If a man’s only self-perceived options in life is a woman like that or a piece of overpriced plastic, he’s simply not in the running for most women of reasonable attractiveness and character. Sorry, he’s just not. There are so many women that aren’t like that out there (you know that, right?). So why should women care about what a guy like this would do?
Trailer bitches aren’t among my competetors because the kind of guy I want isn’t lusting after them. Real dolls ain’t either. I hasten to say that these guys can’t afford a real doll anyway, so again, I’m left wondering how this phenomenon is really supposed to turn society upside down. It just sounds like a pipedream.
What blows me away (snrkk, mmph) is the whole “conversation” ability of this doll. The report says she’ll “chat with you for hours about your interests.” Huh? How? It seems like the doll will say more than “That’s interesting. Go on.” but still. What does it do? Just quote from Wikipedia for whatever topic you broach? Will it laugh at your jokes? Does it argue with you?
Honestly, I see that as nothing more than a reflection of the fact that we’ve got criminal penalties for doing so. Rather severe ones, in fact. Doesn’t actually stop everyone from doing it, but that and the taboo of doing so combine to make it more rare than it would be in a more socially approved situation.
Of course, any progress on the front of your genetically engineered catgirls will depend on us finally getting our ducks in a row regarding consent. Who or what do we require consent from (dildoes? animals? corpses? the brain damaged?) and how do we define consent for those enteties we do require consent from.
Note to self: All parody on the internet must be clearly labelled as such.
I guess the problem is that so many people say batshit insane things online that it’s impossible to tell who’s indulging in comic exaggeration and who’s dead serious.
QfT, although it goes both ways. A guy who would be satisfied with a sexbot isn’t the sort that most women would want anyway, and probably doesn’t have much success anyway. I see getting a sexbot if you weigh 400 pounds, have no teeth, and haven’t bathed since Christmas, but those kinds of people probably don’t have a lot of dates anyway.
OTOH, a woman who can be out-competed by a sexbot isn’t that much in demand either.
At some point the sexbots will be indistinguishable from people, at which point it becomes merely a question of prostitution.
Interesting twist on the Turing test, then - if you can’t tell if it’s live, or Memorex, has it passed the test?