Редактирование: Feminism and transhumanism (раздел)

== Areas ==
=== Intersectionality and economics ===
[[File:Deathism.jpg|right|thumb|[[Deathism]] is sometimes related to feminism]]
In 2016 author [http://www.charoshane.com/ Charlotte Shane] has expressed at length her concerned that transhumanism and life extensionism is only of interest to cis-gendered white men in "Life extension technology gives us a bleak future: more white men".<ref>https://splinternews.com/life-extension-technology-gives-us-a-bleak-future-more-1793857274</ref>

Intersectional feminist author and columnist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Penny Laurie Penny]'s 2016 book [[Everything Belongs to the Future]]<ref>https://www.tor.com/2016/06/10/excerpts-everything-belongs-to-the-future-laurie-penny/</ref><ref>https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-Belongs-Future-Laurie-Penny/dp/0765388286</ref> features a future Britain plagued with the author's concerns, elite-controlled life extension drugs, an oppressive police state and runaway social and economic inequality in a kind of a [[oligarchic transhumanism|patriarchal oligarchy]].

Signs of such politicisation of the technological singularity have been compared to the premature and sometime problematic embrace of climate changes by political activists.<ref>[https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23731613-300-apocalypse-not-now-but-the-fate-of-civilisation-is-in-our-hands/ Apocalypse not now but the fate of civilisation is in our hands]</ref>

=== Immortalism ===
Author [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_Horn Dara Horn] released [[Eternal Life: A Novel]]<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Eternal-Life-Novel-Dara-Horn/dp/0393608530</ref> in 2018 tells the story of a multi-thousand year old woman who finds today's 21st century [[immortalism|obsessed with immortality]] and the implications it brings. Horn's op-ed in the New York Times is highly critical of figures such as [[Peter Thiel]] and other [[Silicon Valley]] longevity advocates, whilst optimistically suggesting that newly health-obsessed men will be a positive feminising influence on the world.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/opinion/sunday/silicon-valley-immortality.html The Men Who Want to Live Forever]</ref> Science writer [[Ronald Bailey]] responds, critical of this gendered approach to life extension.<ref>[https://reason.com/blog/2018/01/26/is-immortality-gendered Is Immortality Gendered?]</ref>

=== Artificial intelligence ===
There is a strong pattern to voice automated announcements<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/why-do-so-many-digital-assistants-have-feminine-names/475884/ Why Do So Many Digital Assistants Have Feminine Names?]</ref> and later artificial assistants with female voices<ref>[https://www.ibm.com/blogs/insights-on-business/ibmix/good-men-growing-population-ai-voices-predominantly-female/ Few good men: Why is the growing population of AI voices predominantly female?]</ref> with some concerningly sexist implications.<ref>[https://www.wired.com/2015/10/why-siri-cortana-voice-interfaces-sound-female-sexism/ Siri and Cortana Sound Like Ladies Because of Sexism]</ref> Academic [[Kathleen Richardson]] suggest weaker disembodied voices are more frequently portrayed as female in contrast to more sophisticated male robots.<ref>[https://www.livescience.com/49882-why-robots-female.html Rise of the Fembots: Why Artificial Intelligence Is Often Female]</ref>

Writer [[Gray Scott]] describes the character of AVA from [[Ex Machina]] as "the ultimate feminist. Strong, brilliant, and powerful.", praising the portrayal of powerful feminine super-emotional-intelligence over weaker portrayed characters such as Rachel in [[Blade Runner]].<ref>[http://www.seriouswonder.com/ex-machinas-ava-is-a-feminist-ai/ Ex Machina's Ava Is a Feminist AI]</ref>

=== Sexuality ===
[[Sex robots]] are unwelcome developments for some feminists, possible no more so than feminist academic Kathleen Richardson who founded the [[Campaign Against Sex Robots]].
=== Reproduction ===
The possibility of [[artificial womb]]s accelerating trends already in place via commercial surrogacy options are concerning to some feminists.<ref>[https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2017/11/artificial-wombs-could-liberate-elite-women-expense-reproductive-classes Artificial wombs could liberate elite women at the expense of the reproductive classes]</ref>