no, I felt awkward that people still think it's acceptable to write stories like that. It has nothing to do with caring for her, I feel awkward watching that because I feel bad for society as a whole and women in specific, that we are still being subjected to this dehumanizing masculine sexist fantasy crap.

It's a similar feeling if it looked like some company was going to publish a Nazi sex camp rape simulator game.

It is the same awkward feeling I get about the Japanese rape and sex game simulators.

The whole thing feels like a thin veneer over someones sex fantasy being masqueraded as a social acceptable story.

I feel embarrassed that women out there have to see this crap and realize that still how some men view/want to see them, and that they have to live in a world where people think there's nothing wrong with that.

I completely agree with you, mindstab. I didn't feel sympathy, I felt rage that the dudes writing this story thought it was cool to play around with my actual oppression to make up an imaginary oppression, where both the real and the fake are meant titillates them and other guys, not to speak to women's actual experience.

Very well put. I originally had the same thought as xutopia, but after seeing your response, I couldn't agree more.

I'd be extremely curious to see this story of a suddenly sentient android being tested re-written by a gender studies academic. But not just once, I'd like to see it re-written from various historic gender perspectives.

Because I can't really judge the dynamic without something to compare it against.