" I didn’t want parents to think we were trying to exploit their children.’’Arthur Clokey
It was barely noticed, as was the news of the loss of his voice just last year, but there it was on the AP wire:LOS OSOS, Calif. Animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop culture phenomenon through decades of toys, revivals, and satires, died Friday. He was 88.
I never really liked Gumby – plain and simple. I definitely come to bury Gumby, not to praise him.
Still, Gumby had some integrity. He started as a guest on the Howdy Doody Show. Maybe he just didn’t want to upstage his host (Mr. Simpson, a Ms Ullman on the line for you). And Clokey didn’t market the man of clay as a toy for seven years or so, fearing that the little rubber toy would be seen as exploitive.
Arthur - you want exploitive?
‘Sex robot’ offers conversation, firm says
By Associated Press | January 11, 2010
LAS VEGAS - A New Jersey company says it has developed “the world’s first sex robot,’’ a life-size rubber doll that’s designed to engage the owner with conversation rather than lifelike movement.
At a demonstration at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas on Saturday, the dark-haired, negligee-clad robot said “I love holding hands with you’’ when it sensed that its creator touched its hand.
Conversation? Rather than lifelike movement? Is that what AP really thinks the damn thing is for? If you’re in the market for a sex robot is conversation really your priority? Do you really care to find out if the two of you have any shared interests?
The AP tells us that the contraption costs about $9,000. So there you are in your Las Vegas hotel room with a cross between Barbie, Tickle-Me Elmo and a mechanical bull
“Sure, we can talk all you want Mister – all night if you want – it’s still gonna cost you nine grand.”
So it goes in the world of "bendable creations".
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