• It's A Faaaahhkeah!
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    324 months ago

    Canadian researchers have found that men who hold virulent misogynistic opinions against women are more likely to express interest in having sex with robots

    Wait, so the people more likely to want to control a woman are interested in a woman you can control…

    Man how do you become a researcher, seems like an easy gig.

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      214 months ago

      The ‘this is plausible’ is actually the first 0.01% of research, finding out whether the plausible explanation actually holds water statistically (or whatever) and making sure no sort of bias goes into your results is the part that’s hard

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      4 months ago

      I think it’s more like:

      Men who think of women as objects are more interested in objects as women.

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        You could also interpret this as “men who hate women are more likely to want to replace women”

        We can’t know to what degree each dimension holds unless we do more experiments, but at that point how much do we really care?

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            14 months ago

            Sure. There’s only so much grant money to go around, though…

            This is the part where I’m not actually a researcher, but I wonder if taking robots out of it would help. The fundamental question is what misogynists want: to control women, replace women, or be neutral to women as they aren’t considered fully human anyway.

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              -34 months ago

              Tbh, just isolate them from society. Not forcibly, if they havent committed a crime, but like just some island or something.

              Hell, I bet a lot of them would be persuaded by some macho advertising.

              Easiest solution in my mind.

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                24 months ago

                I wonder if anyone’s made a secular monastery. The problem, of course, is that self-confinement only works for the ones that really mean it. If I had to guess, most misogynists are actually in the control category, and most of the loud MGTOW kind are more interested in conflict itself than what they’re actually talking about, so that doesn’t leave many potential monks.

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    Surely this is a good thing right? Le them take out their urges on someone/thing who cant actually be hurt.

    We may even see therapeutic sex robots some day.

  • Lladra
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    14 months ago

    Brought to us by the journal of shit we already know.

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    What definitions are they using for ‘having sex’ as opposed to ‘masturbating’? Does their definition consider fleshlights as sex or masturbation? Is it really any surprise that incels would prefer to masturbate instead of have a sexual relationship with women? The methodology seems questionable at best.