HE SAID/SHE SAID: To Bot or Not to Bot #SexBots

Featuring OD, Camille, Blue, Mercedes, JuJu, and Wes from The Verdict Podcast! 👨🏾‍💻It makes sense that women especially might be disturbed by sex-bots. There are vastly more of the female variety and it’s all a bit Stepford Men’s Association: femme machines drafted in to replace the “faulty” (assertive, rebellious, breathing) real versions. In a certain vision of male utopia, instead of real women and their buzzkill notions about equality and self-will, men would return home to find chick-bots such as Harmony clattering around the kitchen, in the manner of an eroticised C-3PO.