A synopsis of an upcoming Futurama episode reminded me of this post. The episode “Neutopia”, which is airing this Thursday, is summarized as “An alien who does not understand the concept of gender conducts experiments on the crew, changing all their genders.” Well, how the hell is an alien supposed to change a human’s gender (or even think to do so) if it doesn’t understand the concept of gender?
(That also reminded me of the post (forgot which one) that mentioned sci-fi aliens/robots that indicate their emotionlessness by being visibly confused by human emotions, when they don’t appear to be nearly as confused by things like sneezing.)
A synopsis of an upcoming Futurama episode reminded me of this post. The episode “Neutopia”, which is airing this Thursday, is summarized as “An alien who does not understand the concept of gender conducts experiments on the crew, changing all their genders.” Well, how the hell is an alien supposed to change a human’s gender (or even think to do so) if it doesn’t understand the concept of gender?
(That also reminded me of the post (forgot which one) that mentioned sci-fi aliens/robots that indicate their emotionlessness by being visibly confused by human emotions, when they don’t appear to be nearly as confused by things like sneezing.)