#androgynoid

[felix-lupin]

Random...

The word 'android' is a male word. The female word is 'gynoid'.

As a sci-fi nerd, it has always bothered me a little that all robots are assigned male gender, even the booby ones.

They should all be androgynoids. I wish that was the word.

If I were a robot, I would prefer androgynoid as my pronoun.

I actually hadn't considered the etymology of the word android before, so thank you for making me consider it! (I love thinking about little language things. the origin of words and affixes and such)

It's unfortunate that the 'gender-neutral' nouns in the english language are often just the same as the neuter ones, or when the neuter words imply masculinity.

The gender neutral 'android' is probably something like (as you mentioned) androgynoid, or anthropoid/anthronoid ("-oid" of or like, "anthro" [a] human). One of those would probably be a better word for it.

[androgynoided]

end of an era. hotrussiansingles -> androgynoided

[rjalker]

robot terms for stories with robots:

anthroid. genderless version of the word android, gynoid, androgynoid, ect. For any robot designed to look like a human, regardless of designed gender.

alloid. any robot that's not an anthroid. for settings with both where distinctions are helpful. From the greek word "allos" for other, also very punny in general.

therianoid. any robot designed to look like a non-human animal. Can then be made more specific depending on the species the robot is based on. Felinoid, caninoid, arachnoid, ect.

humanoidism. human centrist speciesism in settings with multiple species of people, including robots. bigotry against people who don't look like humans, (including alloid robots)

[cortlandkaard]

i am a true achillean ancient androgynoid (my husband is Homophobic!!!! what an L)

[facing-worlds]

researchers everywhere seeking the coveted "androgynoid"

[dualboot-dollbot]

non-binary robot call that an androgynoid

[tinsin]

gnc androgynoid whose pronouns are ve/vim

[transmechanicus]

androgynoid request: make them out of mycelium! bioluminescence an absolute Must. (especially if it's a pretty blue glow. or even better: mood-based glows.) have fibre-optic cabling and optical computing components integrated into the fungal network. have them naturally synthesise psilocybin and secrete it into their bodily fluids. optional bonus: lil fangs &/or a sword. (I'd say "also make 'em goth" but I mean. redundant innit?) fungi and photons! biocomputing! does that qualify? is that valid?

They sound v sexy also they have a pet mushroomba

[custom-pronoun-pins]

[ID: Ten circular designs with a solid colored background and a pride flag inside the circle.

Each pin reads, "Valued memeber of the Global Trans Werewolf Pack".

The flags are, in order:

The romance and sex repulsed flag, with a large vertical dark grey stripe on the right, with a partially rounded thin white stripe to the left of the center. On the other side is a circle in dark grey, with a white minus symbol in the center, with the left side split horizontally in half with green on top and purple on the bottom.

The sex repulsed flag, which is the same as the first, but with a solid purple stripe on the left.

The sapphic flag, with stripes of pink, purple-white, and pink, with a light purple flower with five petals and an orange center in the middle of the flag.

The sci/ence/(ences)/enceself pronoun flag, with stripes of different widths: Yellow, cyan, robin's egg blue, orange, robin's egg blue, cyan, and yellow.

The scorpigender flag, with stripes of black, red, and grey.

An unnamed androgynoid-gender with stripes of berry red, black, dark grey purple, light grey-purple, very pale blue, light grey purple, dark grey purple, black, and berry red.

A securitron gender from Fallout: New Vegas, with stripes of faded navy blue, brown, grey, and cream.

The shay/shayself pronoun flag, with stripes of different widths: Periwinkle blue, cyan, purple, white, periwinkle blue, cyan, and purple.

The she/her/(hers)/herself pronoun flag, with stripes of different widths: red, black, orange, black, purple, black, and bubblegum pink.

The sia/lia/lis/liaself pronoun flag, with stripes of different widths: Gold, cyan, orange, green, orange, cyan, and gold.

End ID.]

To see all the posts on tumblr, you can click here to see the tag for them all, which is “Valued member of the Global Trans Werewolf Pack pins”.

These can be used for anything you'd like, headers, icons, moodboards ect, no credit needed!

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Designs are no longer available on Redbubble as of April 2023, as they've started actively stealing money from artists. Sorry for the inconvenience. You are, as always, encouraged to save these designs to use as icons or in other art, and you are encouraged to print them out and make your own shirts or buttons if you're able to.

