{"id":664,"date":"2002-09-03T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2002-09-04T08:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/04\/cybersodomy\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:53:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:53:20","slug":"cybersodomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/03\/cybersodomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersodomy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15920,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/home.globalcrossing.net\\\/~variable\\\/gayrobot.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15921,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/19649&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050907044955\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/comments.mefi\\\/19649&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 01:18:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 01:18:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15922,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/19649#335430&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080906100349\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/19649&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/19649\\\/C3P0-a-drama-queen&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15923,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/user.mefi\\\/14921&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251119233543\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/user.mefi\\\/14921&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 01:18:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 01:18:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15924,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/user.mefi\\\/14460&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251124043626\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/user.mefi\\\/14460&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 01:18:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 01:18:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15925,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/19649#336178&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080906100349\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/19649&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/19649\\\/C3P0-a-drama-queen&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a page for everything on the &#8216;net these days &#8212; even <a href=\"http:\/\/home.globalcrossing.net\/~variable\/gayrobot.html\" title=\"Variable Underground: Gay robots\">gay robots<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>Data<\/strong> &#8212; Starfleet&#8217;s first official Android, Lt. Comdr. Data has been a valuable part of the Capt. Picard&#8217;s crew aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. &#8220;Gay-ta&#8221; and his high-profile are no surprise, since Star Trek has always been a leader in expanding society&#8217;s tolerance of issues previously considered taboo. (Women&#8217;s rights, Interracial romance, etc.) Although his first intimate experience was with a woman (Lt. Tasha Yar), Data has always exhibited curiosity toward many human customs. His first experience with emotion occurred after he choked a strong male enemy (Borg) to death. Data admitted feeling pleasure, indicating a fondness for S&amp;M activities. Other homosexual characteristics include: neatness, good grammer, shiny hair, and an unwillingness to use violence unless necessary.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/19649\" title=\"MeFi comments thread\">MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nJust tossing this in a bit after I put up the actual post. The MeFi discussion on this post actually ended up going in all sorts of directions (starting with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/19649#335430\" title=\"XQUZYPHYR:  Oh for Christ's sakes...\">surprisingly venemous post<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/user.mefi\/14921\" title=\"XQUZYPHYR's MeFi profile\">XQUZYPHYR<\/a> about how &#8220;&#8230;this entire concept of people all on their own deciding that fictional characters, primarily those from cartoons and children&#8217;s stories, are all secretly gay is just annoying.&#8221;), but towards the end people started regaining their sense of humor, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/user.mefi\/14460\" title=\"Secret Life of Gravy's MeFi profile\">Secret Life of Gravy<\/a> tossed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/19649#336178\" title=\"Secret Life of Gravy: I'm guessing this would be...\">this comment out<\/a> that had me laughing so hard I was nearly in tears&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &gt; I&#8217;m still curious how you (or whoever) would describe a non-stereotypical gay character.<\/p>\n<p>  I&#8217;m guessing this would be a cartoon character who acts, looks, and sounds heterosexual except for the scenes where he is snorking up a trouser snake.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it was the use of the phrase &#8216;snorking up a trouser snake&#8217; that really got me &#8212; I&#8217;m still giggling every time I read that&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a page for everything on the &#8216;net these days &#8212; even gay robots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}