An AI journal hounded by feminists for daring to use a picture of a robot maid on its cover has delivered an adroit rebuke in the form of the cover to its next issue.
The 29th volume of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (Jinkou Chinou Gakkai)’s journal featured a android maid with a broom on its cover, drawn in anime style, and was picked up by random Twitter feminists who saw the cover as “discrimination against women” and “totally creepy,” the gist of their objections being that by publishing a picture of a woman holding a broom the men behind the publication were obviously suggesting a woman’s place is in the home.
These objections were soon picked up by such bastions of investigative journalism as the Huffington Post, and soon the society had a PR storm on its hands.
The society responded with a boilerplate grovelling apology in January, stating “we apologise deeply for causing discomfort” and that it “in no way intended to suggest women should be doing the cleaning and will be deeply reflecting on its lack of consideration of such matters.”
The journal appears to have attracted more criticism for not sticking to its guns and for publishing the overly supine apology than it did for the original criticism, with many concerned that by overreacting it set a negative precedent for similar issues – not least with an established academic research society feeling it had to formally apologise solely on the basis of a few barely cogent 140 character tweets.
The journal itself is an exceedingly obscure one with limited distribution and circulation in the hundreds or thousands – although after the scandal the printers apparently ordered an additional run of several hundred copies for some reason.
The real response seems to have come in the form of the cover of the next issue, which features the same female android – but this time from her perspective, looking down on a little boy whilst reading a copy of Hegel’s “The Phenomenology of Spirit” – and received immediate acclaim for its obvious wit and thoughtfulness, and even some requests for an anime adaptation:
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This is what happens when the Patriarchal society falls.
Good job on feminizing yourselves, Western World.
One hell for the other? How about neither?
POOP!
In b4 Lewis' Law.
Is it to much to ask for one day where all the feminist of the world spontaneously combust? They don't have to die all I ask is they lose the ability to use twitter, blogs or tumblr...or simply typing in general.
Why ask? Although I think enslaving them all is a better way to go. It will give them a new perspective on how privileged they were, as they are worked slowly to death.
A woman who allows herself to be enslaved doesn't turn me on. If that happened I hope some would fight back and form a resistance, singling out some nice ones for me.
Mind break fetish?
@22:07 - but only an enslavable woman would allow her mind to be broken... so, fuck no?
I prefer my women to have equal parts sugar and spice. Sweet with the ability to be spicy when the situation requires it. Throw in a bit of sour too.
If feminists do become equal then your wish will come true as they become wage slaves as men already are. Then we can all be miserable together.
I have met some awesome women who call themselves feminists. Without feminism there wouldn't be something like Queen's Blade. I prefer to differentiate between good and bad feminists by calling the bad ones feminazis... they're the ones who would attack something like Queen's Blade, with full irony.
There's no such thing as a "good" femitard.
I'm not talking about femitards, I'm talking about feminists. Women who don't put men down unless they're really actually being idiots (like when sexual slavery happens) and are actually worthy of respect. To put all feminism down is like supporting the opposite, which is just as bad as what you assume feminism is. You keep fapping to yous subservient, weak little girls... I like my women to kick ass and that idea wouldn't exist if feminist ideas didn't exist.
No, all feminism is shit. It subscribes to the idea that women have all the issues and men have none.
If you want equality for both sexes, then you are an equalist.
Humanist.
@00:59 I do agree with you about what is needed these days in progressive societies, but there was a time when boundaries that needed to be torn down were torn down under the name of "feminism", and that was the only real feminism, at least on this side of the planet
also in the sense that society used to put women on a hierarchy that placed them clearly bellow men for a very long time... and in some places in the world (especially my country, India) still do... if nothing else, to empower women to believe that they deserve to think of themselves to be better than 2nd class citizens is pretty much feminism... and while men also have not been treated equally in various ways either, they've never been placed as 2nd class citizens
but I agree that "equalism" is far more important, especially these days, at least in western society
@jungle evil exactly, and they justify their point with two wrongs make a right kind of reasoning. Since at some point women were in a 2nd class position. Yet forget about how others were treated say the blacks, or how the Chinese/Asians were treated in the west. Some of them being men, and treated far lower than 2nd class. More like farm animals.
@0:22
Nope, all feminists are as bad as machists. The term you are looking for is equalists.
"I like my women to kick ass and that idea wouldn't exist if feminist ideas didn't exist."
The idea of kick ass females is as old as mankind. If you really believe that feminists created it them you have been brainwashed.
The only decent "feminists" are the ones that are ignorant of how much utter bullshit the professional feminists, the feminists organizations, and the feminist academia spout.
Basically, almost every single feminist that have any real power are of the shitty kind - the only ones who aren't are the "footsoldier" grunt feminists who just think feminism = equality, because they don't know any better.
Egalitarian, "equalists" or humanists is usually what people who want actual equality (not more female privileges), but also have a clue about feminism, call themselves.
@01:11 - of course, almost any idea has existed for centuries, there have been actual ass kicking women in history such as Hippolyta or Jhansi Ki Rani. I don't attribute modern feminism to making it possible for ass kicking women to exist, but I said that "FEMINIST IDEAS", such as that "women have a right to fight if they want to", have helped to make the idea of a female fighter more acceptable today. A century ago, even though there were women fighting in stories, those stories would be far less popular and taken seriously than they would be today. And today there are still people who laugh at the idea of women being allowed to fight, just because they can't be as strong as the strongest men. Even more than that, they still wish women could be kept "in their place", meaning that they shouldn't even have an opinion of their own to be able to speak back with. Not too long ago, there were places in even the US where men in the family could gather to discuss political and war discussions but women were told to keep out because those were "discussions for men".
