A life size doll daughter: depressed Chinese man has adopted a realistic doll as his daughter.
Since Asia is basically the birth place of robots, it should come as no shock to anyone that it is socially acceptable to treat a life-size doll like a real person over there.
A Chinese man named Song Bo was diagnosed with a serious illness that caused depression a few years ago. His condition was so bad that he decided he could never marry or have children, which totally sucks for anyone.
Song Bo then stumbled upon a website called Taobao, where he purchased a child-sized ‘love doll’. He quickly started treating the 4’10” love doll like his own daughter, taking her everywhere with him, and even naming her Xiao Die, which means ‘little butterfly’ in Chinese.
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Photos of him and his daughter are all over Weibo (China’s version of Twitter for those that don’t know), making him an internet sensation.
I guess we shouldn’t be shocked, since nowadays our version of hanging out with friends involves sitting in the same room Instagramming photos of how much fun we want the world to think we are having. It is only a matter of time before we replace real people with robots and dolls, and the idea of actual human intimacy is a thing of the past.
I’m really going to miss having random sex with strangers, but at least you can’t catch anything from a robot, right? That’s why they have malware.
