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"Technosexual" ... redefined?

Post by keraptis » Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:09 pm

I was browsing around on http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com when I stumbled upon a somewhat interesting discovery. If you look up the word technosexual, it says the following:

Technosexual (a portmanteau word combining "technological" and "heterosexual") originally refered to an individual with a sexual attraction to machinery. However, the term was recently redefined to describe a male with a strong aesthetic sense and a (non-sexual) fondness for technological accessories.

Sure enough, if you go to http://www.technosexual.org/ you can see a site dedicated to the latter definition of the word.

I had never heard the term used outside our little group ... had you?

And how dare they try to redefine us?! :wink:
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Post by minkwheel » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:14 pm

yep!!! I was going to post this a long time ago....but MONTHS ago, here in NYC, on the local NBC news, Sue Simmons read a blurb about a new term 'TECHNOSEXUAL" ...meaning "someone who loves a person who knows all there is to know about computers......... she made some comment like 'COMPUTER GEEKS AND THE WOMEN WHO LOVE THEM" .....then she moved on to botch up some other news items of the day. well, I guess that I am now WELL INFORMED about JUST WHAT the term means.....I mean .....IT WAS ON TELEVISION, SO IT MUST BE TRUE! ---minkwheel
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Post by minkwheel » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:15 pm

yep!!! I was going to post this a long time ago....but MONTHS ago, here in NYC, on the local NBC news, Sue Simmons read a blurb about a new term 'TECHNOSEXUAL" ...meaning "someone who loves a person who knows all there is to know about computers......... she made some comment like 'COMPUTER GEEKS AND THE WOMEN WHO LOVE THEM" .....then she moved on to botch up some other news items of the day. well, I guess that I am now WELL INFORMED about JUST WHAT the term means.....I mean .....IT WAS ON TELEVISION, SO IT MUST BE TRUE! ---minkwheel
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Post by kb7rky » Fri Oct 29, 2004 6:04 pm

Wow...that echo looked just like a message Mink posted...

Wow...that echo looked just like a message Mink posted...

:P

So, we're lumped under 'technosexual', huh? Hm...to paraphrase:

a male with a strong aesthetic sense and a (non-sexual) fondness for technological accessories.

Obviously, they have absolutely NO IDEA what the term REALLY means, huh?

I have to agree with Keraptis...not all of us here are male (right Sarabot? Dede? Voodoo? KOS-MOS?)

Me? Oh, definitely male...have been for 40+ years now ;)

Wait...didn't I once read the term posted on one of the many ASFR sites?

Looks like we made it into the mainstream after all, kids!

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hmm

Post by Trace Venom » Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:14 pm

Deja Vu...

Wasn't this discussed a while back?

Just curious, because I have a vague sense of having typed a tirade on the overuse of the "-sexual" suffix by marketing people. Or maybe I'm just making it up, and actually chatted about it with someone here.

Either way, I don't think the term, as it is used, makes any reference whatsoever to our little neck of the woods. It was quite possibly something tech-savvy hipsters (you know, those folks salivating over the black and color screen ipods, who might or might not have a Roomba doing their carpet cleaning) in New York and London made up to replace the term "metro-sexual" once it went mainstream.

I would preffer the term robophiliac. :wink:
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Post by jpetoh » Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:56 am

Since we're making up words, I'm a malfgasmic. :)
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Post by kb7rky » Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:03 am

I prefer the term "hobbyist" myself...

But, as long as we're poking fun at this this:

(cut to scene of peasants slopping mud)

"You're fooling yourself...we're living in a dictatorship...a self-perpetuating autocracy, in which the working class..."

"Oh, there you go, bringing class into it again..."

"That's what I'm on about...if only..."

"PLEASE! Please, good people, I am in haste...who lives in that castle?"

"No one lives there."

"Then who is your lord?"

"Noidguy...the resident technosexual of these islands..."

"What?

"Noidguy..."

"No, I mean, he's a what?"

"A technosexual..."

"What's that?"

"He's got a literal harem of beautiful female robots that..."

"Oh, is that what it means? I thought it meant anyone who has an attraction to pocket calculators..."

:P

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Post by Rotwang » Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:00 am

Brenda Love's book "Unusual Sexual Practices" describes it as "Androidism"
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Post by WinterRose » Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:01 am

I called us technosexuals in my FAQ... Please don't hurt me...
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Re: hmm

Post by keraptis » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:12 pm

Trace Venom wrote:Deja Vu...

Wasn't this discussed a while back?

Just curious, because I have a vague sense of having typed a tirade on the overuse of the "-sexual" suffix by marketing people. Or maybe I'm just making it up, and actually chatted about it with someone here.

Either way, I don't think the term, as it is used, makes any reference whatsoever to our little neck of the woods. It was quite possibly something tech-savvy hipsters (you know, those folks salivating over the black and color screen ipods, who might or might not have a Roomba doing their carpet cleaning) in New York and London made up to replace the term "metro-sexual" once it went mainstream.

I would preffer the term robophiliac. :wink:
Well, it's not a term I use at all, but it is a term that goes WAY, WAY back to the earliest days of ASFR, back when sites like Robotdoll's were big. I want to say that RD himself was among the first to use the term. Didn't his old site used to say "Welcome, fellow technosexual ..." ? I'm forgetting now, somebody help me out here!
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Post by kb7rky » Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:14 pm

WinterRose wrote:I called us technosexuals in my FAQ... Please don't hurt me...
Speak up, we can't hear you...
WinterRose wrote:I called us technosexuals in my FAQ... Please don't hurt me...
Whoa...okay...

We'll just send (dramatic music)...

STEPFORD MARY over to YOUR house!!!!

(da da duuuuuuum!)

:) :P

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Post by Robotdoll » Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:37 pm

That's it, next time I trademark everything.

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Post by keraptis » Sun Oct 31, 2004 9:28 pm

Robotdoll wrote:That's it, next time I trademark everything.

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See, I knew you were among the first to use the term. Did you make it up?
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Post by Keizo » Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:26 pm

I actually take this rather personally
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