Fembot
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfɛmbɒt/
Origin
female + -bot. Coined by screenwriters Arthur Rowe and in the television series (1976–1978), specifically in "Kill Oscar" (season 2, episode 5) first broadcast on October 27, 1976.
Full definition of fembot
Noun
fembot
(plural fembots)- (science fiction) A robot in female form.
- 2003, Jyanni Steffensen, "Doing It Digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and the Art of Virtual Female Subjectivity", Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture, The MIT Press, p. 218, ISBN 0262561506 http://books.google.com/books?id=8LFsPwN2AJIC&pg=PA218&vq=fembot&dq=fembot&source=gbs_search_s&sig=RkNh0b4g7v636jeLTzVtmNr5CpEThe body of Eve 8, the fembot, represents both steely industrial strength and the mysteries of microelectronic circuitry.
- 2006, M. Apostolina, Dark Cindy, Simon & Schuster, p. 136, ISBN 1416917691 http://books.google.com/books?id=r8_Bh5wbwqYC&pg=PA136&dq=fembot&ei=&sig=2U7i9UyE-Xmw9w1SV8Z_MV8IpFoI see spandex, I see leather. Mmm. Yes. Very fembot.
- (derogatory) A docile, unthinking and conformist woman.
- 1996, Melissa Raphael, Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality, Sheffield Academic Press, p. 61, ISBN 1850757577 http://books.google.com/books?id=3xWtpfrWbzoC&pg=PA61&dq=fembot&ei=&sig=kXhRnSuSvrM7BM8KNFyHNfj5XSk... patriarchal socialization works to sap, stunt and tame this energy, leaving successfully adapted women as little more than
'fembots' or 'feminized artifacts' who have become the products and commodities of patriarchal 'necrophilic' sexual fantasy. - 2003, Donna Haraway, The Haraway Reader, Routledge, p. 3, ISBN 0415966892 http://books.google.com/books?id=p3qhnAgK69UC&pg=PA3&dq=fembot&ei=&sig=IfbpJ0vaYhIYpijoLTOo_nj3r7A#PPA3,M1Too many people, forgetting the discipline of love and rage, have read the "Manifesto" as the ramblings of a blissed-out, technobunny, fembot.