[cicadawings]

you might think I'm a robot now but when I get top surgery and go full androgynoid. then you will see

[mitigatedchaos]

Standalone Complex 202045:1-4

(1,000 words, ~4 mins)

Is it really? Could it really be?

Yes, it really, really is Standalone Complex.

In fact, it's so Standalone Complex that by episode 4, for a brief moment, I was the original technoliberal [REAL NAME] and not the time-travelling future reactionary* Mitigated Chaos.

For that reason I've decided not to watch it all at once. I'm currently 4 episodes in. Potential minor spoilers, but mostly speculation.

Is it that good?

No, it's that Standalone Complex, and that's not surprising since unlike ARISE (which is Ghost in the Shell but not SAC), Kenji Kamiyama's running the show again. SAC_2045 is 2020, but it's also 2008, as a Japanese director once again unwisely indulges in CGI that provides a more video game like feel which misses out on the classic romantic feel of the original 2D animation. (This was also a weakness of Knights of Sidonia, which is otherwise Anime Battlestar Galactica during its first season.)

However, I think there's a reason they did this, and that reason is that the original Standalone Complex was phenomenally expensive for an anime, even though it was also very high-earning. If you want to do loads of action sequences - and it seems that Kamiyama does, which makes the episodes feel shorter this go 'round - 3D is the way to go.

Why does the Major look Like That?

If you search my archive I've used the term "Androgynoids" before, but I don't think I've explained it.

The demand for companion robots is likely to come more from men than from women, and given the huge number of robots to be ordered, it's easier for firms to share a standardized platform that can be quickly adapted into a number of female shapes and a handful of male shapes - an "androgynous" frame, either in terms of reconfigurable parts that can be swapped out in production, or in terms of a software pipeline for quickly designing derivative frames for manufacturing. That overly-cute 'moe' look is likely to be more popular, meaning that they might be produced in large numbers.

(...if it happens. The object recognition, social context recognition, and path navigation issues are underestimated.)

Which brings us to why the Major looks Like That - we already learned the general reason back in 2nd Gig. Her body looks like a cheap mass-manufactured one to prevent being attacked and looted for her high-grade military hardware. What's the cheap mass-manufactured version for 2045? That. Remember, the Major views her body as a tool in most iterations, so such a ridiculously commodified look might not bother her.

No, but really, why?

I figure Ilya Kuvshinov is a lot more popular in Japan than we know. I sure never asked for it.

One of the well-known weaknesses of the original series is that she spends the first season running around without any pants. Similar concerns here will stop people from taking this series as seriously as well unless they're already used to anime fan service.

On the other hand, the first SAC's concept of a memetic crime wave was positively prophetic, so it'll be very interesting to see what Kamiyama has to say here.

What the fuck is 'sustainable war'?

Personally I don't think they're going to explain this directly at any point.

On the first level is sounds like an innumerate left take - economies don't actually make money on war. In fact in the real world, war has become so expensive and economies have become so interconnected that it's almost too expensive even for the world's richest country to have a war. Here's what we have to go on.

It's based on AI.

It's "war as an industry."

It accelerated following a major economic crash.

There is an increase in riots and separatism; at least some areas have raiders.

It "threatens the human race with extinction."

Characters repeatedly claim that the situation is safe as long as it's left to 'the pros'.

I think there's a neat answer that wraps up all of these: the only way to fight a war without destroying the economy is to not actually fight the war.

The war is run by AIs that are designed to weight the condition of the economy in their strategic assessments, and the other AIs all know that. At no point is it cost-effective to actually fight, since the land itself isn't worth as much as the equipment and personnel sitting on top of it, and it especially isn't worth the counter-attack. The AIs are producing and moving military formations entirely for the purpose of obtaining negotiating leverage against other countries on behalf of their human masters. As long as no one shoots, it's safe. That actually makes a lot of sense in a high-information world, where it's easier for everyone to know each others' relative abilities.

...and if that's what it is, I have to hand it to Kamiyama because that's both clever and darkly hilarious.

But if almost no one is shooting, how does it threaten the human race with extinction? Simple - there's too much accumulated military power sitting around. If anyone important is actually dumb enough to pull the trigger, the resulting chain reaction will obliterate the global industrial base and food production will collapse.

