Technofetishism

Question 1

What do ASFRians mean by hacking the system

Answer 1

• Being different, like robots
• They do this by turned on by a female Android that wants to kill
• controlling an Android and dominating it makes them compensate for their male castration anxiety

Question 2

What does De Fren think that people do when unmasking the body?

Answer 2

-they want to see the robot break down to see what it’s made out of because their gaze is wanting to see what’s beneath the scene to see what causes the anxiety and not pleasure

Question 3

What do ASFRians say about BDSM in what they do? What does De Fren say about feminizing objects?

Answer 3

• they don’t objectify woman they feminize objects,
• the problem with this is that it is unclear how the feminization of objects is separate from the objectification of woman
• it only shows their interests are in the non living and not the living which raises the nature of necrofelia

Question 4

What are the two groups of ARSFrians?

Answer 4

One wants a robot that is totally artificial

The other wants combination of human and robotic

Question 5

How is the connection between subject and object a fetishism a result of both biological and cultural reasons?

Answer 5

• Because many of the men are attracted to robots grew up during second wave of feminism
• so it was hard to have these values and respect woman but also have these sexual impulses
• so the robots represent a simplified playing field where they don’t have to worry about gender politics or social mistakes
• their use of the robots can be seen as a metaphor for the effects of having the adolescent desire on a social regulated body (human and inhuman)