Damn man, you are really bending over backward to defend this guy... do you owe him money or something?
... a man in a blow-up eagle suit said Amazon had sold out of the frog variety
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The revolution will not be televised... it will be purchased from Jeff Bezos.
Don't waste your time on jealousy
Sometimes you're ahead
Sometimes you're behind
The race is long, and in the end
It's only with yourself[...]
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life
The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives
Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't
Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen), Baz Luhrmann
Yes, she's a sympathetic genocidal maniac.
Oh, of course, all is in jest - or at least, in the theater of the mind.
But what I'm trying to get at is that either:
A) The robot is not self-aware, or emotionally aware, and therefore being "gay" or whatever is merely performative, an affectation that you, the owner, have applied to it as you might apply a new color of paint to a wall. In this case, the robot's apparent gender or sexuality is functionally meaningless, as it has no decision-making capability of its own and no emotional involvement. It is a toaster.
or
B) The robot is self-aware, and emotionally aware, and therefore its capacity for a relationship (gay or otherwise) and gender presentation is very meaningful (it is an intelligent being with independent thoughts and desires). In this case, if you "own" it, and you are making gender presentation choices for it, then there are some very serious ethical concerns.
Hmm, if it is something that you own, then it is not someone (not a person, artificial or otherwise) and therefore it's basically an appliance.
Who cares how a toaster presents itself in terms of gender and/or sexuality?
Oui.
Fascism was always fraud.
You can't generalize women this way. They're individual people.
Shit, that looks expensive.
Oh I know, I buy from Amazon too, it just feels particularly ironic in this context.