Comment by lkey

'some fun' here is owning and having sex with a women shaped object that can never say no?

I don't think that's a good impulse to indulge, and its worth figuring out why that feels 'normal' to you (and others here). I'm not saying y'all're bad people. I want folks to think about this and change their minds. When feminists talk about rape culture this is what they mean.

Notions of ownership and objectification of people underwrite both slavery and the devaluation of women and children.

> AI/Robots are not really bound to traditional gender concepts

Not by nature, but we immediately project those concepts onto them, like we do to other people. Straight male transphobes actually are the most likely to gender and treat their AI companions like their loving girlfriends. It's really funny how little 'biological pronouns' matter when 'she' is affirming them.

> in almost every movie they are either coming to kill us or serving as sex dolls (or both).

Yes! Exactly! This is systemic misogyny. It is important to be able to identify and critique the systems that reproduce and normalize this stuff.

"In almost every missive from abroad our legions report of inhuman savages that are an existential threat to our way of life... but their women are unrestrained, exotic, and are actually eager for the guiding hand of our civilization"

Could have been written by any imperial culture in recorded history. The fact that [technically AI are not real people] isn't what's relevant, it's how your beliefs are being shaped by this very old message.