Posing a threat: Religious right objects to raunchy robots

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Published: 19 October, 2011, 16:33

A new advertising campaign in one of Moscow’s stores featuring anthropoid-shaped robots in ambiguous poses has been met with furious protests from a local far-right religious movement.

­Moscow’s Central Department Store, also known as TsUM, has surprised its clients and occasional passers-by with a new storefront showcase design.

Not exactly filled with clothing, the windows featured naked robots in poses with obvious sexual references instead, with the whole thing somewhat resembling Björk’s famous All is Full of Love music video, made by Hollywood director Chris Cunningham.

However, the People’s Council, a Moscow-based nationalistic-religious movement, failed to appreciate the cultural link, but noted that many of the mating robot couples had distinctly male features.

http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/tsum-robots-showcase-scandal-203/

You know, I haven't seen Grovelbot around lately.

Here's Bjork: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA

[Warpy]

1. Religious people always go around smelling shit where none exists

and nothing gets them to wrinkle their noses and purse their lips more than a suggestion of sex, even when it's being suggested by non humans.

Somebody needs to tell them how unattractive that expression is.

[laconicsax]

4. When you dedicate your life to an imaginary being, that's bound to happen.

[Warpy]

5. Well, be fair, a lot of them got the point and many of those are here at DU

and I really don't care what gets other people through a dark and lonely night.

The problem comes when they start assuming that "who farted?" expression and directing it at me. They usually don't like what happens next.

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[MNBrewer]

3. Headline suggestion:

Robots cause fairy-tale-obsessed human to explode in indignation

[NMMNG]

6. Are they afraid

the robot children will get ideas?