Re: men, elves, wolves, and robots; was: man, etc.

--- Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:

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> I had an interesting dispute with someone once about
> the term gynoid.  He
> insisted that all female robots be called gynoids,
> because the term android
> meant "like a male human."
Since "android" seems to be getting shortened to
"droid" in recent SF perhaps we should lauch a
preemptive strike and simply shorten "gynoid" to
"noid" to begin with.

A lot of men would find "a noid" to be a good match
with "a woman".  I know I've been a-noid by any number
of women in the past, ;-)

Besides, gynoids sound too much like gonads for my
taste.

--gary

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