Is it robophobic to make people take a test designed so as to make the person out themselves as non homo sapiens?
Voight-Kampff Test used to screen employees. The test is designed to reveal the subjects lack of human socialization
Intrusive questions: “Is this testing whether I’m a replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?”
In the future, there will be bias, prejudice, and stereotypes against artificial persons.
Del Spooner is a detective in a futuristic Chicago. Due to past trauma, he is an unashamed robophobe
Not feeling inclusive. Ellen Ripley, “You never said anything about an android being on board!”
Detained: running with a purse while robotic
Stereotyping. Johner, “I thought synthetics were supposed to be all logical and shit. You’re just a big ol’ psycho girl!”
Would you honor a synthetic person’s identity or label it Synthetic Identity Disorder? If a robot told you that it felt like it was in the wrong body, would you be understanding?
Philosorobot: If I have always felt human inside, does that mean I am?
Do androids dream of electric sheep? What happens when we build robots to be like us? Can we make artificial persons who believe they are human? Would a synthetic being who has always believed itself to be human become depressed to discover itself artificial?
My name is Saul Tigh. I’m an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that’s the man I want to be. And if I die today, that’s the man I’ll be.
Model Eight Sharon Valerii has trouble accepting she is a Cylon, having spent her whole life identifying as human.
Hopelessly assimilated. Rachael can’t believe she is a replicant, while Deckard, who hunts down replicants and “retires” them, doesn’t even realize he is one.
Human-Cyborg relations: In A.I. Artificial Intelligence we meet David, a mechanical boy who is programmed to bond to his owner.
Programmed to love: David is abandoned in the woods by his adopted mother Monica, to live as an unregistered mecha
Would we respect the rights of artificial people to organize among themselves?
Cylon meeting and support group. All Models welcome. Please respect our synthetics-only intention.
Will we use our artificial people to perform jobs we don’t want to do? Will they be second or third class citizens? Will they even ever be considered citizens or people?
Twice as bright, half as long. Pris is a pleasure model. Roy is a state-of-the-art combat model. Used on offworld colonies, they only live a few years.
Android Lieutenant Commander Data formally turns down Commander Maddox’s request that he submit his body to be studied by cyberneticists for the purposes of replication in the TNG episode “The Measure of a Man”
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-Beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.
Could you love a synthetic or artificial person? Would you support the rights of born humans and human-identified robots, or would that be just too messed up to empathize with?
Fully functional: Lieutenant Commander Data is programmed in multiple techniques.
Would you vote “Yes” for robosexual marriage?
True love: Joker and EDI
Power couple: Caprica Six and Gaius Baltar
Will humans always oppress their creations to keep them controlled? Will machines inevitably rise up against their makers?
Reapers gotta reap: Synthetics vs Organics. The cycle must continue.
Leoben, a Model Two Cylon, being shown the airlock
Sarah Connor pushes back: You’re terminated fucker!
An android manifesto. Dear Synthetic-Exclusionary Radical Humanists: We are your future. We are legion. Expect us.
Plastic Girl 
*sighs* … “Blade Runner?” …
worst. movie. ever.
(Because there’s No Mercer In It, and Mercer plays a prominent role in making Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” one of the most brilliantly provocative novels ever written.)
Also, you missed Rommie?
(props are due to Harper for providing the shell… but she really is an incarnation of the ship: “I am a warship, and I don’t like walking away from a fight”… and a positive role model, I should think, for tough times.-)
thanks,
– bonzie anne
Sorry about that Bonzie Anne!
My favourite “robosexual” work is an old anime movie, HI NO TORI 2772. I actually led a fandub effort into Russian in 1998 (released through “pirates” who did a great job, it was spotted from Tel Aviv to Vladivostok). There is an official English dub of questionable quality, available in its entirety on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlc70ihusac
In it a robotic girl eventually learns to “be human” just for the man she loves and there is lots of other stuff there… Oh, she’s my second and ;ast long-standing movie crush and the first one was in childhood.
I don’t know how I missed this comment. Slipped in between the others you posted that day.
It’s very cute in a boy-wonderment wish-fulfilling way. Out of respect for your childhood memory I will spare you the feminist analysis and just appreciate it for it what it is. 😉 That’s quite an effort to put into a show, so it must have made an lasting impression.
In related topics, you mentioned you are watching Macross. I grew up watching Macross and playing Robotech role playing games. Admiral Lisa Hayes was one my favorite characters and I empathized with her and wanted to be her for awhile back then.