If we ever hope for equality we need to quit organizing by gender. If "feminists" want equality they need to stop solely worrying about women's issues.
The truth is that the real feminists don't want gender equality, they want "Animal House" equality. "Some of us are just a little more equal than others..."
Just like politicians use the money of a country to hire terrorists (without telling you), they also pay women (usually their own spouses and daughters) to be "feminists". Really, I personally know some of them that are paid just for that.
Feminism is no more than a bribe to get votes, and a clever way to legally steal money from a citizen's pocket. Their arguments are silly and have already been refuted by everyone with a functioning brain, but that doesn't stop them to spend their enormous free time repeating propaganda, as if trying to justify their salary somehow.
In sum, as long as you have those politicians in charge, feminists are going to pest your day. Without the support from politicians, those parasites would have to work for a living.
The only way this picture is unacceptable is if the word "housewife" is completely removed from dictionaries.
Ironically, it's incredibly unfeminist to say a female can't or shouldn't be seen doing something.
The feminist ideal is that all women are Conan and all men stay in the kitchen.
that sounds more like the feminazi ideal...
Or femimoron.
Anyone does what they want to do. If a man or a woman enjoys sweeping, why see a problem with it ... ?
That's kinda the case though. The more moderate feminists are significantly less vocal than the Feminazi.
@02:47 - what can you do? They're chill like that...
"That's kinda the case though. The more moderate feminists are significantly less vocal than the Feminazi."
The problem is, the moderate feminist do not distinguish themselves from radical. They do not say something when the radical feminist demanding something unfair and outrageous from male side.
I believe all mindset of feminist is: "If the situation give guys the advantage, we speak out loud. If the situation give advantage to woman, even if it is unfair to guy, keep silent and just enjoy the ride"
Since all the radical feminist demand give advantage towards woman, the moderate feminist keep their mouth shut.
nah it doesnt work that way, they wanted that and at the same time be treated as a princess. conan? perhaps Xena Warrior princess
Xena was fucking hot, so more Xenas is fine with me.
Only if Xena was obese and ugly... We all know that feminazis think beautiful and "fit" women are sexist that should either become ugly or hide from public eye.
They just want the option to be able to do that if they want to. Are you saying men can't work in the kitchen if they want to? I like to make my own god damn fucking sandwiches, thank you. I don't want them touching my sandwiches. Next you'll be saying that more boys joining ballet is a feminist conspiracy of some kind.
It's one thing to be free to walk into a kitchen and fix myself a sandwich, it's another to be forced to be in the kitchen because of my gender.
>Next you'll be saying that more boys joining ballet is a feminist conspiracy of some kind.
You mean it's not?
@23:05 wasn't he saying the same thing? he said he wants to make his own sandwiches, not get a girl just so he can have her do it for him
@01:04
Not even close to what he was saying, maybe you should hold off on that pre-disposed bias so you can read what he said a tad more clearly?
@03:19
Actually anon 01:04 did get me right. That's exactly what I meant. I don't know why what I said didn't seem more clear for other people...
more like all men are indentured servants or dead and they have cocks
More men are dead and... have cocks? I know this isn't exactly a forum for gentlemen and scholars, but some punctuation might at least help to make your comment less totally pointless. It'll also help people like me feel less like some kind of elitist snob for attempting to make sense with my markings and wordsies.
23:22
how about you suck my dick, femcunt
IF you want i can teach you real english for just a few bucks.
@23:47
They might if it wasn't too small to be seen by the naked eye..
Actually the feminist ideal is that there are no men in the world, only women. The exception is the one male to be their husband, who is the most best man in the world, but still subservient to his wife. And yes all woman deserve to be with the best, because every woman deserves the best of everything.
Of course all dangerous work is to be done by robots.
I'm sure if the feminists got this perfect world of them they would immediately start a war between the hetero and lesbian feminists.
Feminists, MODERN RADICAL feminists, do not have sane, nor ethical goals.
>Actually the feminist ideal is that there are no men in the world, only women.
And since they've all got penis envy, their clits are now replaced with cocks. That's how man-hating bull dykes roll.
Jeez, you guys aren't being vicious enough... weak!!
You monster, the dangerous work are for man, poor robots...
Nihilism.
The feminist ideal is for women to become men.
Ironic, isn't it?
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Feminists started fighting inequality but now they promote it.
Noo ,become all ative lesbians and F all passive women...
Depends on which branch, really. Some claim that men have vagina-envy and others claim that all feminine trails are bad, then there are those who claim all masculine traits are bad.
Exactly so if they saw a picture of Hilary Clinton sweeping a floor on some random day they'd go and call her as staining on feminism? My dad sweeps floor sometimes, so what? My mom actually goes to the gym. Why is this a problem? Nobody cares what you do. Maybe this robot also fights like mahoromatic. Anyone who complains about this probably never watched anime.
AHHHHHH MAHOROMATIC THE AUTOMATIC MAIDEN......
Loved that series........ triti
Finally, someone who actually know something about philosophy of feminism. I think most of mainstream "so-called-feminist" are actually "feminazi" or "female-chauvinist"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bvOxsnvSXs&gl=CA [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bvOxsnvSXs&gl=CA]
Ironically most loud feminists today are bitter virgin girls and lesbians who hate men and therefore they are not feminist at all, but chauvinists.
Yet no one criticized the Jetsons for having a robot maid. Maybe it was because it didn't look feminine enough for them?