Status Updates From The New Age of Sexism: How ...

“We should be concerned about the societal impact of encouraging generations of men to view women as ‘things’ they can customise, buy, control and use as sexual objects, rather than recognising them as while, autonomous human beings…such sexist attitudes result in harassment, discrimination and discomfort for women and girls.”

Escalation usually occurs for sexual violence offenders.
Even just consuming porn greatly increases chances of re-offending sexual violence crimes.
When men commit lower level sexual violence and get away with it, they feel emboldened to go a little further, then again, and again, sometimes culminating in rape and murder.

“rape is joy about overwhelming lust or attraction, but about power and control. Therefore, providing a potential rapist with an inanimate, defenceless object with which to simulate rape is such a grotesque notion that it could only possibly be contemplated in a society in which we are so inured to sexual violence that around 100k women in the UK alone experience rape or attempted rape each year”

“By suggesting that sex robots are a natural and even altruistic solution to the problem of sexual violence, we ingrain the idea that such sexual violence is biological and unavoidable and can only be mitigated and avoided, but not prevented. This plays into a plethora of societal issues surrounding rape myths and victim-blaming [women changing behaviour to avoid rape rather than just preventing it in first place]

…”No, because we recognise that such accommodation would risk normalising the behaviour, framing it as something inherent and unchangeable, instead of holding perpetrators to higher standards.”

“[the argument that sex robots offer a safe alternative for violent sexual abuse] demonstrates the extent of our complicity in men’s entitlement to sexual gratification. Imagine treating any other crime in the same way and the absurdity becomes clearer. Should we provide lifelike mannequins that spurt fake blood for aspiring murderers and other violent criminals to play with?”
…Cont

They make dolls specifically for raping (settings where they are “unappreciative” of touch)
And dolls of children. I can’t even write down the quotes they’re so horrifying. But e.g. some dolls made child-size, hairless, pictured next to teddy bears, described as ‘innocent’ ‘tight’ ‘cute’ ‘adorable’ ‘schoolgirl’ ‘there for the taking’.

Yet they try to portray it as a safe outlet??

Some argue that providing robots gives men an outlet for sex and violence without it having to be done to real women, but:
“Providing men with robots to abuse would only contribute to the normalisation of the dehumanising sexual objectification of women that lies at the root of our day-to-day experiences of misogyny and violence.”

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“If men were not constrained by the poisonous adage of ‘boys don’t cry’ and similar suffocating stereotypes that prevent them from being able to admit vulnerability or reach out for support and connection, there might be less male isolation in the first place.”
Sex robots cannot solve loneliness buddy

“The notion that dehumanising and objectifying women is the only viable solution to the problem of male isolate is absurd, particularly when you consider that loneliness is a problem impacting people of all genders! And it is also ironic to suggest that the hypersexualisation of women might be a viable solution to an issue that is in large part a result of dehumanising gender stereotypes…
Cont

“this comes at a very high cost to women and girls…it plays into the misogynistic assumption that any man has an inherent ‘right’ to sex and companionship, regardless of his behaviour, which teeters perilously close to incel ideology.”

Many companies perpetuate that their sex robots are a positive force in the world, reducing male loneliness.
“A spokesperson for RealDoll claimed: ‘We have had customers marry their dolls, say that we had saved their lives”

So you’re helping men live in psychosis and exacerbating the violence that women experience by reinforcing their sexual-object-status, and calling this a good thing ?

But many men “said they’d prefer their robot not to speak at all”
“the more companies make dolls that seem to have a mind of their own, the less male users seem to like them.”
“Many customers, it seems, would rather their ‘ideal woman’ remains mute.”

“Matt McMullen, CEO of [a sex robot company], told the BBC: ‘Many people who may buy a RealDoll because it is sexually capable come to realise it is much more than a sex toy. It has a presence in their house and they imagine a personality for her. AI gives people the tools to create that personality.” (because the AI can listen & watch and produce responses that please the man)

Absolutely horrifying stuff

Customisable sex robots to build your ideal (non-)woman.
“ ‘We blink. We move. We speak. And we do it all just for you.’, the robotic RealDolls intone, with curiously flat voices, in one promo video. ‘Our faces can be swapped to accommodate your desires.’ “

“[In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Pygmalion’s creation of a female statue that he creates because he believes real women are shameful and irrevocably faulty, whom he falls in love with, turns human and impregnates] might be the earliest classical reference to a sex robot (of sorts) and what’s significant is that the catalyst for her creation is her creator’s disgust and hatred of women.”

“Female-coded sex robots allow for the ultimate dynamic of ownership and sexual domination.”