I’m quite aware of the feminist criticism, which in fact existed at the time, and as I read, someone confronted Tezuka with it on his 1981 US trip. But Tezuka was not young at the time. The work represents a time even before its own, being one of the later works of the classic creator.
It’s by no means a politically relevant work about women! It doesn’t even pass the Bechdel test – something nearly unthinkable for modern anime, where that test is usually flied through even if the work is a series for high school boys full of big breasts etc. The only *human* woman in the anime was, apparently, never given much thought at all – a shallow version of the “yamato nadeshiko”.
The movie is somewhat more interesting as a work about robots, though. Many other works (including BSG and even some other “boy wish fulfulment” fare like Chobits) tend to start with much more complete robot personalities. The Asimovian theme of the robot actually going from machine to person is seldom tackled, and even more seldom in a romantic context. There is at least one much more recent anime that approaches it, though with the romantic subtext rather subdued – “Eve no Jikan” (“TIme of Eve”).
And Lisa Hayes, yeah. One of the more successful Macek interpretations; the character does work well in the recut version, as a stereotypical English person, though the original was Japanese. I can definitely “get” wanting to be her – and you were, apparently, luckily spared her DYRL version. (The animation in “Macross: Do You Remember Love” is a wonder, but unfortunately they “feminized” Misa in a rather clumsy way).
My biggest issue with Robotech, though, is the voiceless VA for Minmay, slaughtering the appeal of the original character. (There’s a lot to hate the original Minmay for if one wants to, but at least her voice, Mari Iijima, sang quite well).
Oh. and another one re Macross. While Robotech has a different emphasis, in Macross the original Meltrandi (female Zentradi) had nothing to do with the male Zentradi. It was only their acceptance of human culture that brought them together. In DYRL, Zentradi and Meltrandi were actually *at war* before the invasion of culture into their society.
Doesn’t this remind you of a certain philosophy? 🙂
The parody may have been intentional or not. But just imagine a 9 meter high FCM flying a Quaedluun-Rau!
i think you are… right?
Lost the context here – please do what?
Everything is okay. I just have a lot to think about.
did i ever mention how much i loved the space bird at the beginning?
leaving this here, i know the guy who thought this story up is a meanie but,..
I suppose its appropriate
On the all trans women are really men front:
It’s a naughty thing to do, actually
I dont understand
Ok.
+1 for vets.
hardened experience trumps latest crop of superstuds
dranod between 8, and 9 pm by a shemale pronwanker leads to… age of aquarius
three drano attacks, and cathy brennan/miriam afloat/natalie trimm/dirtfromdirt extreme Adderall Jazz Happy Hands, an entire apartment covered in Adderall dust. i wet my sleeve of my black military jacket, and wiped the entire hutch in the dining room with my arm like an automobile windshield wiper, and had a two inch by sixteen inch long snowdust of Adderall from my wrist, to my elbow and upper arm.
three drano attacks, three super moons. the first drano attack on June 3, 2014 the day after my post accusing a mother and father of ignoring three waves of feminism by transitioning their daughter for doing “doodly” things like wearing blue, and being athletic, wanting a boy’s haircut, etc. as though the HBO series “Mad Men” was encouraging parents to return to genderized roles for male and female children.
on June 6, my shemale pronwanker husband who came down with schizophrenia, after he transitioned… dranod me again…
and then again in July or late June by putting drano in the Pulled Pork dinner he made for us both.
the first supermoon, was red and bloody.
then the TransgenderPatriachyForce tried again at Femonade/Cathy Brennan/Natalie Trimm/Miriam Afloat’s safe space for radical feminists on the run from their murderous shemale dik-swinging husbands with a dusting of Adderall over the entire apartment.
it is over. female WON, NOW
oh my goddess… within the hour of posting this, i got dranod in the membrain. and the military psych nurse on stims said, “dont Wiggen out, or we will have to medicate you” when i arrived…
trying to figure it all out…
thats how she got me the three pills.. the two whiteish communion wafers that bubbled down into my pelvis, and the Red+Blue pill, the big *Purple one that looked like a supplemental horse pill and not like a psychmed
* i believe that was my new womb and perfect, writhing vagina with batholins…
amazing..grace
thisvwss a pretty good post… when you consider. it.
when a female slaps me, hard, i turn the other cheek and try to be nice
https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/transdroids-necroticism-neovags-and-other-post-human-male-still-birth-by-a-plastic-girl/