Cyber Sex of the future?

March 11, 2004 7:12 AM

Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. (reg. req. for full story, sorry) Consider this just a bit of levity in the whole gay marriage debate. No, this isn't the next step on the slippery slope, it's just what happens when a lunatic looks for publicity. This actually made the front page of my local paper, which makes me question the sanity of their editors. [more inside]
posted by GhostintheMachine (19 comments total)

You can also read the article (with pictures) in the Daily News today (sorry, don’t know how to do dynamic links). I know this guy, indirectly - he went to school with my wife, and he was a little unbalanced even then. In the last provincial election he ran for a fringe party, dancing and waiving his sign on a local street corner every day. One day he wasn’t there, only to reappear the next day with his leg in a cast, still dancing and waiving (albeit less frenetically). I’m a little surprised the paper would put this on the front page (disclosure: I used to have a column in that paper but I was fired), as he’ll end up second in the nomination voting even if he’s the only one running. Then again, the front page also has this headline: “RCMP wants to pay $110K for suicide-resistant toilets”, and a story on soccer moms upset at seeing pornographic movies playing on the DVD sets in other people’s minivans.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 7:13 AM on March 11, 2004

Not sure I like a FPP to a story I can't even register (not in US or Canada) to read.
posted by BobsterLobster at 7:18 AM on March 11, 2004

I think those who are committed to their robots simply want their relationship to be publicly acknowledged. They're not even after tax breaks, I'm sure. Jeez......all these right-wingers who want to interfere with human/robot partnerships and tell them their relationship is somehow invalid.
posted by SpaceCadet at 7:37 AM on March 11, 2004

Side note: he wears huge glasses. That's all I got.
posted by davebush at 7:42 AM on March 11, 2004

Being a fan of Arthur C. Clarke, after reading the first sentence of the post I really thought perhaps a meteor had hit the earth somewhere.

Darn.
posted by bondcliff at 7:51 AM on March 11, 2004

This actually made the front page of MetaFilter, which makes me question the sanity of the poster.

ThisGuyWhoWentToSchoolWithMyWifeFilter!
posted by languagehat at 7:53 AM on March 11, 2004

and a story on soccer moms upset at seeing pornographic movies playing on the DVD sets in other people’s minivans.
Where is that link?
Side note: he wears huge glasses. That's all I got...and Boyd, 31, admits he’s a big fan of Star Trek’s blond Borg bombshell Seven of Nine.
posted by thomcatspike at 7:59 AM on March 11, 2004

This seems like a pretty lame post about a guy with a pretty lame commentary to make about gay marriage (but I could be wrong, I guess). Might I take this opportunity to link to this far more interesting (I think) Hendrik Hertzberg editorial from this week's New Yorker asserting that the gay marriage issue is simply a generational conflict? I can? Thank you.
posted by soyjoy at 8:03 AM on March 11, 2004

Hey, before you start dissing the whole robot-marriage idea, have you seen some of the robots that have graced the cover of Heavy Metal magazine over the years?

Rowr!!
posted by backOfYourMind at 8:29 AM on March 11, 2004

I love this FPP to death. SoyJoy, this guy isn't making a "commentary on gay marriage" at all--he's as crazy as a truckload of batshit speeding down the Nutty Highway to Looneyville.

Thanks, Ghost.

Now I want to know what a "suicide-resistant toilet" is, because mine's looking kind of depressed.
posted by Sidhedevil at 9:30 AM on March 11, 2004

SoyJoy, this guy isn't making a "commentary on gay marriage" at all--he's as crazy as a truckload of batshit speeding down the Nutty Highway to Looneyville.

Ah. It's so hard to tell these days. Well then, just forget that link to Henrik Hertzberg, OK?
posted by soyjoy at 9:48 AM on March 11, 2004

No, I liked that link, too, SoyJoy!

See, this is what I adore about MetaFilter--its delicate blend of the sublime and the ridiculous.
posted by Sidhedevil at 10:35 AM on March 11, 2004

Oh your robot-lover is relatively sane compared to the Arabic Ninja Vampire Priest who doesn't "date or marry, because all humans are family, he said, and that would make it incest."
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 11:01 AM on March 11, 2004

oh, secret life of gravy, thank you for that link.

Rounding out his unorthodox look are patches on his hip pack bearing the anarchy symbol and the words "vampire" and "ninja."
posted by th3ph17 at 11:31 AM on March 11, 2004

A ninja and a vampire? I'm completely fucked!
posted by moss at 12:33 PM on March 11, 2004

he's as crazy as a truckload of batshit speeding down the Nutty Highway to Looneyville.

I don't see what's so crazy.
posted by majcher at 12:57 PM on March 11, 2004

Wow, Ninjas are total sweet, but vampire ninjas!? I think I would pop like 18 boners.
posted by delmoi at 4:00 PM on March 11, 2004

What's truely annoying about this post is that this loony is also advocating for polygamous (and polyamorous) marriages, making those of us who happen to be polyamorous seem just as nuts as he is.

I know a polyamorous triad of two bisexual females and a straight male who raise a wonderful 5-year-old kid together. If her mother, however, got into a serious car crash with her daughter, none of the rest of the family would be able to visit their daughter.

If something happened to the mother but the 5-year-old daughter survived, she would be ripped away from her real family (who would have no visitation rights) and probably be taken care of by either the abusive ex-husband or by her ultra-religious Mormon grandmother.

So, if you ask me based on the real-world situations I have seen firsthand whether polyamorous and polygamous people deserve legal protection and union just like straights and gays, my answer would be "of course they do". That's what liberty means... the rights should apply to everyone.
posted by insomnia_lj at 4:35 AM on March 12, 2004

I don't see what's so crazy.

The Daily News article goes into detail:
"Boyd said he has no plans “in the near future” to marry an android.
“Maybe in 10 to 15 years, who knows?” he said."

And as a follow-up, in the last provincial election he got 94 votes out of 15,000 in his riding. Like I said, I'm not sure how this merits the front page of a newspaper serving a metropolitan area of 400,000+.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 5:00 AM on March 12, 2004