Global Simultaneous Default?

I don't think they're going to explain this and I don't think they need to. We're in the middle of a pandemic where it looks like governments are pretty much borrowing against the [figurative] psychic field that powers the currency directly because the financial system was never designed to handle a real catastrophe and could get disastrously desynchronized from real assets and real production otherwise. All we need to propose is that it was mismanaged worse than normal and not even slack was left. Probably it was initiated by a sovereign debt crisis over the fake war.

* - A joke; if each year brings unanticable moral progress, then all current political thinkers will eventually be considered "right-wing."

[androgynoid-aether]

If I may, what caused you to leak corrosive acid? I may not design gynoids but I know enough to keep hazardous materials well contained.

The opaque part of my head is glass, and while it’s much stronger than most glass, it CAN be broken (and opened in the case where the fluid leaks and needs to be replaced). During the... incident, I was speaking to people who had come to see me, and a tall person accidentally bumped into me, knocking me to the ground. No one, not even my creators, knew how corrosive the fluid was to organic matter until someone tried to plug the leak with their hand... You all know what happens next.

(Also, for future reference, though I do use she/her pronouns along with they/them, I was originally intended to be genderless and was only designated as somewhat female-identifying during the A. I. development phase, therefore I’m technically called an “androgynoid.” It’s a common mistake, but I thought I should mention it ^^;)

[rjalker]

(I know this is a joke I'm just adding seriously for more fun)

For those who don't know yet:

the suffix -oid is what means "looks like/similar to" that in "android" means "looks like a man" and in "gynoid" means "looks like a woman"

This is also where the word humanoid comes from!

adro = man

gyn = woman.

-oid = looks like

-ous = makes it an adjective

Android = a robot (or other artificial construct if your universe has magic) designed to look like a man. (Unfortunately because of male-default language, this is considered the default term for any robot/ect designed to look like a human, whether X was designed to look like a man, woman, or other. Though also because of misogyny they're usually designed to look like men lol)

Gynoid = a robot designed to look like a woman

Androgynoid = a robot designed to look neither like a man or a woman (I came up with this a month or so ish ago but I very highly doubt I'm the first one).

Gynandroid = same as above but with gyn in front of andro to mix it up

Androgynous = like a man and a woman (at the same time)

Gynandrous = same as above but with gyn in front of andro to mix it up and remove some of the male-default misogyny

Androgynoidous = if we use the -oid suffix to indicate artificial construct, this now means a robot(+) that looks like neither a man nor a woman.

Gynandroidous = same as above but with gyn in front of andro to mix it up and remove some of the male-default misogyny

and if we want to be really inclusive that means we should come up with a prefix to indicate nonbinary genders all on their own without relying on andro- and gyn- in various combinations!

But I can't think of anything so that's a job for other people :)

nonbinary robot call that androidgynous

[riverofmolecules]

is the delusion monster really unrelated to everything else? i dislike it when characters of color suffer for the white characters’ foolishness

on the other hand, hooking up into a mainframe through tree vines to enter an eternal single consciousness operating innumerable androgynoids is the dream

[flarebossmalva]

hey idk if anyone uses pinterest but i’m on there as androgynoid and i have some good boards on there. buncha aesthetic shit, art, gay memes, hot people, robots, idk

if you also have a pinterest and i know you i can invite you to my Secret Boards™ (they’re for my alters lol i just don’t want the entirety of the website knowing about my DID)

[mitigatedchaos]

A future wherein there exist more sex robots than humans, and roughly 20% of them are sentient (although regulated by law to be completely happy with their lot in life, for ethical reasons). A small contingent of humans who are viscerally disgusted by the concept of sex robots operate a terror campaign wherein they start committing high profile murders of sex robots, justified by a variety of contradictory ideologies, some claiming to be for the sex robots' welfare and others openly hating them.

Look, just because your previous Hero Protagonist dumped you on the side of the road for a new model with a better voice module (in violation of city zoning regulations) doesn't mean you can imprint on me. I've adopted 9 of you miserable fucks already, and my house only has 7 androgynoid bays (two of which I had installed myself!) - not to mention the costs of replacing your contact surfaces. I've already got a whole collection of 'deres. I'm not missing any that I want. Yes, *even a yandere.* (I have *two* yanderes! One yandere is enough!) You'll have to find your own way to avoid the recycler.