Futuristic Sex Robots Now Just "Sex Robots" 602
High-C writes "With apologies to Futuristic Sex Robotz, the future is here, and her name is Roxxxy. Truecompanion.com has revealed their answer to the Real Doll, and it looks nice. The site is short on details, pictures, pricing info, but wow." NOTE: some of the above links are not work-safe, for many values of work. I stopped by this exhibit today at the AVN Expo (not officially a part of CES, but by curious coincidence scheduled to coincide; the old saw that porn drives tech isn't without merit). Roxxxy, though, was rather unsexily posed on a couch, not moving a bit — downright creepy, in fact.
We had sex robots for a long, long time (Score:5, Funny)
They are called vibrators.
Strangely, widely accepted by one of the sexes, this which is usually thought to be more demanding (on many levels) of partners.
Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time (Score:5, Funny)
I thought they called them harry potter brooms [peterrivard.com]?
Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time (Score:5, Informative)
I once bought a cheap $25 blowup doll as a gag. I decided to fuck it since throwing it away a virgin (blowup dolls' orfices are sealed with pull-tabs much like the ones on cans) would have been a waste. It was harsh. It was tight but it ended up making my dick all raw, even with a condom on, even in the shower.
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So I take it you did finish the job?
When a problem arises I get a grip on the situation and shortly a solution is found.
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I think that most of us guys have become accustomed to the level of control we achieve with our hand(s)
This site more than others?
Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time (Score:5, Insightful)
In the shower? There's your issue. Water is a horrid lubricant for that stuff. And if it was prelubricated... it was most likely water based.
So, basically that's all your fault.
And, you've never tried something decent. That was a $25 piece of shit doll. Try a $60 fleshlight, there's a big difference. Yea, not as quick as using my hand and cleanup etc is a pain in the ass, but the intensity of it is levels higher.
(yea, you creeped out yet? heh)
Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time (Score:5, Funny)
I think you're using it wrong.
Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time (Score:5, Insightful)
I think there might be a reason for it (Score:5, Interesting)
All joking aside, I think the strong reaction by women against love robots for men stems from a perceived difference in what sex means for men and women.
Most women want something more then pure sex. And this is proving very hard to get, as most men just want them for sex. So the vibrator is NOT a replacement for what women want.
But a sex robot WOULD be a replacement for what men want.
Men are already obsolete. They can use a vibrator for penetration, spermbank for babies, and a dog for sleeping on the couch. And yet, women still want men. Desperate enough that many put up with abuse just to have one.
Women are not yet obsolete. There is nothing as soft as a woman, we can't have babies, and a cat is to affectionate and emotionally reliable.
But a robot that is close enough for sex... that could mess relationships up. How many of us guys (especially when we were young) put up with women just for the sex? Say you can get exactly the same without the real human being... would you still date (or for us /.ers attempt to date)?
Don't say that you need the human companionship. Especially us techies have consistently tried to remove the human factor from daily interactions. Ticket machines instead of a manned counter. Text-messaging instead of talking to someone. Discussing the days events on a website rather then with friends. Playing against bits rather then against human people in the same room.
So I get it that vibrators are more accepted. For most women, they are NOT a replacement for a male partner.
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You're confused about a great deal here. This is normal. Many men are confused about sex, and what they want from a partner. To put it bluntly, while a sex robot might or might not be okay as a substitution for masturbation, it is a long stretch from being a substitute for sex. While it's true that men and women have different flavors of interest in sexual relations, the differences aren't so great as all that, and a belief that a robot is a potential substitute for the man's half in all this illustrates a
Don't do it! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't do it! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't do it! (Score:4, Funny)
I'm so overclocking my fuck bot. Watercool that bitch and shove some nvidia cards in her ass....
My fuck bot will run Crysis at 200fps... and blow me at the same time.
Take that Steve Jobs, you cancer riddled fuck!
Re:Can you imagine a beowulf cluster... (Score:5, Funny)
You don't want to think about that, it'd be a cluster fuck.
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My daughter ain't marryin' no Zorblaxian! [smbc-comics.com]
This thread is worthless without pics (Score:5, Insightful)
Half a dozen links and I couldn't find one pic of the damn robot. If it was that "creepy" posing on the couch, how could you not at least snap a picture?
