A fembot bashing video by the New York Times

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Re: A fembot bashing video by the New York Times

Post by Silkscreen » Thu Aug 09, 2018 3:23 pm

Honestly, I can't understand that either. It's the same whining, just reversed direction. Boys … hey, boys! … –crickets– … look,Tits!

Okay, now that I have your attention … if you have problems complimenting women who deserve it, your mother-detector needs to be adjusted. No prob there, you have that thing built into you. All of you. But you have to understand it's a receiving end problem if it doesn't work properly. It's not women's fault if you fall for witches.*

Stay away from women with psychological problems. It's simple. You can sense it. Your mind has a detector dedicated for finding agreeable women. It's just out of tune because people told you women and men are the same. Because if you tune it to agreeable person women turn gray and uninteresting as other men are. Because that's what you do with men – you ignore them, mostly.

Are you totally, romantically moved by a woman? Does she make your heart beat harder? Does she make you sweat? Go for it. Stop thinking, damnit! :lovestruck: :lovestruck: :lovestruck:


*And I know what I'm talking about, because I am a witch. Just a nice one, who only beats you up during sex, not claiming you did, or had started it.

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Re: A fembot bashing video by the New York Times

Post by Silkscreen » Thu Aug 09, 2018 6:17 pm

Watching Weird Science again (thanks to that stupid collection of video snippets) I found its soundtrack featured O.M.D.'s Tesla Girls. Well, they also did Maid of Orleans. So much for digging tough women. :nerd:

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Re: A fembot bashing video by the New York Times

Post by Miss Pris » Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:51 pm

The video has some points, but they wrongly attribute a confluence of social phenomena that existed well before the popular idea of "fembots" to recent images and ideas of gynoids. I've mentioned before on this forum that "feminism" includes SO many more forms of this critique than just the well-known varieties, such as radical feminism (which opposes fembots very strongly, as I'm sure everyone knows); as a feminist critique of popular images of women and beauty in social media, it's a fair commentary. They over-extend themselves however when they apply the current incarnation of "woman are there for men to look at" to either the machinic OR the artificial. This idea of women (and the critique of it) have been around for a VERY long time. You could even make the argument that the feminist academic critique of women's roles in society begins with Christine de Pisan in the middle ages. (Of course, I can't make the claim that the idea of an artificial person didn't exist yet, as Heron probably created such automata in ancient Europe, and the story of Galatea probably pre-dated him - before anyone jumps in with that - but I doubt these ideas were daily talking points.) Trying to blame "fembots" for something people previously blamed on other groups, images, power dynamics, etc. is just going to make people's eyes roll. We hear this argument again and again. Fill in the blank for what single-factor issue is "wrong" with society this week.

If someone's doing feminist critique "right" then they should be welcome to alternative interpretations and well-aware that few social phenomena have just one cause. There's always a deeper history to look at, and these vloggers (which is what they are essentially - no matter who's footing the bill) ignored it so they could make a sound-chunk video. Everything has a sound-chunk video about it now. As the saying goes about opinions... but now, all the assholes are video-capable.

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Re: A fembot bashing video by the New York Times

Post by Sentient6 » Tue Aug 14, 2018 5:00 pm

Why is an ASFR forum even making reactionary dismissals of feminism when we could be upholding GLORIOUS CYBORG FEMINISM?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cyborg_Manifesto

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Re: A fembot bashing video by the New York Times

Post by Silkscreen » Tue Aug 14, 2018 6:31 pm

…but now, all the assholes are video-capable.
all of them. That's the difference to before.

But it's a good thing! There's so much of this stuff out there, hardly anything of it matters any more. It's the cacophonic ending to one-way "communication". Sound bites. Video snippets. Slurred with random talk.

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Re: A fembot bashing video by the New York Times

Post by Miss Pris » Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:52 pm

Silkscreen wrote: It's the cacophonic ending to one-way "communication". Sound bites. Video snippets. Slurred with random talk.
I love it - you make the whole internet sound drunk! :P

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