different between conformist vs fembot

English

Etymology

conform +? -ist

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?f??m?st/

Noun

conformist (plural conformists)

1. Someone who tries to conform to the mainstream.

Antonyms

• nonconformist

Translations

Adjective

conformist (comparative more conformist, superlative most conformist)

1. Conforming to established customs, etc.

Related terms

• nonconformist

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French conformiste

Noun

conformist m (plural conformi?ti)

1. conformist

Declension

English

Etymology

Blend of female +? bot. Coined by screenwriters Arthur Rowe and Oliver Crawford in the television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), specifically in "Kill Oscar" (season 2, episode 5) first broadcast on October 27, 1976.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?mb?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

fembot (plural fembots)

1. (science fiction) A robot in female form.
   • 2003, Jyanni Steffensen, "Doing It Digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and the Art of Virtual Female Subjectivity", Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture, The MIT Press, p. 218, ?ISBN [1]

     The body of Eve 8, the fembot, represents both steely industrial strength and the mysteries of microelectronic circuitry.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fembot.
   1. (specifically) A female sexbot.
2. (derogatory) A docile, unthinking and conformist woman.
   • 1996, Melissa Raphael, Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality, Sheffield Academic Press, p. 61, ?ISBN [2]

     [...] patriarchal socialization works to sap, stunt and tame this energy, leaving successfully adapted women as little more than 'fembots' or 'feminized artifacts' who have become the products and commodities of patriarchal 'necrophilic' sexual fantasy.

   • 2003, Donna Haraway, The Haraway Reader, Routledge, p. 3, ?ISBN [3]

     Too many people, forgetting the discipline of love and rage, have read the "Manifesto" as the ramblings of a blissed-out, technobunny, fembot.

Synonyms

• (robot): gynoid, robotess
• (unthinking woman): Stepford

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