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What Sex is Your Robot?

Posted by michael on from the battery-powered dept.

Ant writes "Technology Review has an article about how the more robots interact with humans, the more important their apparent gender becomes."

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  1. Re:Female. by Percent+Man · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    gender is such a human construct...

    Uh - so primitive (asexual) humans designed and constructed the X and Y chromosomes, adding them to the human genome? Dang, those guys^H^H^H^H folks were more advanced than we give them credit for!

    Or, wait - maybe you're saying that a person can't be a "human construct" without having a "gender." But that flies in the face of what the liberal wing of the feminist movement has maintained for thirty some-odd years - that the human is entirely genderless?

    I don't understand what you're trying to say... but I'm determined to make a joke out of it nonetheless. >;]