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     In the science-fiction series “Armitage III”, Feminists have taken over Earth and encourage men to emigrate to a terraformed Mars, where the lack of women is compensated by gynoids (i<\/em>.e<\/em>. fembots)… including “Type III” androids that resemble non-Feminist female humans (which obviously ends up angering the Earth’s Feminist overlords).<\/p>\n

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The FUTURE, thanks to Feminism<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

     Feminists angered at gynoid robots, and Social Justice Warriors angered about sexist men oppressing robots by daring to “gender them”, however, is not science-fiction, but rather the basis of the peer-reviewed academic paper “Gendering Humanoid Robots: Robo-Sexism in Japan<\/a>” by Jennifer Robertson.<\/p>\n

     The abstract, obviously, is yet another “word salad”:<\/p>\n

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“In humans, gender is both a concept and performance embodied by females and males, a corporeal technology that is produced dialectically. The process of gendering robots makes especially clear that gender belongs both to the order of the material body and to the social and discursive or semiotic systems within which bodies are embedded. This article explores and interrogates the gendering of humanoid robots manufactured today in Japan for employment in the home and workplace. Gender attribution is a process of reality construction. Roboticists assign gender based on their common-sense assumptions about female and male sex and gender roles. Whereas the relationship between human bodies and genders is a contingent one, I argue that gendered robots render that relationship a necessary one by conflating bodies and genders. Humanoid robots are the vanguard of posthuman sexism, and are being developed within a reactionary rhetorical climate.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     As is usual, there is plenty of reiterating other academics points with a “unique” POV, as well as rambling; there is also bonus cultural insensitive since the Japanese<\/em> specifically are being blamed for this sexist assault against defenseless robots.<\/p>\n

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I blame Genom Corporation…<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

     Right out of the gate:<\/p>\n

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“Even the robots can’t escape the goddamn sexist pigs.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     And with that tone set, we soon learn that Tetswan Atom (AKA “Astro Boy”) is really a “trans-robo-boy” (or would that be a trans-android?):<\/p>\n

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“In actuality, as is well known, Tezuka’s prototype for Atomu was the ‘girl robot’ in his comic, Daitokai (Metropolis) \u2013 not to be confused with Fritz Lang\u2019s film Metropolis, featuring the gynomorphous robot Maria that was screened in Japan in 1927. The girl robot in Tezuka’s Kasei Hakase (Doctor Mars) was also a precursor to Atomu.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     Has the author bothered to read either Tetswan Atom or Metropolis?<\/p>\n

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*sigh*<\/p>\n

     It should be obvious that as robots become more human like, they will take on human attributes, such as the fact that humans are a sexually dimorphic species with biological women and biological men.. However, the author doesn’t grok this intuitively obvious:<\/p>\n

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“In humans, gender is both a concept and a performance embodied by females and males \u2013 a corporeal technology produced dialectically. The process of gendering robots makes especially clear that gender belongs both to the order of the material body and the social and discursive or semiotic systems within which bodies are embedded”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n