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by dale coba » Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:51 am
I'll chime in as cis-male, but we and trans-males are not alone here. Who knows the census? We all have our guesses. I might guess one XX out of ten FC members - but lurkers?
As for myself, I am perpetually single - a shut-in as a consequence of disability, ineligible for a relationship. If it weren't for this fun, I'd have no fun at all.
Your insight about 50 shades of grey is certainly valid. The transition from reading about and enjoying the idea of that sort of submission, to playing as a fembot can be a very natural one.
I am a mess as a writer, but in the plotting I think I have learned a great deal. By analyzing the dynamics of vampire power relationships, we can see how a fembot and her creator, or a converted woman and her new master, are similar to the vampire dynamic, but superior. Most frequently, the vampire takes women in his lust and hunger, but destroys his victims, or degrades them into undead things less than himself. My Stepford uses nanobots. Like in a wax casting of a bronze, the template must be consumed to create and replace herself. We treasure the objects created, and the memory of each particular women's experience while being constructed from scratch, or brainwashed and converted.
In contrast, once automated the fembot has been elevated into a superior creation, by the addition of her synthetic characteristics, the removal of her organic vulnerabilities, and crucially the inclusion of false vulnerabilities which give her owner her every opportunity to feel needed. A powerfully self-sufficient fembot is not an ideal goal. Intentional, fake malfunctions are a most enjoyable means to demonstrate that, without her owner, an unsupervised fembot is in some ways a fragile device that can get into such a load of trouble.
I hope at least for our benefit someone will crack the translation from 50 shades to fembot stories and perhaps custom videos. Along with HBO's upcoming Westworld series, 50 shades presents a great opportunity to demonstrate to the uninitiated just how creative and paradoxically empowering fembot play can be.
- Dale Coba