Fembots Explained: The Sinister Reality of "Perfect" Robot Women & AI

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Love this topic because I am so bothered by how many real-life devices use female names and voices and how that affects our perceptions without realizing it.

I never realize how many movies about robot women existed, and barely that of guys

I find The Stepford Wives to be a very sinister take on this trope. Because the way this trope plays out, the men want to have their cake and eat it. We have male characters who love or are at least obsessed with their female love interest. They want a relationship with that person, but also want them to be the idealized version of the "perfect" woman they want in their head. And this often involves these women having their agency violated when their possessive partners (sometimes even stalkers) have them brainwashed to become their idea of a perfect woman. This trope is played out in films like Wife Like and Stepford Wives. Sometimes the women don't even have to be androids as was the case in Don't Worry Darling.

Pandora is another artificially created woman from Greek mythology, who is then “handed every bad thing in the world in a box but it’s somehow her fault she opens it out of curiosity and lets out all the bad things”

The original stepford wives was more horror than the new one.

This is such a prevalent trope. Thank you for covering it!

this is a real trope not only in movies, I've heard many guys saying they would prefer a robot over a real woman. Well, at least my bf is not like that

How ironic that when I was a teen age girl the first time I was introduced to the idea of female empowerment was in anime sci fi about female robots , Ghost in the Shell , Alita battle Angel, saber marionette j, I couldn’t believe what I was seen it blew me away, all I saw in media growing up was the smurfette syndrome , the girls robots were a total power fantasy to me , the girl got to be the main character, she was stronger and better fighter than all the man in their respective shows she got to be immortal , those ideas a that kind of female I never seen before, it blew my world

My favorite fembot movie was Ex Machina. It seemed like a satire that was lampooning tech bro culture and men who fantasize about fembots. The men get what they deserve in that movie.

"dont worry darling" had a pretty interesting take on this trope

Is it just me? I never fantasised about a fembot partner, but I did dream of androids doing my chores...

Not a robot. -Janet, the Good Place

Just have Austin Powers dance for them. They try to resist him but can't and their heads will explode.

i literally saw The Stepford Wives for the first time yesterday! good timing

Another amazing video! Such an intriguing topic; I remember a show with an adjacent theme called Dollhouse. They weren't quite robots, though. (Joss Whedon and women's bodily autonomy could be it's own video lol)

Maybe they should start including gender studies in elementary school. Starting the discussion earlier might help sort out the problems with the genders earlier.

Although the "perfect woman" doesn't actually exist, honestly I think it's a little long awaited narratives about the female characters, that although are able to meet the high expectations, basically her POV is she doesn't feel good enough, or somehow for the plot she's condemned for meeting the criteria for the impossible standards,

Am I imagining it or does the audio and picture not sync anymore around 10:53

Karen from SpongeBob is the OG fembot