Status Updates From Electric Dreams: Sex Robots...

When we build bonds and societies that are less isolated, capital is undermined; a communal home is more self-sustaining. Where several people are caregivers for a child, less money is spent towards childcare companies.

first chapter down and it is pretty interesting. but I have seen 2~3 misspellings/typos in just the first chapter, and considering this is a short book, it is kinda disheartening

To reject these claims is easy; what’s more interesting is to look at what the existence of this obsession says about our society today. If we look at sex robots from non-capitalist or non-heteronormative lenses … we can begin to see how they attempt to entrench dying systems, prompt political regression, and stop us from considering what else we might be working towards.

“The British colonialist project was rigidly heteronormative- in decolonial feminist theory terms, it was cisheteropatriarchal- and it expended great energy towards delegitimising and deconstructing pre-colonialist ways of practicing sex, gender, family-making and intimacy.”