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Leftovers|The Rise of the Social Media Fembot Ft. Recho Omondi

Naked Beauty

The Naked Beauty Podcast

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Bonus! Recho and I discuss how new technologies, that seem harmless, are shaping gender perceptions in dangerous ways. Subscribe to the show and please rate and review if you have a moment: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-naked-beauty-podcast/id1131628553?mt=2


Read the full story by Amanda Hess via the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/arts/fembot-poppy-lil-miquela-kylie-jenner.html

Ceck Out Lil Miquela - a virtual influencer *a-must-see* https://www.instagram.com/lilmiquela/?hl=en


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0:00.0

Hello, it's Brooke Devard. You're listening to the Naked Beauty podcast, and I'm just, I'm coming here with some leftovers from my episode with Rachel.

0:09.0

She and I can talk. Like, we, I think the first episode we did together, we ended up talking for maybe five hours after the interview.

0:22.0

And you guys know the show show you know how things go

0:24.6

sometimes we get far far outside of the lines of beauty I ran it in I bring it back

0:30.0

but when people are interesting you just want to let them go and you

0:34.7

There's an intellectual chemistry going on when I talk to these women that I admire.

0:42.9

They're smart and I love the way that they think

0:45.2

and the way that their brains work.

0:46.4

And so anyway, this is just a tidbit talking about,

0:50.9

talking about the future and voice technology and all of this scary stuff that is happening

0:55.8

in the background slowly but surely, slowly enough that we don't freak out about the progress but if you really really think about it

1:06.5

this is something that we as women when we think about representation and shifting perceptions, we should be thinking about voice technology.

1:19.0

And all of these new technologies are creating new dynamics and new stereotypes and prototypes of women that I think we should all be conscious of in question and think about how many men are programming these apps and there's a lot here and it does relate to beauty it's all

1:35.6

full circle right we are vast we contain multitudes that's what we do here. All right.

1:42.5

Well, you posted this very interesting.

1:47.5

I think it was a New York Times article

1:48.9

that I read about like Fembots and...

1:51.2

That was so interesting. So interesting. but it was basically talking about like how

1:54.8

Siri and Alexa did you hear my Alexa just wake up like yes.

2:00.3

She was like Alexa.

2:01.3

She was like Alexa. This is what kind of, Alexa. Be quiet.

2:03.5

You're not part of this conversation.

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