Robot Girlfriend
The day has finally arrived: a man has built himself a robot girlfriend. (And another, less reputable source, here).
Of course, she's not really his girlfriend since he claims it isn't for sexual purposes. It's more of a servant. Who happens to be a beautiful woman (with an hourglass figure).
Aiko can do the cleaning, mix his favorite drink and read him newspaper headlines.
The inventor also seems to have a well-rounded and adult view of women:
He said: “Aiko doesn’t need holidays, food or rest, and will work almost 24 hours a day. She is the perfect woman.”
She's also built with a sense of touch, and will "react" to being touched or tickled. A point in Aiko's favor is that she will slap you if you touch her "too hard." I'd prefer it if she slapped you for touching at all, but at least it's something.
I'm of two minds about the entire robot girlfriend concept. On the one hand, maybe it would attract the misogynistic assholes -- they get a girlfriend they can treat like an object, and no real woman has to suffer for it. On the other hand, I can see it being yet another way to normalize treating all women like objects, and holding us to an impossible standard. Stepford, here we come.
One last quote I found interesting:
Le said: “Women usually try to talk to her. But men always want to touch her, and if they do it the wrong way she slaps them.”
That sort of sums it up right there, doesn't it? Some men do that to all women already; I'm not sure that giving them a fake woman to do it to with no consequences is a good idea.
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