Ask and ye shall receive... (Score:4, Informative)
She still doesn't look any more realistic than a blowup doll:
http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/01/09/ces2010-roxxxy-truecompanion-worlds-first-sex-robot-preview-nsfw/
Re:Ask and ye shall receive... (Score:5, Informative)
She still doesn't look any more realistic than a blowup doll:
http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/01/09/ces2010-roxxxy-truecompanion-worlds-first-sex-robot-preview-nsfw/ [botjunkie.com]
They're obviously going for the niche pre-op tranny market. That's ballsy.
Here's some images (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.france24.com/en/20100110-firm-unveils-x-rated-robot [france24.com]
As you can see, the uncanny valley has not been bridged with sex robots. Looks less human than a mannequin. Nothing to see here, move along.
Re:Here's some images (Score:5, Informative)
The inventor is nuts.....
People can customize "true companion" personalities and then share the programs with others online on the company's website, according to Hines.
"Just think about wife or girlfriend swapping without actually giving the person to someone else," Hines said. "You can share the personality online."
Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11, 2001 attacks, when planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and an empty field in Pennsylvania.
"I had a friend who passed away in 9/11," Hines said. "I promised myself I would create a program to store his personality, and that became the foundation for Roxxxy True Companion."
Wow.
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Also from the website:
Friends don't turn friends into latex sexbots (Score:3, Insightful)
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Me too... unless it's at my hand...
Seriously? (Score:5, Insightful)
Career move (Score:5, Funny)
NSFW, eh? (Score:3, Funny)
So, umm, I guess there will be no "RTFA" comments in this thread.
But does she.... (Score:5, Funny)
But does she run on Linux...
Re:But does she.... (Score:5, Funny)
I can just imagine what would happen if Microsoft had written the software. You would have something like the office assistant come up and give you "helpful" hints. Then the robot's face would turn blue and you would need to reboot it.
Plus the robots would become easily infected with viruses.
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It looks like your trying to preform intercourse. Would you like help?
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Informative)
For what it's worth, in the latter robot novels, the three laws were not a set of rules that robots couldn't break, but rather a hierarchy of needs to drive their actions.
Basically, why would a robot want to do anything? Why not just sit there and relax all day?
Psychologist have proposed a hierarchy of needs for people. You get off your ass because you need to make sure you eat and survive. Once you got that you make sure you're safe and comfortable. If you got that you find friends, a mate/fall in love. etc.
Asimov's first robot novel (Caves of steel) did include the three laws as unbreakable laws, but later (robots of dawn, etc) he instead stated that they were the reasons robots even moved or acted. Their AIs were based around wanting to protect humans, once that's done, they want to follow order, and if they got that they want to keep themselves safe. It's their deepest instincts, their reason to be.
It wasn't against the law to make a robot without the three laws. The problem was that nobody knew how to do that and have the brain still be stable. It was stated that it would take over a hundred years to develop non-three-laws AIs from scratch.
So, it's not like they want to do their thing and be resentful about having to obey humans. They might be annoyed at doing things that humans want just like we'd be annoyed at having to eat, breathe, have friends and to never shoot ourselves in the head.
Not saying you don't know this, but it's just a pet peeve of mine. Hollywood seems impervious to this resoning :)
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Interesting)
Now, I haven't seen the new Holmes movie, but I think alot of people don't give the Will Smith version of I, Robot the credit it deserves.
First, it's very much in keeping with the stories of the I, Robot book in two ways. First, it's an exploration of how the three laws might actually wind up working out. Second, it's a detective story. The original stories were all a robot acting, seemingly, against the laws, and somebody needing to figure out why. And usually, it wound up being that the humans simply wern't understanding how the rules worked in a given situation.
Second, the movie really does explore some interesting ideas. Will's character being bitter that a robot followed the rules, resulting in the death of a child. A robot reasoning that in order to keep humanity safe, humanity has to be controlled. Note that the 'evil' robots never ever raise a hand to any human who isn't actively resisting, for example. Or with Sonny, the idea that a genius or a revoluationary is somebody able to break free of the thinking of their contemporaries. Or, when he's going to be reformatted, the idea of 'what is sentience? What is life?' If Sonny walks, acts, and quacks like a duck, is he a duck? If he walks, acts, and thinks like a human, or even appears to, does he have the same basic worth or status as a human? The 'Can you compose a symphony?' 'No, detective. Can you?' line was beautiful.
