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WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
Zebediah:
All the evidence we have in-universe indicates that "robot" is a term that AIs with mechanical bodies use for themselves and do not find offensive when humans use it.
jheartney:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 22 Feb 2016, 01:22 ---It occurs to me that Sam is at just the right age where her hormone balances are changing and she's started to possibly start to feel attraction to others. It makes sense that she'd turn to her closest 'similar age' (adolescent or equivalent) friend to discuss this.
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That was probably at least a year earlier. By fourteen she'll have full information on the mechanics of human sexuality, and will have likely had at least one crush. If she's advanced, she'll have had more experience than that, though she strikes me as nerdy enough not to have.
The only reason for Momo to withhold specifics is out of deference to Jim. She should alert him that Sam asked the question, though.
On the point of human/AI relationships, it looks to me that there'd be a whole range, from purpose-built sex-bots to platonic love affairs a la Her. AI's are presented as having a recognizable gamut of human emotions, so this sort of thing would be inevitable.
(ETA: I see there's a whole thread for this topic.)
Undrneath:
I think Sam is a late blooming tomboy so she may not have developed to that point.
chaospersonified:
I keep reading these comments like 'of COURSE she'll have had sex ed by fourteen!' and it's reminding me that most places aren't as bassackwards as where I grew up. My school taught sex ed to us in 9th grade, abstinence-only.
Zebediah:
I'll just leave this here: One of my sisters is an MD in family practice. When she started her practice 30 years ago, she would ask 14-year-old girls if they needed to talk about birth control. Enough said "yes" that she started asking 13-year-olds. Then 12. Then 11. Now she routinely discusses sex and birth control with 10-year-old girls. Because they need to know.
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