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Singapore Writers Festival: British author Jeanette Winterson addresses sex bots, hope for humanity
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British author Jeanette Winterson delivering her speech, titled If We Can Imagine It, at the Singapore Writers Festival.
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SINGAPORE – The intricacies and mundanities of sex bots got an unexpected airing in British author Jeanette Winterson’s sold-out talk, If We Can Imagine It, at the Singapore Writers Festival on Saturday.
To uproarious laughter from a packed house at the Victoria Theatre, Winterson observed that sex bots are really “35 kilos of silicone” and women would not bother “to drag these things around. Women have an acute sense of the ridiculous but men do not”.