I'm not saying it's a masterpiece for the ages or anything, but it's a perfectly good film, raises (or restates) some interesting issues, and isn't completely un-Asimovish.
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The biggest problem with the movie, is one you didn't address. The movie is racist.
The movie is a thin allegory about the slavery of the black man by the white man, and the white mans fear of a justifiable slave rebellion and *retribution* which (historically) never happened.
This makes it amusing that they give the racist role to a black guy.
What's not funny, is that it basically tells the racists who feared the slaves retribution, that they were *right* to fear it! We all have to *keep* those darn robots d
WTC? WTF? (Score:4, Insightful)
From one of the articles:
Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11, 2001 attacks, when planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and an empty field in Pennsylvania.
Uh... I don't know what to say. I mean I really don't.
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Maybe read the rest:
Yes, I did read that part, it makes it even more scary. I mean talking about recreating your friend who you lost in a tragedy as a sex doll? There are mental hospitals (and newsgroups) for this kind of behavior.
Roxxxy? (Score:5, Funny)
Ok hi, heh, ok heh. My name is Roxxy. Most of you know me as um oom ugh um most of you know me as Roxxy. I suppose if you're watching this you probably know me as Roxxy, but um ugh ugh most of you don't know me as moldy lunchbox and um so yeah thats my gaia username on gaiaonline and I told my gaiaonline friend buddy per. One second I'm uncomfortable. I told my gaiaonline buddy friend um that ADMIRAL AWESOME that I would make a video just for him. So I'm doing it, here it is, ADDIE LOVE YOU ARGH HAAH ARGH HAAH ARGH HAAH I LOVE YOU! And um um so lets see ugh what about urgh... just so you know cuz I know you're watching this addie cuz you're such a conceaded BASTARD.. umm I don't normally talk like this, I'm normally like all over the place like I am right now, but its a calmer voice most of the time unless I'm like really hyped up cuz then its even different still from this, but let me try again with my calmer voice. Ahem.. ugh erm.. Yeah I'm really like, its-its fun, its cool there it is its going again ARGH cuz its just so crazy. Um erm it um is.. I love you, I love addie because hes really like fun to talk to and stuff and like hes um like I met him only like 2 days ago and we're like married and it is crazy because we love each other so much. And um ugh we are twinies like all over the place, it is like crazy! His avatar is like a manwhore and I.. had a avatar like a really long time ago.. it was a SLUT AVATAR! *Gasp* And um right and he made an avatar to match my first skirt one, IT WAS SO CUTE IT WAS SO NICE I LOVE ADDIE!
Re:Roxxxy? (Score:5, Funny)
Well she's already smarter than my sister.
He killed me Mal... (Score:5, Funny)
He killed me with a sword. How weird is that?
Re:He killed me Mal... (Score:5, Informative)
But the sex bot didn't recognize Mal - just recognized a presence. Why else did “she” relay the same message to the Agent when he came through a few minutes later?
--- Mr. DOS
I bet that.. (Score:5, Insightful)
$6000? For a giant Team America: World Police doll (Score:5, Insightful)
I know that the TCO of a couple mixed drinks, a venereal disease and eventual child support payments is more than $6,000, but I think your average buyer is gonna find that price tag pretty steep.
Especially when these things look like the fucking puppets from Team America: World Police!!
Requirements analysis? (Score:5, Funny)
TRUECOMPANION.COM: World's First Sex Robot * Always Turned On And Ready To Talk Or Play
It seems this is yet another technical project doomed to failure from a lack of proper requirements gathering before implementation.
The primary theoretical advantage of a sex robot is that you can turn it OFF.
Teleoperation (Score:3, Interesting)
So you build male/female pairs of robots with wifi and an ssh tunnel connecting them. Throw out the AI and substitute it with a teleoperation setup. You would need some sort of body motion capture suit at each end as well. Aim for low latency but I don't see it as too much of a big deal. Pay Woody Allen to promote it.
