Through the fertile imagination of Amanda Hess comes her dystopian view of fembots that, apparently, have morphed from teeny-bopper sci-fi to slaves of Youtube likes.
Putting aside Hess’ structural challenges, like the fact that Dr. Frankenstein created a male monster first, she provides an interesting insight into how the raging hormones of teenage boys having sex fantasies about women because there’s no chance they’re going to have actual sex with actual females, ends up reflecting misogynistic control needs. Who knew guys were so complex?
Are there any men who care about Kylie Jenner (or any Jenner, for that matter)? Are we watching women play out their dreams of bot popularity on Youtube?
There is apparently a world of things happening to the feminine mystique about which I, for one, am totally unaware, but is framing women’s belief in what men are thinking. Is this what men are thinking? Is this what women think men are thinking? If not, how does this get airplay at the New York Times, and does this exacerbate the feelings of hurt and ill-motives that have come to characterize social interaction?
To put it into more concrete terms, are women on college campuses imputing this sexual cum control and dehumanizing vision of women to men, causing them to mistrust or fear men? Does this drive the allegations of abuse, even rape? Are “influencers” like Hess pushing a twisted vision of toxic masculinity on impressionable young women so that they can no longer engage in normal social interaction without the belief that men are the enemy?
Is this what women want in their relationships with men, fear, anger, even hatred, manifesting in attacks, division and misery? If not, why is this embraced rather than rejected?
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