter too. I dunno about the guy in person, but it’s hard not to make assumptions based on what I can see in the movies themselves. I don’t wanna make any definite statement but he strikes me as a milder Uwe Boll.