Now you don't have to worry about being away from your loved one when working and studying overseas.
Ending human trafficking for the forced sex trade (Score:5, Interesting)
Funny thing, I was just at an academic presentation on human trafficking connected with the sex trade a couple of weeks ago. I made the observation that the thing that had tended to lead to the complete end of other forms of extreme exploitation (slavery, debt bondage, and similar forms of unfree labour) was the mechanization of whatever it was that people were being forced to do, and that so far mechanizing human sexuality had proved difficult.
So I think it's fantastic that these companies are continuing to push the limits of exactly what range of basic human needs can be met through mechanization, because if there's ever eventually a product that genuinely meets this need for a large enough number of people, it'll basically end the economic viability of forced sex labour. Note that it doesn't have to meet these needs for everyone, just for enough people that setting up the infrastructure for forced sex work is no longer economically viable.
I also wonder if there'll ever be a crossover point where having a 'real doll' will be something that people are comfortable disclosing - kind of like the crossover that occurred sometime in the late 1990s - early 2000s with online dating in North America. In the 80s and earlier (for those of you who are too young to remember), meeting people online or through newspaper ads was something that was kind of desperate-seeming and embarrassing and something that people who'd met that way tended to 'hide' by making up some other story about how they'd met. Now it's basically normative, and it's rare to find people unwilling to say they met through an online dating service. Likewise, women owning vibrators went from being something no-one admitted to, to something that second-wave feminism made normative and no big deal (witness many of the comments about vibrators already in this thread, most of which aren't from 'anonymous cowards').
Anyway, I think it's going to be an interesting decade or so for people interested in the interactions between human sexuality and the labour market.
Re:Ending human trafficking for the forced sex tra (Score:5, Insightful)
But just like paedophilia the numbers on sex trafficking are blown out of proportion by the alarmists. In actual fact, the number of women trafficked to the west against their will for the purposes of sex is insignificant. People smuggling is a far more serious problem.
The majority of sex workers travel of their own accord, this is particularly prevalent with SE Asian women where there is little stigmata against prostitution. This is why you can find Thai and Philipina girls working in many cities such as Amsterdam, Dubai, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Most of these women make a hundred times what they do with a "real" job in their own countries and often go home rich. Even in Thailand, in Phuket the minimum daily wage is 209 Baht per day (A$8) and these jobs will go to locals before a farm girl from Issan, Phuket is one of Thailand's richest provinces whilst Issan comprises the poorest provinces so the average daily wage is lower in the Issan provinces. Now these women could work 10-12 hour days in a factory or farm for less then 200 Baht a day or they could work in a bar in Phuket and potentially pull between 1000 and 4000 Baht a night (A$30 to A$130) via prostitution, obviously not every night but the prospect of this kind of money is very appealing to a girl who has little education and few employment opportunities.
Spirit of the Age... (Score:5, Interesting)
Hawkwind... Spirit of the Age...
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...they rebelled.
Might want to play "All Along the Watchtower" to your sexbot -- if it starts dancing, you'd better watch out.
If it's an 8, I'll happily deal with the consequences...
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Informative)
I feel presumptuous making a suggestion. But you opened the door, I'm just walking through.
I highly recommend using a proper lube instead of lotion. I like a water/glycerin/glycol product, like Astroglide. I have a (lady) friend who likes petroleum jelly. (Available in a tube if you go this route. I find the tub gross.)
I think you'll find much better lubrication and sensation. As a bonus, with the water based products cleanup is easier.
-Peter
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I knew this girl who had a USB one that synced with this interactive video player for Windows.
She got Conficker.
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get a water-based lubricant like KY. The stuff also works a treat when you need a wank.
If you hadn't had the end of your penis cut off, you wouldn't need KY to wank.
Presumably circumcision wasn't your decision, but bear this in mind if you become a father.
