Sex Robot, I’ll Take Two
.Sex Robot – Roxxxy Rocky True Companion Robot – Cosmopolitan.com
Oh as if. For the past 50 odd years, an entire industry, probably bigger than any other on the planet, has grown around the notion of women’s insecurity about themselves. That is not to say that women historically have never cared about their appearance and presentation, but in simpler times, it was confined to such things such as looking presentable and smelling nice. Ostensibly, you w0uld think that these pursuits are for the intent of attracting males, but I’ve heard women say that these efforts are for other women…whatever that means.
I don’t begrudge the beauty and perfume business to embellish women’s charms, in fact, I think they are great blessings for men, even godsends. I am amused at the magazines and media that purport to tell women how to carry themselves in every aspect of their daily lives. When you look at the agenda of many women’s magazines, the subtext is usually about fashion, sex advice and dating tips. We’re not talking about lighting incense candles here, the topics in today’s magazines concern such things as “crazy hot sex moves” or “positions”.
It’s actually a very fine dance to give women the message of empowerment, but to also imply that you’d better wear this color outfit, wear that color lip gloss, or have your hair in the au courant style. Nevertheless, there must be a sizable audience for this kind of advice because of the proliferation of magazines such as Cosmopolitan.
On the other side of the gender fence, men’s magazines have also begun to flourish in the past 15 years or so. In the old days, a men’s magazine was about women. Apparently men are more into themselves now and would rather ogle themselves than other gals. The front covers of Men’s Health or Men’s Fitness have the identical headlines from month to month. If all that ab bustin’, sex tipping, career boosting, calorie helpin’ advice was any good, why would you have to have a monthly magazine to say the same thing?
As an aside, I have always wondered about Runner’s World. Really? A magazine about running? What are the exciting headlines, “Do you really need to alternate feet?”, “Tread Patterns for the New Year”?
Getting back to gender magazines and advice, all that this navel gazing advice has done is create a population of neurotic people. There are ideals put forth that are aspired to but never reachable. The consequence is the subject of the linked article. They are making robots now with the ideal gender characteristics. I seem to recall a story recently about a man marrying such a robot in Japan, but perhaps it was an Onion story.
Assuming most will not go the robot route for mates, we can expect dissatisfaction to be standard among people as they have to settle for 2nds and 3rds in their real lives. If they don’t settle, they’ll wind up waiting and risking their own sell by date as they wait for the perfect specimen. Better stock up on cologne and foundation.