Reminder: figure out the specifics of why I'm interested in robots. Watch all of Battlestar Gallactica as research.

A possible reason:
They're not human and therefore – perhaps much like the mattachine or the Shakespearean fool who reside on the margins of society (yet tell unspoken truths) – have a certain freedom that humans in human bodies do not. Gender transitivity, immortality, lack of genitals?

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