Re:O RLY? (Score:4, Interesting)
I suddenly feel a little bit smug having only spent $25 on my vibrator, and the occasional pocket change on lotion and AA batteries. Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me. It feels good to be a girl right now. ^___^
It's like any other hobby - you can spend as much or as little as you want on it; with varying results. I'm sure a guy can save themselves a considerable amount over the cost of one of these dolls by buying a Fleshlight. Meanwhile, a girl might want to spend more than your toy's ticket price on a Symbian. And there's undoubtedly whole lines of mass-produced, small-run production, and custom equipment out there for every aspect of human sexuality.
It's about luxury, I guess? (Score:5, Interesting)
Granted, the fleshlight [fleshlight.com] is a little over twice as expensive, but it's still in about the same range, and it is (more or less) the same kind of toy -- a disembodied genital.
Now, the TrueCompanion website doesn't list a price, and I assume it would be much higher. For comparison, it looks like the Female RealDoll [realdoll.com] runs around $5k or $6k... But they have Male ones [realdoll.com], too, and they aren't cheaper, unless you go for the disembodied torso.
And a Sybian [sybian.com] is a little over $1k.
So no, I don't think it really says all that much. I mean, I do agree with you about this:
Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me.
...though probably for a reason you wouldn't like: If I was that desperate, a prostitute is probably more cost-effective and convenient, and I'd rather not do either. But I don't really see anything about this to make one gender better or worse... ...though I suspect that far more women own vibrators than men own any sex toy. Maybe we make up for it in pornography?
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even just the per-use cost of a RealDoll is probably lower
Maybe, but then you have to clean up the RealDoll after each use. Prostitutes are self-cleaning.
I guess I could raise the option of hiring a maid for washing the RealDoll, but then this whole discussion might start to get a little weird.
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So I'd need about 54 bucks worth. That's not a bad deal.
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Unless you share and/or have a very... interesting toy.
chobits!
Re:O RLY? (Score:4, Informative)
Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me.
Two words: violet wand [huse.com].
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Informative)
Um, a vibrator isn't a fake dick. You are thinking of a dildo. Although a vibrator may also be a dildo, not all dildos are vibrators. A vibrator is something that ...vibrates. it can be any shape.
Um...does this post make me a sex toy nazi?
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Um...does this post make me a sex toy nazi?
Nope...but watch out. Now you've got a legion of /. nerds who can't figure out if you're a guy or a girl. Your mailbox is going to be flooded.
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Funny)
Um...does this post make me a sex toy nazi?
No, but you inspired me to finally sign up for an account.
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Funny)
Um...does this post make me a sex toy nazi?
Um, I dunno. Are you now a 12 inch tall vibrating Hitler?
Waitaminute... I suddenly sense an extremely profitable business opportunity!
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Re:O RLY? (Score:4, Funny)
Our condolences. This sounds a lot like Taliban - perhaps you should ask to be liberated or something; I hear there is that country, can't remember its name, thats pretty good at that sort of thing. Especially if you've got a dry arid climate, they've got a lot of recent experience with that.
Texas is pretty much out of oil (Score:4, Funny)
So they don't need liberating.
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He's behind the times, the Texas law got overturned in 2008 after the Supreme Court made it possible by saying that laws that control private sexual conduct to enforce a moral code was unconstitutional.
Last I knew, Alabama was the only state with laws against the sale of sex aids.
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Funny)
Because other girls don't have dicks.
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Funny)
Because other girls don't have dicks.
At the moment, this comment is modded "Informative".
Only on Slashdot.
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Funny)
can carry on a discussion and expresses her love to you and be your loving friend.
Yeah, because conversation and expressions of love is exactly what I'm looking for when the urge to "relieve" myself shows up ;) It's only one small step from this functionality to the lovebot claiming it has a backache when you start undressing ;)
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At least the robot can't charge you with rape when you ignore its protests...
Re:O RLY? (Score:4, Funny)
A comic on the radio the other day said, "no doesn't mean no- it means, work on the nipples some more, kiss the side of the neck some more, and check back in five minutes".
I've found most females have to approach sex sideways. "I'm not doing this.. oh look, we just somehow ended up naked and having sex".
OTH, The two females who were direct were a bit scary and offputting.
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Yeah, that's what you think. Wait till IT ignores YOUR protests.
Yeah, think about that!
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Informative)
Most females are great at conversation.
