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.
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
Yeah, it’s one thing to guess, it’s another to have it in hard numbers.
I think it’s more like:
Men who think of women as objects are more interested in objects as women.
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?
Getting tenure is the hard part, after that you’re golden
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.
I’m a little annoyed by calling it ‘sex with robots’. It’s really just masturbation with an elaborate sex toy. Unsurprising result anyway.
Brought to us by the journal of shit we already know.
For the study, researchers analyzed data from 212 undergraduate Canadian students from an unnamed university.
Sample size sounds way too small to be throwing around “virulent misogyny” to me. For me, a sex robot sounds like two steps away from a more advanced fleshlight. In an economy where I’m not getting paid enough to have off time I could be cruising or dating with, and in an economy where I’m already spending MOST OF MY HOURS AWAKE toiling for capitalist pigs, plooking a robot sounds no different from rubbing one out with more steps; especially when the robot in question can’t spontaneously pop out a kid that’s gonna cost me a million dollars over the course of 18 years.
It’s depressing, but that’s actually a pretty good sample size for social science.
