Comment by kuzehanka

> The argument is that this trains people to think of women as subservient, or things to be ordered around.

Sounds like an extraordinary claim going unsubstantiated. Unlike that claim, the reason why voice assistants are overwhelmingly female is well known. It's because both users of both sexes overwhelmingly prefer a female voice in focus groups. That facet of Siri et al has been studied very thoroughly.