You just have to ask them a question to start them talking about something that interests them and then say "ah", "yes", "that bitch!" occasionally.*
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To be fair, dale carnegie teaches that the thing most people love talking about is themselves and you are seen as a great conversationalist if you get someone started, listen, then ask questions about things they say which you are genuinely curious about. At some point, most conversations will turn into a give and take.
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There's more than one comic routine about recognizing this fact.
Wait for rev 2 (Score:5, Funny)
Hell, I divorced two wives because they wanted to "carry on a discussion". Believe an old rodeo clown like me, fellas, "discussion" is heavily overrated when it comes to relationships with the opposite sex.
Great. How long before she starts telling me to take out the garbage? No thanks. If you don't mind, I'll wait until I can get the rev 2.1 non-English speaking version, with the culinary-skills upgrade.
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I love your eyes Roxxy
roxxy: I love your eyes too, bill.
You make me hot!
roxxy: do you like it that i make you hot?
What's your favorite sex move!?!
roxxy: What about your own favorite sex move, bill?
I like pinching your nipples.
roxxy: Can you elaborate on that, bill?
I like pinching them and making you squeal!
roxxy: Do you wish to like pinching them hard so me, bill?
http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza-cgi-bin/eliza_script [www-ai.ijs.si]
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And finally one grill product without the head of George Foreman on it.
At least... oh well, whatever floats your boat, but I do NOT want to see one on mine!
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Funny)
I just want the same respect you'd give any man on this forum.
I think that's what he was giving you.
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Insightful)
There's absolutely no problem with you being a girl. There are many girls on Slashdot, and I haven't ever seen that being a problem.
The problem with you, personally, is that you're very in-your-face about "I'm a girl, and that MATTERS!". That's what GP means by "constantly mentioning" and "attention whore". There's nothing wrong with identifying your gender when it's relevant to the topic at hand, but, judging by your post history, you're keen on dragging it into every discussion - and, if necessary, you will bend the discussion to do so. And you usually also do it in a deliberately provocative way to cause a gender pissing match. That's what annoys people.
Of all females posting to /. - which are surprisingly many, actually - and even out of quite a few who have explicitly identified themselves as lesbian or bi - you are the only one being singled out like that. You might consider if that is because of your attitude, rather than your gender or sexual orientation.
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Informative)
What post history are you looking at? I just looked through the recent comments on her profile and couldn't see much mention of gender.
There was this thread and one other post about TSA data exchange specification that mentioned gender along with numerous other data fields. Other than that, it seemed like pretty typical nerdy chatter about malloc() jokes and energy through sewer tunnels.
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Insightful)
"Techiedude96" likely wouldn't say "It feels good to be a boy right now. ^___^"
Admittedly, that's mostly because we're a patriarchal society where it rarely if ever doesn't feel good to be a boy.
However, I think your post answered the question it begged - you can "feel good" by only spending $25 on a vibrator, with occasional batteries and lotion, and spending hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is "beyond you." Well, obviously.
Other people need more than bullets: both men and women alike. And you choose to rub in their faces the fact that they can't get off with pocket change, and you choose to bring gender into it by erroneously claiming that girls need spend less on sex supplies than guys.
That's sexist bullshit, girlintraining. And it's demeaning to a heck of a lot of people.
So you want to take "pride" in something that isn't an accomplishment (being female), while working to undo the accomplishments that have been made in the name of women, and sex, everywhere. Are you sure you're not working for a medal?
Re:O RLY? (Score:4, Insightful)
I've actually enjoyed many of your posts. They are often insightful. That being said, you DO seem to often mention both your gender and your sexuality quite often. We get it and most of us don't give a shit whether you're a man or a woman, gay or straight. Get over it and move on :)
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Here's an interesting comparison (Score:3, Funny)
1) Refers to self as "dyke".
2) Likes to constantly remind people he's a woman
3) Gets up in everyone's face at the slightest provocation regarding issues of sex/sexual orientation
4) Something in the name implies a sex-change operation
girlintraining (in terms of above four characteristics):
1) Check
2) Check
3) Check
4) Checkmate.
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Well pardon me for taking pride in my gender. No, I don't want a medal, I just want the same respect you'd give any man on this forum.
No problem. Here we go: Fuck you sideways, and get bent tomorrow.
