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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Canadian researchers have found that men who hold virulent misogynistic opinions against women are more likely to express interest in having sex with robots

Wait, so the people more likely to want to control a woman are interested in a woman you can control...

Man how do you become a researcher, seems like an easy gig.

[–] Droggelbecher 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The 'this is plausible' is actually the first 0.01% of research, finding out whether the plausible explanation actually holds water statistically (or whatever) and making sure no sort of bias goes into your results is the part that's hard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's one thing to guess, it's another to have it in hard numbers.

[–] Zachariah 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think it’s more like:

Men who think of women as objects are more interested in objects as women.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You could also interpret this as "men who hate women are more likely to want to replace women"

We can't know to what degree each dimension holds unless we do more experiments, but at that point how much do we really care?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, if you wanted to do therapy programs, that kind of information would be helpful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sure. There's only so much grant money to go around, though...

This is the part where I'm not actually a researcher, but I wonder if taking robots out of it would help. The fundamental question is what misogynists want: to control women, replace women, or be neutral to women as they aren't considered fully human anyway.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tbh, just isolate them from society. Not forcibly, if they havent committed a crime, but like just some island or something.

Hell, I bet a lot of them would be persuaded by some macho advertising.

Easiest solution in my mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if anyone's made a secular monastery. The problem, of course, is that self-confinement only works for the ones that really mean it. If I had to guess, most misogynists are actually in the control category, and most of the loud MGTOW kind are more interested in conflict itself than what they're actually talking about, so that doesn't leave many potential monks.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

It doesnt have to be all or nothing. A dozen incels gone is a dozen incels gone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Getting tenure is the hard part, after that you're golden