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People have a tendency to laugh and ridicule these things. But there is a growing trend of single males in Asia. For China [0]: > in a country with 34 millio

People have a tendency to laugh and ridicule these things. But there is a growing trend of single males in Asia. For China [0]: > in a country with 34 million more men than women... For India [1]: > has an excess of 37 million males... The mind absolutely boggles at this combined amount. Necessity is the mother of all invention as they say. Remember the first mobile phone or remember the first car? Primitive to say the least. Now look at what they can do. I would wager we are 25-50 years away from deus ex machina bots. I hope to see it in my lifetime. [0]: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/leftover-men-china-get-married-gender-imbalance-one-child-policy-10485358 https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/leftover-men... [1]: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2142658/too-many-men-china-and-india-battle-consequences https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/arti...

ummonk 8y ago
You'd think that with an even bigger gender imbalance and a thriving tech industry, Silicon Valley would be leading the charge... I guess that's why we have VR though.
- gedy 8y ago
  There's a good amount of feminists who are absolutely against fembots and sex dolls, so I doubt SV/SF will ever lead the way here.
  - asdkhadsj 8y ago
    Why I wonder?
    - coldtea 8y ago
      Because if a man is fine with "fembots and sex dolls" and foregoes women, then that means that they think women's only use would be as fembots and sex dolls.
      - drblast 8y ago
        Feminists must really hate gay men.
        coldtea 8y ago
        Historically some did (e.g. you could be an early feminist and still consider gays or even lesbians immoral), but in general gay men were acknowledged as themselves oppressed and besides they do their own thing (e.g. gay men wouldn't be in a relationship with a female in the first place). Whereas in the situation with heterosexuals and fembots, the feminine side is still present -- just replicated and reduced to sexual functions. .
  - avatar33 8y ago
    If you can figure out which way will be seen to be against men, then SV can be reliably relied upon to do anything. 90% of SV will sell their own mother for a progressive enough cause. The levels of self hatred was out of this world.
  - putoutorgetout 8y ago
    But what an empty threat! What are feminists even going to do? Give sex doll afficionados the cold shoulder? It’s not like any feminist is ever going step in and occupy the void a sex bot fills. They’re the ones digging the hole. This is obviously a case where not being part of the solution is indeed being part of the problem, and laughably so.
    - cheez 8y ago
      They'd find a way to make it illegal
      - penultimates 8y ago
        They’s sign death warrants, in so doing. But whose?
    - TulliusCicero 8y ago
      > What are feminists even going to do? Give sex doll afficionados the cold shoulder? IIRC there have been instances of governments banning sex doll parlors.
  - foldr 8y ago
    And of course, radical feminist activists have total control of SV. Incidentally, I don't think you'll find many feminists who are opposed to sex robots per se. It's more that they are worried about the societal implications. Similarly, some people worry about the implications of children spending lots of time on iPads, but these people are not "against" iPads.
  - ummonk 8y ago
    That seems counterproductive. I would assume that fembots and sex dolls would reduce sexual harassment, particularly by the most objectifying men (since they will hold the most appeal to men who want objectified women, not human women).
    - craftinator 8y ago
      Yes, but that also themoves the power through self-victimization that they've always held. It's a real thing, Google it.
- coldtea 8y ago
  SV has inherited and most operate within the US cultural puritanism though...
- mac01021 8y ago
  Nothing stops us from dating or marrying outside of the "tech industry".
personlurking 8y ago
Re: China "Millions of single Chinese men desperately seeking a wife" [France 24 English, 26 min, 2017] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SboNzluN6Nc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SboNzluN6Nc I caught both this report and the one in my parent comment around the same time. The Chinese solution looks to be divided between sex dolls and importing women (though leaning more towards the latter) while the Japanese solution is about sex dolls and rent-a-families (possibly leaning towards the former).
k__ 8y ago
Now I feel a bit bad for having three girlfriends :/

ummonk 8y ago

You'd think that with an even bigger gender imbalance and a thriving tech industry, Silicon Valley would be leading the charge... I guess that's why we have VR though.

gedy 8y ago
There's a good amount of feminists who are absolutely against fembots and sex dolls, so I doubt SV/SF will ever lead the way here.
- asdkhadsj 8y ago
  Why I wonder?
  - coldtea 8y ago
    Because if a man is fine with "fembots and sex dolls" and foregoes women, then that means that they think women's only use would be as fembots and sex dolls.
    - drblast 8y ago
      Feminists must really hate gay men.
      - coldtea 8y ago
        Historically some did (e.g. you could be an early feminist and still consider gays or even lesbians immoral), but in general gay men were acknowledged as themselves oppressed and besides they do their own thing (e.g. gay men wouldn't be in a relationship with a female in the first place). Whereas in the situation with heterosexuals and fembots, the feminine side is still present -- just replicated and reduced to sexual functions. .
- avatar33 8y ago
  If you can figure out which way will be seen to be against men, then SV can be reliably relied upon to do anything. 90% of SV will sell their own mother for a progressive enough cause. The levels of self hatred was out of this world.
- putoutorgetout 8y ago
  But what an empty threat! What are feminists even going to do? Give sex doll afficionados the cold shoulder? It’s not like any feminist is ever going step in and occupy the void a sex bot fills. They’re the ones digging the hole. This is obviously a case where not being part of the solution is indeed being part of the problem, and laughably so.
  - cheez 8y ago
    They'd find a way to make it illegal
    - penultimates 8y ago
      They’s sign death warrants, in so doing. But whose?
  - TulliusCicero 8y ago
    > What are feminists even going to do? Give sex doll afficionados the cold shoulder? IIRC there have been instances of governments banning sex doll parlors.
- foldr 8y ago
  And of course, radical feminist activists have total control of SV. Incidentally, I don't think you'll find many feminists who are opposed to sex robots per se. It's more that they are worried about the societal implications. Similarly, some people worry about the implications of children spending lots of time on iPads, but these people are not "against" iPads.
- ummonk 8y ago
  That seems counterproductive. I would assume that fembots and sex dolls would reduce sexual harassment, particularly by the most objectifying men (since they will hold the most appeal to men who want objectified women, not human women).
  - craftinator 8y ago
    Yes, but that also themoves the power through self-victimization that they've always held. It's a real thing, Google it.
coldtea 8y ago
SV has inherited and most operate within the US cultural puritanism though...
mac01021 8y ago
Nothing stops us from dating or marrying outside of the "tech industry".

personlurking 8y ago

Re: China "Millions of single Chinese men desperately seeking a wife" [France 24 English, 26 min, 2017] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SboNzluN6Nc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SboNzluN6Nc I caught both this report and the one in my parent comment around the same time. The Chinese solution looks to be divided between sex dolls and importing women (though leaning more towards the latter) while the Japanese solution is about sex dolls and rent-a-families (possibly leaning towards the former).

k__ 8y ago

Now I feel a bit bad for having three girlfriends :/