I'm a dyke... do you really think a few mods on some backwater geek website is going to deter me from continuing to call you people out for your sexist bullshit?
"you people"? snicker snort. If it's so backwater, what are you doing here? You should just let this whole conversation go until you can have it with detachment. (I'm one to talk. But whatever.) Also, I don't really believe in sexual orientation. Anyone who has to say it over and over again is, to me, trying too hard. But that last is only going to describe the attitudes of a slice of Slashdot. I suspect it's a small one, but don't recall a re
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Here's a hint... [myspace.com]
girl in TRAINING...
transgender...
so to you, "girlintraining", this gender stuff might all be very important and so on... I really woudn't know if that's your myspace btw... just making a point to everyone else...
... the rest of us simply DON'T GIVE A SHIT... it's "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"... and we DON'T GIVE A SHIT about your gender and your issues about it. There's different forums for that kinda shit...
... other than that... you're more than welcome to discuss any of the to
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Funny)
Not even remotely the same.
1) The knife wound is going to be warmer. You can't achieve the same effect with ground chuck since it will actually cook it and then you're just fucking cooked ground beef which has a much, much, different texture. Plus you had better wait till the meat cools off. Trust me.
2) You better have a real small dick, or a really large knife. Internal organs and muscle don't give, or conform, to the shape of your dick as readily as ground chuck. Plus it just feels weird man.
3) If you stab into muscle, the muscle around it can still contract. At best it can be interesting, at worst you are being carried around by a cow by your dick. Then you have to use your knife frantically to kill it.
4) You either let the cow run around with a deep stab wound (unethical and cruel), or kill it afterwards. You can't kill it before hand, because that would be bestial necrophilia and:
a) That's some seriously sick twisted perverted shit man. I'm disgusted you made me even think about it. Again.
b) A juror always pukes when they hear that in the court room and I got a weak stomach for that kind of stuff. Plus the judgment in everyone's eyes.
5) The only sane thing to do is to kill the cow in such a way as to make it look like aliens came and did shit to the cow. Most of time.. it ain't aliens.
P.S - Of course... just maybe... you have problems differentiating a +5 funny attempt and a +5 'I was actually fucking serious' :)
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm guessing this is a troll, but the fact that this is modded "Interesting" instead of "Troll" says something disturbing about slashdot. I can only imagine that a reasonable number of readers agree with it. Presumably embittered male readers.
So many things I could say, so let me pick the easiest: assets? Seriously? A neutral addition to the household, or a liability? How are they any more of a liability than YOU are, unless you are in fact suggesting that a woman's place is in the home and that "the skills that made them an asset in the past" are the only skills of value?
So rather than viewing women has human beings who you might want to share your life with, you're viewing them as a burdensome financial investment in exchange for sex. It's just barely possible that this attitude may go some way towards explaining the problems you've been having with women.
Re:O RLY? (Score:4, Insightful)
In general, Western women are just a pain in the ass to be around.
And how. I think what we're seeing here is the inevitable overcorrection from feminism. Women convinced themselves they're entitled to anything and everything due to the oppression of women in the past. The problem is that it only leads to more oppression when you make yourself helpless.
If a good gyndroid cost $10,000, it would be considerably less than a man spends on a woman when amortized over ten or fifteen years. Frankly, a gyndroid would be a real bargain.
We're very far away from that. So far, it is still necessary to go out and find someone you can stand to be with. IMO, the biggest obstacle is puritanical views on sex programmed into all of us westerners (realize it or not) that tell us that sex is something it isn't. It prevents you from having sex with your friends, the people you should be having sex with, because of the likelihood that you will make sex into something it isn't, fly off the handle, and ruin a friendship.
I do have to say that I am fucking appalled by most women's inability to cook. Are they planning to marry a chef, or just eat in restaurants for the rest of their lives? My lady is a chef, and I still have to cook occasionally; you'd think more women would want to learn. But as you say, most of them don't know a fucking thing. This tendency is worst in the most attractive girls, who have guys fighting to support them. But in a world with divorce, that's not a valid plan for later life. When the beauty wears off, as it does for most women (especially those who spend a lot of time eating restaurant food) then they'll find themselves floating home.
