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  1. The most interesting thing about this is the concern is with men having AI “Girlfriends”. Yet in fact its women who are most addicted to all forms of fantasy relationships. Talking to my Brother about Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 I remembered that Mrs Montag, like most women in the future society, was addicted to her “family” on screen and really ignored Guy Montag and her real friends. Like many women today she believed the Soap characters were real, just as TV is flooded with “reality TV” content which women become addicted to, add in social media, tick toc and AI Boyfriends and the reality is that women are far more frequently emotionally attached to the unreal. Hence the fact that its girl’s and women’s Mental health that is in free fall as their fantasy world hits the much more hum drum actual real world. In truth the panic about AI Girlfriends is the same as the Victorian panic about prostitutes (female and male) the key thing being that men must not be enticed away from their “duty” to women through marriage. Thus anything that potentially distracts men from this absolute duty is suspect. Whereas of course women’s whims and fantasies aren’t treated in the same way at all. It is after all women who divorce men, to “find myself” or pursue a better offer or be freeee, rarely men

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