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Monday, December 15, 2008 12:00 AM

WTF of the day

A Canadian inventor's new female android is like the perfect woman, designed by a sociopath in 1955.

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  • Monday, December 15, 2008 10:50 AM

    You do realize this isn't a real live woman, right?

    Its a machine. Vibrators don't have free will either and I don't see a problem with that. But even if you did have woman-hating sociopaths who feel like such an android does all they'd ever want from a woman and thus didn't want anything more to do with real women, how is that a bad thing? I'd much rather they have a doll to take their BS out on, than be forced to prey on real women. Someone who is fulfilled by a robot, is not someone I'm lining up to date.

    I guess the intentions and ideals of the designer do project a sexist attitude, but I'm having a hard time being outraged just by that. One guy out there thinks women from the 50's are the ideal, film at 11.

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