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What is Bubbles' sexual orientation?
Is it cold in here?:
> I have thereby learned a great deal about people who think very differently from myself.
This place is good for that.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 15 May 2018, 21:50 ---> I have thereby learned a great deal about people who think very differently from myself.
This place is good for that.
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ISN'T it, though!! :)
ToodleLew:
@pecoros7
As I said,
--- Quote from: ToodleLew on 15 May 2018, 11:42 ---This is not the discussion I want to contribute here.
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My thesis remains:
--- Quote from: ToodleLew on 15 May 2018, 11:42 ---I think that you need a new terminology for the relationships that include AIs. Certainly the terminology of human-to-human relationships is complex enough, but (in Jeph's universe) AIs add another layer to the dynamic.
There's no need to classify Bubbles partnership (romantic or otherwise) with a human-to-human label, as the relationship is not one that a human can have with another human. Indeed, it may be a relationship (from Bubbles standpoint) that only exists as an AI-to-human relationship.
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And, again, I ask
--- Quote from: ToodleLew on 15 May 2018, 11:42 ---How would you describe a partner for a "straight" Bubbles? How about "gay", with respect to Bubbles? Or "Bi"?
In other words, what do you mean when you ask about a "straight" Bubbles vs a "gay" or "bi" Bubbles?
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It appears that some here make the assumption (I've not seen it stated as canon) that AI sexuality is human sexuality. My thesis is that it may not be. My thesis is that AI-human sexuality is not necessarily AI-AI sexuality or human-human sexuality. It may be something more, something different, something else.
As a (very poor) analogy, some people have more than just a master-pet relationship with their animals. Indeed, such an expanded relationship is encouraged among certain groups. So, how would you classify those relationships? Is a dog handler-dog relationship something that you can classify in human terms ("friend"? "colleague"?), or is it something else, outside the terminology that we use to describe human-to-human relationships?
If that analogy doesn't do it for you, then how about Wookie-Human relationships? Human-Vulcan relationships? Is the joining of two sentient individuals of different species "hetero" or "gay" or "bi"? Well?
ToodleLew:
I've just a thought.
Is this topic even appropriate? My feeling is that it is not; I would find it unacceptable if someone asked in open forum what my sexual orientation was, so how is asking about Bubbles sexual orientation acceptable?
Now, I am as guilty as the rest of the posters here. My apologies to Bubbles and to those others that my contribution to this discussion might have offended.
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: ToodleLew on 16 May 2018, 10:17 ---I've just a thought.
Is this topic even appropriate? My feeling is that it is not; I would find it unacceptable if someone asked in open forum what my sexual orientation was, so how is asking about Bubbles sexual orientation acceptable?
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I guess I don't see it that way. If I saw one of my friends suddenly getting romantic with someone of their own gender, and I didn't know they swung that way, I would ask some mutual acquaintances if they knew what our mutual friend's orientation was. And if the friend in question walked into the conversation, I would ask them. I know my friends pretty well, for the most part, and I don't think any of them would be offended by the whole thing, regardless of what their actual answer to the question may be.
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