The memes make themselves

  • zephorah@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer. S5E15. I Was Made to Love You. Warren, what a gem of a human being that character was.

    Seriously though. We’ll never be obsolete for the same reason we will never have bodily autonomy: reproduction. Until science devises a way for men to reproduce themselves in a lab. And, yes, please, do that, Science. Roe never would’ve fallen had this already been a thing.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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      9 days ago

      2 things:

      1, hello fellow Buffy fan! God I love that show

      2, don’t hate me for not citing, it’s late, I’m tired, if I remember I’ll find a source tomorrow. But I read semi recently that it may be possible with current tech to use skin cells to make either sperm or egg cells, enabling queer couples to have children that are biologically the offspring of both parents, regardless of the sex make up of the couple. As a gay man myself, that is a very exciting prospect. As a lonely person who’s unlikely to ever be in the situation, it’s less exciting. But I’m still excited for others!

      But yeah, we may well be on our way to a world where it’s possible for biological males and females to have children without a partner of the other sex. Which is interesting, but I don’t think it’ll solve sexism.

      • zephorah@lemm.ee
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        9 days ago

        Sexism no. Lack of body autonomy? Probably.

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        Even pre fall of Roe, it’s never been as easy for a woman to get a tubal, not like it is for men to get vasectomies, and not due to the different procedural complexity.

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        Mileage varies, always, but even with kids, a woman is often refused a tubal, pre 35 yrs of age. Especially when single. Future potential husbands get cited. Yes, really. The last person I personally knew who was refused a much wanted tubal was a 26yo mother of 3, and it was 2018. The health insurance wasn’t through a religious institution either. (That can also matter, yes).

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        “You’re not married, and you might decide later to…”

        • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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          8 days ago

          I’m familiar with that bullshit. A good friend of mine has a history of really severe medical issues in her family, and tried to get her tubes tied at 30, as she and her husband decided not to have kids, and adopt instead. Her doctor didn’t want to let her do it in case they changed their minds. It’s none of their fucking business. That’s not okay in any way, shape, or form. :/

  • Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 days ago

    I really dont understand the dot connection from sexbots existing to women becoming secound class citizens or whatever they think will happen. Its as if they think women only exist for sex and marriage and won’t have a purpose without it. And that’s not even to go into their assumption that every single person will decide that having a human connection is pointless and can be replaced by a non sentient(god I hope so) sexbot.

    • GraniteM@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      (Assuming such technology could be viable and not, you know, horrifying like it sounds it would be…)

      [Headlines ten years after the invention of the robot “wife”]

      WHY ARE GENERATION ALPHA WOMEN KILLING TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE?!

      and

      GEN ALPHA WOMEN SAY THEY ARE HAPPILY SINGLE: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM??!

      and

      DEATHS FROM LONELINESS AMONG GEN ALPHA MEN ARE WAY UP: WHAT’S GOING ON?!

    • renzev@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      I really don’t understand the dot connection from sexbots existing to women becoming secound class citizens

      It’s the same thinking that leads to “AI will replace programmers/artists/writers” but with extra misogyny. People in power don’t actually believe this garbage, it’s all a marketing gimmick to appeal to losers and incels. Nevertheless, this kind of rhetoric does real societal harm. Same as with musks hyperloop – hype up a fake idea and grab the cash.

      • Seleni@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        The scary thing is I think some of them (like Muskrat) do believe it… even though they have no idea how AI even works or how to build a robot like in the pic. They just come up with the idea and then hand off all the actual planning to others, and then strut around like roosters in a barnyard feeling oh-so-smart.

        And these rich idiots want this stuff in order to keep all the money for themselves instead of paying an actual human for art/programming/writing (in the case of AI) or so they don’t have to deal with a real human being with their own needs and wants (in the case of a robot ‘wife’). They just don’t want other ‘inferior’ people around them, period.

        Which just goes to show what they think of marriage, I suppose.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
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      9 days ago

      I feel like it would free a lot of women to focus on their careers and stuff as opposed to being conditioned to find a husband.

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      So you’re suggesting that people - especially those in power - seem to think that women are equals who have individual identities and worth?

      I’m not a woman, so I’m probably not qualified to comment; and I’m not intending to attack you personally, only address what you say here; but it does seem like in many cases women get a bum rap.

      What is a dot connection?

  • mvirts@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Also if anything it’s men who will become obsolete, probably already are we just don’t yet have an incentive to use our biological tech to make it happen.

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        Delivery men, construction, manufacturing, mechanics, plumbers and a lot of other blue collar jobs that are mostly men and pretty difficult to automate so far

  • Gadg8eer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I’m not even a woman, THIS shit is why I hate humanity. YOU. DO. NOT. EVER. DEFINE. SOMEONE. ELSE’S. SOUL. FOR. THEM. If my mom says she’s too busy, I ADMIT she’s not obligated and get myself a fucking sandwich because she’s my mother and I actually care about HER. My dad is the same, he respects her because she’s his wife and not just for appearances.

    So now we have men being incel assholes who think they are fucking “owed” sex, and women being backstabbing, TERF elitists who don’t understand “eye rape” is just code for “if I don’t find you sexy, you can’t be in the same room as me” bullshit, because both sides care more about fucking SOCIAL STATUS BY PROXY than ACTUAL HUMAN DECENCY.

    I CARE about my family, but the rest of you? I literally only can empathize with your children now, EVERY ADULT in the WORLD has made themselves clear; You love hurting each other’s children because they never figure out who hurt them until it’s far too late for justice.

    You will make good practice dummies when I fucking shoot you all, burn in hell with me.

  • Mabel [She/Fae/Its]@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I’ll be headed to the junkyard with all the rusty cybertrucks in a few years when he finishes this very clear non AI generated image project! I’ll no longer be useful! WOMEN ARE FINISHED.