by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
One of the things that makes me embarrassed to be a man — and a single middle-aged man at that — is the rise of the notion of the “incel,” or “involuntary celibate.” Not content with being insane racists in the guise of the alt-right, the surreal people who inhabit the far, far, far, far Right now want to add gross misogyny to their bag of tricks as well.
It doesn’t take a lot of navel gazing to imagine a future in which the government out of exasperation will start to ship sexbots to incels to shut them up, if nothing else. This idea came to me when someone said the government will eventually force women to have sex with incels. That didn’t make any sense to me, but the idea that at some point sexbots will be so human-like that they might meet the demands of incels seems much more likely.
I once met a guy online who took extreme pleasure in wallowing in the most horrible of ethical quandaries and this seems like it would be right up his alley. I could see a future in which the rights of sexbots are decided in large part because incels treat them so poorly — and the sexbots have become so intelligent — that society collectively decides that something has to be done.
At least, that’s what I think might happen.
