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Noun

fembot ‎(plural fembots)

1. (science fiction) A robot in female form.
   • 1976 October 27, Arthur Rowe & Oliver Crawford (screenwriters), Kill Oscar (The Bionic Woman), season 2, episode 5:

     Dr. Franklin: "Yes, the girl is valuable. But, my fembots can do anything she can."

   • 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

     The body of Eve 8, the fembot, represents both steely industrial strength and the mysteries of microelectronic circuitry.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:fembot.
2. (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

     [...] 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

     Too many people, forgetting the discipline of love and rage, have read the "Manifesto" as the ramblings of a blissed-out, technobunny, fembot.

Synonyms

• (robot): gynoid
• (unthinking woman): Stepford

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