Citations:fembot
English citations of fembot
Noun: "a robot in female form"
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- 1976 October 27, Arthur Rowe, Oliver Crawford, Kill Oscar (The Bionic Woman), season 2, episode 5, spoken by Dr. Franklin (John Houseman):
- Yes, the girl is valuable. But, my fembots can do anything she can.
- 1979, Zappa, Frank (lyrics and music), “Fembot in a Wet T-Shirt”, in Joe's Garage:
- 1997, Mike Myers, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, spoken by Frau Farbissina (Mindy Sterling):
- Jawohl, Herr Doktor. I have created the ultimate weapon to defeat Austin Powers. Send in the fembots!
- 1997, Mike Myers, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, spoken by Austin Powers (Mike Myers):
- You see, I was looking for Dr. Evil when the fembots came out and smoke started coming out of their jomblies.
- 2001 February 4, Lewis Morton, Amazon Women in the Mood (Futurama), season 3, episode 1, spoken by Femputer (Bea Arthur):
- Why? Why? I came here from a faraway planet. A planet ruled by a chauvinistic Manputer that was really a Manbot. Have you any idea how it feels to be a Fembot living in a Manbot's Manputer's world?
- 2003, Jyanni Steffensen, “Doing It Digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and the Art of Virtual Female Subjectivity”, in Reload: Rethinking Women Cyberculture[1], The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 218:
- The body of Eve 8, the fembot, represents both steely industrial strength and the mysteries of microelectronic circuitry.
Noun: "an unthinking woman"
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- 1978, Mary Daly, Gyn/ecology:
- As this happens, Athena will shuck off her robothood, will re-turn to her real Source, to her Self, leaving the demented Male Mother to play impotently with his malfunctioning machine, his dutiful dim-witted "Daughter", his broken Baby Doll gone berserk, his failed fembot.
- 1996, Melissa Raphael, Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality[3], Sheffield Academic Press, →ISBN, page 61:
- [...] patriarchal socialization works to sap, stunt and tame this energy, leaving successfully adapted women as little more than 'fembots' or 'feminized artifacts' who have become the products and commodities of patriarchal 'necrophilic' sexual fantasy.
- 2003, Donna Haraway, The Haraway Reader[4], Routledge, →ISBN, page 3:
- Too many people, forgetting the discipline of love and rage, have read the "Manifesto" as the ramblings of a blissed-out, technobunny, fembot.