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It's really an unfortunate double standard in our culture. Women can have all manner of mechanised play things, and that's a-ok by everyone.
by river_styx 18y ago
It's really an unfortunate double standard in our culture. Women can have all manner of mechanised play things, and that's a-ok by everyone.
- yummyfajitas 18y agoWell, it's part and parcel of the existing gender roles. Men chase, women choose. Being chosen by women indicates a man has value. Mechanized playthings for a man indicate low value (he can't find a real woman). It gives little info about a woman. On the flip side, having many human playmates indicate a man has high value. It lowers a woman's value, however, both due to perception and for some intrinsic reasons. Looking at the whole picture, I think men come out ahead: human playmates >> mechanical playthings.
- scott_s 18y agoThere's a clear difference between a vibrator and this robot: one is meant purely for sexual stimulation, the other is a replacement for human companionship.
- flashgordon 18y agowell technically at the core of it, human companionship and sexual stimulation both trigger conducive chemicals in the brain... so the base reasoning is the same in both cases. So what is the problem? Whether this guy is sad and needs to see a shrink is a totally different matter.