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estebanana -> RE: Mars, do we really need to go there? (Mar. 10 2025 3:02:34)
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ORIGINAL: Ricardo
of course I have seen those. An extension (or rip off?) of Asimov IMO. And yes I realize the issue is glaringly ignored by Expanse writers (ironic considering their worship of Alien, which had the essential, Mother, Ash, and Bishop characters that Cameron tied in to Blade Runner after all). Recently the "Raised by Wolves" unfinished series by Riddley Scott again, explored an entire new take on the story. A bummer it cancelled.
Anyway, I was thinking we will have learned these lessons by now (or the time space fairing androids are needed). To be honest, it is really gonna be about "sexbots", more than anything, humans falling in love with them, rather than the "android slave revolt". IMO.
Think these SciFi series’ are extensions of Asimov rather than rip-offs. There are so many things Mr A didn’t cover.
As for the Expanse, they standardized polyamory at least in Belter society, I think polyamory becomes central to survival and family sustainability. Multiple parental units cover child care while other parents are out shipping freight.
The sexbot is going to blow up, no pun intended, with religious conservatives. Christian and Muslim theologians heads will explode because the transformation of humanity into hybrid beings will de emphasize patriarchal order and they will be against that. Women have adapted to sex toys better than men, and in fact men are threatened by sex toys because it de centralizes them in human sexuality. So the whole sex in space thing is a feminist project that undermines religious authority. It’s a direct counter narrative to things like the patriarchally oriented dystopias of the social science fiction like The Hand Maids Tale.
I think it’s too soon to assume we’re past all this stuff and think it’s going to be a long time before Islam and Christianity let go of people’s minds so we’re clear to be atheists free and open. The religious right, in the U.S. at least, is going to take a stab at banning contraception and elective surgeries that render men impotent. Contraception is a massive threat to male dominance, which is what religious conservativism is wholeheartedly invested in preserving and expanding. The religious freakazoids in particular in Islam and Christianity view women ( at the core of their organization of social order) as walking sperm recepticals. They view women’s bodies as vessels under their religious overview, which is to regulate the female body.
As far as I know there has not been a space SciFi show that has dealt with women’s emancipation from religious control, and this is important because power to fund and maintain space ventures will need to come partially from government, not exclusively the private sector. This is interesting because it sets up conflict between the power of the private and public, with women in the middle. See because transforming the male body is a forgone conclusion, but transforming the female body lets in motion a kind of bodily autonomy that the theological community will push back against
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