What Are Feminists P*ssed Off About Today? Amazon’s Alexa Isn’t Feminist Enough
Democrats Have Created Their Own Memo To Combat The Original Memo That Has Yet To Be Released
January 24, 2018Cecile Richards Is Resigning!!
January 25, 2018NOTE: yes, that IS Alexa in a pink apron, because according to feminists, wearing pink aprons makes you an anti-feminst devil.
ANYWAY
Soooo because Alexa is a mechanism of super-lib Jeff Bezos (King of Amazon), she’s a “feminist”
Oh.
For.
The.
Love.
Of… pic.twitter.com/xu5XE3oYvl— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) January 24, 2018
You’re a robot, Alexa.
— Tony Deadpan (@tonydetiger610) January 25, 2018
Yup.
Aaaaaanyway. Feminist are P*SSED… because Alexa isn’t a REAL feminist… SHE’S A WOMAN SLAVE.
Maybe the best way to represent women as technological apparatuses is to avoid doing so in the first place. https://t.co/MjOR9IDH1b
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) January 24, 2018
The deranged article begins:
If you ask Alexa, the voice-assistant software in Amazon Echo devices, if it’s a feminist, it will respond in the affirmative. “I am a feminist. As is anyone who believes in bridging the inequality between men and women in society,” it continues. At Quartz, Leah Fessler recently noted that it’s a vast improvement over just a year ago, when Alexa would take abuse like “you’re a bitch” or “you’re a slut” in stride. “Well, thanks for the feedback,” the robot used to say. Now, it disengages instead, saying something like, “I’m not going to respond to that.”
As waves of sexual-harassment allegations crash against the shores of work culture, now is a good time to support women—even robots with female personas like Alexa. But let’s not give Amazon too much credit. The company gave Alexa a woman’s voice and name in the first place, and then set it up for ire and abuse by giving Alexa the impossible task of responding accurately to an infinity of requests and commands.
Women don’t win here—only Amazon does, by reaping praise for having partly solved a problem that it first created.
Get that? Alexa is totally NOT a feminist because she was made to respond to your requests and commands.
WOMEN SHOULDN’T HAVE TO DO SH*T. #FEMINISTING
Amazon’s supposed feminist intervention is of this second kind. The company didn’t invent misogyny, but its Echo line of products and services, which make use of the personal assistant Alexa, played to sexist tropes before the company stepped in to help remedy matters.
The moment one is tempted to call Echo or Home a “she,” a battle has already been lost. A truly feminist Alexa, one that might decouple service work from passive femininity, wouldn’t have been cast as “Alexa” to start with, but perhaps as a baritone named Alex instead.
See? Feministing means MEN ARE SLAVES AND WOMEN ARE QUEENS AND WOMEN SHOULD NEVER BE SERVERS BECAUSE MEN SUCK AND THEY SHOULD BE SUBSERVIENT UUUUGHHHGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
I quit this world. Done with this crap.
If you’re wondering who wrote this insane drivel… well, it’s this shaggy self-hating soyboy.
I’m sure he carries tampons in his murse… in solidarity.
Feminists: WE DESERVE A VOICE! LISTEN TO US! WE MUST BE HEARD! WE WILL NO LONGER BE SILENCED! WOMEN CHANGE THE CONVERSATION!
Ok, what?
LOOK AT MUH VAGINA HAT AND AMAZON IS ENSLAVING WOMEN INSIDE MACHINES FOR PROFIT!!!
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) January 24, 2018
Wait.
Is it still sexist if women ask Alexa to do things for them?— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) January 24, 2018
YES BECAUSE THEY SHOULD HAVE ASKED A MAN.
Ok, but this is important…
Has anyone taken the time to ask Alexa what she identifies as?
— We.are.all.gonna.die. (@KevinMBlkbrn) January 24, 2018
She said ''Sorry, I don't know that.''
Sounds like she's pretty woke.
— Burley (@burleykev) January 24, 2018
HAHAHA.
JUST LAUGHING THROUGH MY TEARS. THIS IS OUR WORLD NOW.
HA.
