>...> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 00:47:41 -0600
> From: "Jerome S. Colburn" <jscolbur@...>
>...> Sort of like those human-shape robots in science fiction that are always
> called androids even when (like those made by Mr. Harcourt Fenton Mudd)
> they're gynecoid.
You're reading the wrong sort of science fiction. Or perhaps I am.
Anyway, I've encountered 'gynoid' as a word for artificial humans
when the gender and sex were important.
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)