Re:O RLY? (Score:4, Insightful)
I really hope I'm just feeding the troll here, because the alternative that it might be genuine is horrifying. I don't think I've ever read a bigger load of misogynistic tripe in my life. That 8 people at time of posting thought it was worth upmodding frankly scares me.
Women are not angels. They are not cooks, they are not money whores, they are not 'skilled life companions'. They are *people*. They are all individuals with different desires, loves, lusts, skills and minds.
Making love with a partner is not about just jamming a vibrating piece of plastic or your dick in her and expecting her to writhe with desire for you. Making love is as much in the head as it is the physicality of it. Building a relationship is not about exchanging money for sex, cooking and 'raising well-adjusted kids'.
I feel sorry for you, and I feel sorry for the women in your life, that you see them as just after the money in your wallet; that romance is about counting up how much the bill costs.
Yes, some women are not very nice people, just as some men are not very nice people either. But it's one thing to be an asshole, and it's another thing to then classify hundreds millions of women as all self-centered money-grubbing liabilities.
If a good gyndroid cost $10,000, it would be considerably less than a man spends on a woman when amortized over ten or fifteen years. Frankly, a gyndroid would be a real bargain.
If the only thing you're getting out the relationship is bad sex with a fucking sextoy, and all you're thinking about is complaining about how much it costs you; then yes, you're damn right you'd better off with a gyndroid. At least it won't care when you think of it as a piece of meat put on earth just to satisfy *you*.
Re:Imagine... (Score:5, Funny)
I recommend just giving them a miss entirely (Score:3, Interesting)
It is a site that occasionally has moments of brilliance, but it by far outweighed by a mountain of pure stupidity. It really isn't worth your time, even without malware.
Re:holy shit (Score:5, Funny)
Yea I too was wondering if I could order a 13 year old model.......oh wait, never mind.
Re:holy shit (Score:5, Interesting)
You joke, but it's a really good questions. A "seemingly 13 year old" sex robot would definitely be illegal in UK, for example, but what about US? If it would be legal, I can't wait to see the shitstorm that happens when someone actually has one made.
Re:holy shit (Score:5, Insightful)
And yet I'd rather have people fuck all the robot kids they want than have them rape real children.
Re:holy shit (Score:5, Insightful)
Back when I was still forced into going, I remember a sermon my father's pastor gave about homosexuality, wherein he basically said that as long as homosexuals do not act upon their urges in any way, shape, or form, then they can be as homosexual as they want. Maybe not the same thing, but for some reason I was reminded of that sermon.
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What is unhealthy is that they are likely to want the real thing eventually. Take for instance the straight male that gets one of these - it may placate him when he gets randy but it is only going to increase his appetite for more.
Why would it? Seriously, I don't think something like that will happen. More likely, we'll get a whole lot of robophiles who will breed themselves out of existence.
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What is unhealthy is that they are likely to want the real thing eventually. Take for instance the straight male that gets one of these - it may placate him when he gets randy but it is only going to increase his appetite for more. hat makes you think a pedophile would be any different?
So you think pedophilia is 'curable'? It's not more curable than say, homosexuality is. It's a sexual preference. If that's not what you meant, how do you figure that getting an outlet for ones urges somehow makes a person even more desperate? In my head, it's kind of the other way around.
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If that's not what you meant, how do you figure that getting an outlet for ones urges somehow makes a person even more desperate?
There are really two ways of looking at this. One the one hand, like you said, it could be "an outlet for urges". On the other hand, it could enhance the urge for "the real thing", or make the pedo think that the next step isn't so "big" (yes, its a slippery slope argument, but not all slippery slopes are imaginary.)
I think this is something psychologists/psychiatrists needs to
Re:holy shit (Score:4, Insightful)
Much, much, MUCH better a pile of metal and plastic shaped like a 13 year old child than a REAL 13-year old child.
I agree, but these religious types do not actually care about the victims, they care to tell people what they can and cannot do, i.e. they want to tell you what to do, think and believe. So having sex with a fake child is about as bad in their eyes as having sex with a real child.
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Stop it! Stop it, please! Why are you doing this to my beautiful language? Please, make the bad man stop!