You can think whatever you want to think of me. I will return in kind.dale coba wrote: Based on your flippant response
to DarkRexx's valid analysis
of the lazy and reproachable intellectual standards of some who don't care about the existence of information beyond their anecdotal experience,
- I take it you want me to think you are completely made of shit? not just full of shit?
It's important to keep things in perspective. The author of the original article that started this thread is demonstrably a cruel, judgmental xenophobe; he wrote what he wrote to get cheap laughs at the expense of people whom he doesn't know or care to know, and whose feelings he had to know would be easily hurt by his words. Okay, that is what it is. But what do you do with that once the ball is in your court? Do you use the old biblical measure of "a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye", or do you take a higher road? Just because you're actually being ridiculed and oppressed doesn't mean you can't also be a jerk.
Also: we are talking about people who want to hump plastic dollies (myself included!) -- that's kind of inherently silly, but then all kinds of sex are. If you're the sort of person that thinks being silly sometimes is a bad thing, then of course you're going to be bothered when someone else points it out. Personally I find that embracing the silliness allows me to take comments like the ones above with a grain of salt. As Voltaire said, "the superfluous is very necessary."
That said, some good political points have been made on this thread -- just not very eloquently. Ideologically, right-wing people would be opposed to fembots for the same reason that they're opposed to gay marriage or anything else not generally heteronormative (see: the Islamic country of Bahrain trying to outlaw department store mannequins a few years back, which would be the closest real world parallel), and left-wing people would be opposed to them for the same reason feminists are opposed to actual women being used as decoration (which they have historically been until very recently, and which affectations of still vehemently persist socially -- see this recent article on, again, mannequins being banned). But people aren't just their ideologies, either. They're people, who can be complex, compassionate, hypocritical, short-sighted, vain, intuitive, or brutal -- sometimes all of those at once. This discussion isn't going to be solved by pigeonholing anyone; being pigeonholed ourselves is what started it in the first place.
So maybe we all take a deep breath or two, and think about what we've all said, and try to remember that, at least on this board, we're all supposed to be on the same side.
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Seriously, I dont mind them having a battery operated girlfriend either. 
