A Robot Wife Might Be the Key to Happiness for You and Me
Feminists really won’t mind if you marry a robot woman
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Sorry to shatter your dreams. Elon Musk isn’t going to build robot wives any time soon.
The pictures shared on social media over the last months of him making out with various robot beauties were fake. AI-generated, of course.
But as long as the euphoria over the fake announcement lasted, anti-feminists rejoiced.
Antifeminism Australia shared the images with the following premature celebrations text:
“Elon Musk is now working on robot wives. This will be a huge game changer and make women obsolete. He will completely solve the dating crisis for men in the west. Western women will be pissed.”
What they didn’t expect was that many women — not just feminists — would love the idea. They weren’t pissed, they were pleased.
If only it were true.
Women immediately saw the advantages of robot wives. They would not only make men’s lives better. Women would also benefit immensely from them.
It would be a win-win situation.
As Ana wrote:
Actually, if it does cone to pass, it will be something positive. That sound you hear? That’s not women being pissed. That’s women cheering.
“We are thrilled with this news! It means you won’t bother us with your unwanted attention.”
And Terri pointed out that robot wives aren’t just for men to enjoy:
“Hey, we could all get robot wives! I want one! She could help with the housework, and the cooking, and serve as a workout partner, and let me drive in the HOV lane… this is AWESOME!!!”
Some women like Taxidermy_bat_318 loved the idea but were concerned about the price point. We don’t want any man who wants a robot wive to miss out.
I think it’s a great idea!!! You should make a ton of them and sell them for a really reasonable price so that all men can get one or two. Most women will be happy about that because we’re pretty mad about the abortion bans.
Women’s feedback on the dawn of robot women was overwhelmingly positive.
Unfortunately, their and my hopes were dashed.
The story had already been debunked months ago.
France 24 reported back in May:
According to some internet users, pictures of Tesla founder Elon Musk kissing humanoid female robots are proof of Tesla’s final stages of production for a “robot wife”. But the images are AI-generated, including work by the same artist who created a viral image of the pope in a puffer jacket.
The pictures resurfaced a few days ago and have raised new hopes. But alas, it’s still not true.
Like most of the commentators, I immediately had a positive reaction. I see many advantages of robot women taking care of men who are incapable of arousing the interest of real women.
I’ve given up hope that these men will ever do the work of becoming equal partners to adult women. They don’t want to make any effort and don’t understand that the world doesn’t owe them a real-life personal servant for free.
There’s no point in trying to convince them that their lives would be better if they treated women like equal humans instead of commodities. That they would profit just as much as women.
But it’s their choice. I would love for them to get what they want out of life.
Life is short. Everyone should be as happy as possible.
As long as it isn’t at the expense of others. Or, in this case, at the expense of real women. So I’d be pleased if they could live out their lives peacefully with robot wives.
If we had robot wives for all the men who can’t seem to find the traditional housekeeper they’re looking for, we could solve the so-called “dating crisis.”
Young men incapable of taking care of themselves and stepping up as partners for emancipated women would no longer have to spend their lives alone — harassing women on the internet to fill their empty hours.
Women would be spared the attacks of unsatisfied incels who are bothered by seeing them enjoying themselves on social media. Women who are simply living their lives.
The fact that their robot wives can’t bear their offspring is an added bonus, as some of the more snarky commentators mentioned.
So you’re going to pay to take yourself out of the gene pool. Finally a Musk invention I can get behind for all his fans.
Maybe we can add robot children to the mix to complete the dream.
I’m honestly a bit disappointed that this is fake and no one is working on building a robot wife. For now, men will have to make do with animated AI romance companions on their cell phones instead of enjoying a life-size robot companion.
According to the New Yorker, these romantic chatbot services already have millions of users.
Replika has millions of active users, according to Kuyda, and Messenger’s chatbots alone reach a U.S. audience of more than a hundred million.
Sure, there are already lifelike sex robots for 20,000 dollars apiece.
But they are way too expensive for the average cellar dweller in question and pretty useless to most women.
I’ll take the Mrs. Doubtfire version if I must.
What about the other use cases? What about the cooking and the cleaning and the organizing of our private lives? I want a robot wife for that. I don’t even care what she looks like.
I’ll take the Mrs. Doubtfire version if I must.
It’s not like we don’t understand why men want traditional wives. We do. It’s just so much more comfortable to have someone take all the daily drudgery off your hands.
We’d all love to have someone who takes care of us. Preferably for free. Few people can afford a housekeeper these days. I’ve read they cost $2,000 to $2,500 a month.
Robot wives would be the perfect solution for all of us. For both men and women. We’d all be happy to have one.
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Funnily, if you replace "robot" with "Asian" it's what (racists) told my husband when he married me. That said, I'm definitely not working as expected in that regard ;)
A robot housekeeper & personal assistant sounds great. It just shouldn’t be called a “wife”.