Episode 22: Sex Robots From Spaaace!
SF and Jen debate the use of sex robots. They melt their own brains talking about robots that can withdraw consent, the concept of sentience, and the ethical weirdness of sex toys modeled off of real people.
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Recently started listening to your podcast, I love it. Just wanted to offer a theory.
In your recent episode, when talking about the curiosity Rover, you said that you don’t know why men name things she. I think it’s a kinda latent homophobia. Like of you look at anything a (western) man spends an inordinate amount of time doting over (Inanimate objects) it is inevitably gendered as female. That ’67 Camero he spends 3 hours a week washing and waxing and being inside of can’t be called George because that’s gay. That gun he takes to the range and shoots and cleans and never leaves his side…
The boat he spent all that money on… Etc, etc and on and on.