A robot girlfriend? That's 15 inches tall? I see compatibility issues

So if you had the chance to create a robot, would it be a pretend girlfriend robot for lonely men? And would it be 15 inches tall?

I am guessing that the answer would be "no." However Sega had different ideas. So now we welcome "EMA, which stands for Eternal Maiden Actualization, can also hand out business cards, sing and dance..."

Read on to hear more about the exciting EMA!

The most disturbing thing about the robot is that it has no eyes, just a black mask where the eyes would be. It walks around swinging its plastic where hips would be, just like Lara Croft. And if it is in "love mode" it will greet humans with something that Sega is trying to sell as kisses, but is really a creepy eye-less robot facing pushing into your lips...ewww!

I don't know many people of any gender who are delusional to think that this tiny doll is anything other than a toy and as far away from a girlfriend substitute as a fish, but it is a clever way to try and sell what is really just an overpriced doll. If you are that desperate a real doll is much more useful.

What I find troubling is the way the media is spinning this new toy. Most of the stories on this are using it as a loosely veiled set-up for sexist comments. With comments like, "She is big-busted, petite, very friendly, and she runs on batteries," from MSNBC and "She may not be tall and blonde, but she doesn't complain about dirty socks," from the Telegraph, it seems as if the media has had these gems in a drawer just waiting to be used to make sexist swipes at women. This is not surprising after the steady amount of sexism the media in the United States was spewing with the Hillary Clinton presidential run, but I still find it disappointing. Silly me...

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