IV. Imperfect Perfection: The Fembot, the Femme Fatale, & the Male Psyche The Fembot was not the first figure in media to tap into this desire to control and craft the uncontrollable. Whether it’s been building time machines or building people, characters in science fiction have long been concerned with the idea of perverting the forcesContinue reading “Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 4.1 of 7)”
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The Doll
He found the first hand sitting on a tuft of scrub grass, fingers splayed up in the air, like sprouts from a weed, the bloodless stump of a wrist balanced perfectly against the ground. Andrew was walking home from school across the moors when he spied the hand on the side of the road. HeContinue reading “The Doll”
Inspiration – Sounds Which Bind
Last week a dream of mine came true. I sat in a darkened, Seattle theater, three rows from the stage; a stage which used to house a large projector screen and a heavy damask curtain, but now was strewn with guitars and speakers. The Neptune Theatre had been renovated a year after I graduated college,Continue reading “Inspiration – Sounds Which Bind”
A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 3 of 7)
III. Man vs. Nature: The Fembot Debate before Computer Technology While issues of femininity and the debate about machine intelligence are at the forefront of the Fembot ‘trope’, there is a bigger, more pervasive issue that this character addresses. Whether the story she inhabits is using her character to question the nature of femininity (isContinue reading “A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 3 of 7)”
For Your Own Protection
Betty awoke with a jolt, so disoriented by the strangeness of her surroundings that she forgot that her name was no longer Betty, but Tara. The fear ebbed out of Tara’s lined face when she realized the pounding she heard was not someone at the door, but some punk kid’s bass, blaring down the streetsContinue reading “For Your Own Protection”