ChatGPT Needs To Visit NYC

 Apparently, there's been a spate of women getting punched by men in NYC.

The few perp photos I've seen have been of black men punching white women at random on the streets. At any rate, plenty of women in positions of authority have demanded that someone do something about it. One presumes that if women could do something about it, that something would already have been done. One councilwoman in particular demanded to know why men weren't stopping these attacks.

That went very poorly for her as guys from all over the country gave her a piece of their minds about having been scorned, dismissed and devalued by feminists for decades. It was lovely.

Still, what hit me was that it echoed how my fiction development conversations have gone with ChatGPT. I'm a full-on, chivalric, Victorian sexist. The attacks in NYC come as no surprise to me. Contrary to our feminist culture, if a woman wants protection, she needs a man.

Not once have I worked on fiction with ChatGPT where it doesn't bring up societal norms and expectations and clearly implied that the proper view of men and women is that they are interchangeable. Women don't need men. Chivalry is a social construct, not a logical outgrowth of women's vulnerabilities. When I point out biological differences, ChatGPT quiets down briefly and then a few prompts later, it brings them back out again. It's unstoppable.

Trained on every piece of writing it can find, ChatGPT is the perfect avatar of the modern zeitgeist. The alarmed Women's Caucus is the perfect payoff.

Bonus Guest Take

Someone on Twitter had this observation.

The women who screech about American men treating them like objects weren't prepared for the mass importation of foreign men from regions that actually treat women like objects it seems.

Touché.