[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got some news for you Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.00,0:00:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fembots have feelings too Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.00,0:00:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I was walking around the other day Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.00,0:00:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I kept running into these billboards ads Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.00,0:00:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that say "RU Bot or Not" for Svedka Vodka Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.00,0:00:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's apart of this larger ad campaign Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.00,0:00:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they have. Some of the other ones say Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.00,0:00:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things like "Make your next trophy wife Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.00,0:00:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,100% titanium" or Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.00,0:00:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Turn ons: stiff drinks and greased elbows." Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.00,0:00:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was looking at the Svedka Vodka website Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.00,0:00:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I noticed they have this Bot Builder Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.00,0:00:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you can "create your perfect silicone Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.00,0:00:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clone, ready and willing to serve" Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.00,0:00:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you can turn "yourself from hot to bot." Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.00,0:00:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it gets even more disturbing when you Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.00,0:00:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get inside the program, because you have Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.00,0:00:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all these options of clothing choices and Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.00,0:00:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of which is a french maid outfit and you Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.00,0:00:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can have your new french maid pose in Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.00,0:00:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these cute or sexy model poses and in Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,addition you can give her martini hands Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.00,0:00:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so she can you drinks at your whim. Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.00,0:00:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's talk about fembots for a second then Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.00,0:00:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because in popular culture and historically Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.00,0:00:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fembots are the ultimate Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.00,0:01:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,misogynistic male fantasy Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.00,0:01:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are a mythic construct used Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.00,0:01:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to serve male desires. Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.00,0:01:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These fembots are sex slaves and sex Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.00,0:01:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,objects, ready and willing to serve Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.00,0:01:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and clean up after these men. Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.00,0:01:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Commercial for Phillips Moisture Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.00,0:01:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shave System Ad Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.00,0:01:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ instrumental/electronic music ♫ Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.00,0:01:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So is she the accessory to the razor or is Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.00,0:01:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the razor the accessory to her? Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.00,0:01:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't really know but what I do know is that Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.00,0:01:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her whole reason for being is Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.00,0:01:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to serve this man. Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.00,0:01:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Commercial for Heineken Draught Keg Ad Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.00,0:01:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ electronic music ♫ Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.00,0:02:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wait so her uterus is a keg ready to Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.00,0:02:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,serve beer on demand? Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.00,0:02:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think Advertising Age actually covered it Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.00,0:02:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,best, which is kind of surprising Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.00,0:02:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they said that the "Heineken Draught Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.00,0:02:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keg is arguably the most sexist beer Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.00,0:02:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,commercial ever produced." Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.00,0:02:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is quite a large statement considering Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.00,0:02:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beer commercials are pretty sexist. Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.00,0:02:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They went on to say that these commercials Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.00,0:02:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"reduce half the world to a Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.00,0:02:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,man-servicing beer tap." Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.00,0:02:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do advertisers love to use images that Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.00,0:02:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reduce all that women are into plastic Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.00,0:02:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,homemaking, obedient, sex slaves who Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.00,0:02:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't talk back, in fact they don't talk at all Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.00,0:02:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they even have an on and off switch. Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.00,0:03:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Advertisers are tapping into a core element Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.00,0:03:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of patriarchy which is the obsession with Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.00,0:03:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,control. Author of The Gender Knot Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.00,0:03:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Allan Johnson says, Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.00,0:03:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"As with any system of privilege that Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.00,0:03:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,elevates one group by oppressing another, Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.00,0:03:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,control is an essential element of patriarchy: Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.00,0:03:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,men maintain their privilege by controlling Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.00,0:03:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women and anyone else Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.00,0:03:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who might threaten it." Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.00,0:03:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fembot fantasy is an expression of total Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.00,0:03:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,control especially over women. And these Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.00,0:03:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,commercials are selling men this fantasy of Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.00,0:03:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,control associated with their product. Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.00,0:03:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love science fiction and what I love most Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.00,0:03:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about it is this opportunity to imagine Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.00,0:03:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alternative societies and futuristic technology Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.00,0:03:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can improve our way of life and really Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.00,0:03:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be used as a tool for liberation but what Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.00,0:03:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these commercials are doing is taking this Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.00,0:03:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imaginary futuristic world and making it a Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.00,0:03:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tool of subordination and oppression. Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.00,0:03:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Commerical for FEMBOT Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.00,0:03:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Bionic Woman Franchise)] Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.00,0:03:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It's the fembot new from Kenner and Jamie Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.00,0:03:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Summers the Bionic Woman Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.00,0:03:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sold separately." Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.00,0:03:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'I'm Jamie Summers' Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.00,0:03:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Oh no you're not, I am, you're a fembot! Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.00,0:04:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your paralyzer gave you away.' Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.00,0:04:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'She's unmasked me, now I have to disguise Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.00,0:04:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,myself as a mystery maiden no one will Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.00,0:04:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recognize me, not even Jamie ha ha' Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.00,0:04:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Fembot comes with everything seen here. Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.00,0:04:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jamie Summers, the Bionic Woman Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.00,0:04:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sold separately."