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In this video essay I talk about the fembot trope as related to the female monster and the ‘born sexy yesterday’ sci-fi trope exemplified in Disney’s Pixel Perfect, the anime Chobits, the HBO series Westworld, and the film Ex-Machina, and how they play into and sometimes subvert this idea of fembots as the ultimate male fantasy and the perfect woman.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Content Note and Flashing Light Info
Spoilers & Intro 0:09
Fembots: From Villainesses to Heroines (a mini history) 1:04
Pixel Perfect and Chobits: Dealing With the Threat 5:39
Content Note 13:19
Fembots & Allegory: Enslavement, Race, and a ‘Post Racial’ Future? 13:30
Fembots and Hyper Sexism 22:45
Content Note 23:55
Fembots, Robots, and Gender Identity 24:00
Freedom? 28:13
Conclusion 30:14
End Credits 30:49


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**For viewers with light sensitivity**

This video contains scenes from various movies and TV shows that display flashing lights in the form of lightning and special effects (especially in Pixel Perfect).

Here are the timestamps to avoid:

0.32~0.34 white flashing light effect from the black and white film Metropolis
3.22~3.29 bright explosion effect and white flames burning
7.57~8.02 bright white light animation effect
10.31~10.54 flashing stage lights from and yellow light glitch effect from Pixel Perfect
11.11~11.16 flashing lightning effect in a storm from Pixel Perfect
12.26~12.37 burning white flames
28.39~28.45 flashing white light from lightning in a storm in Pixel Perfect


Please proceed with caution.