An opinion by Laura Tomah
Yeardisc editor
The dating world isn’t at all what it is cracked up to be.
We’ve all had our share of awful dates and horrible pickup lines.
After all of my most recent adventures some friends offered a simple solution, a robot boyfriend.
OK, I know what you are thinking: this girl has totally gone bonkers and lost her absolute mind.
First let me make a couple of points before you label me as the lonely cat lady. (I don’t even own a cat.)
Let me first start with points that relate both to people in relationships and those who aren’t.
Ladies, I am sure there have been plenty of times when you just wished the man in your life would do simple gestures.
Simple gestures like opening the door, telling you that you’re beautiful and the craziest of all, calling or texting you.
While these simplistic gestures require little or no time on the man’s part, they are simply too much work.
However, if there was such a thing as a robot boyfriend that you could program to perform these simplistic actions, life would be that much more simple.
Think about it. You could design what he looks like, what he does for a living and anything else you wanted.
You could ensure he meets every item on your checklist.
And yes, the secret is out: Men and women both have dating checklists, so don’t even think about denying it.
No more man babies, you know the big strong, tough guys who as soon as they are sick need to be taken care of.
Or the man that somehow never learned how to cook his own dinner or do his laundry or even pick up his own socks.
No more criticizing how much better their mothers do everything.
“Oh, my mom doesn’t fold towels like that,” “My mom didn’t mop like that” or “My mom makes better fried chicken.” We get it already; you love your momma.
Well, robot boyfriend would never do this; he doesn’t even have a mother.
In addition to deciding what robot boyfriend says, you would even be able to program how he dresses.
Honestly he will never wear that tacky shirt, the one that makes you eagerly await cold weather so he’ll be forced to cover it up with a jacket.
Think about it. No more baggy jeans so underwear can be shown off to the entire universe.
Yes, robot boyfriend takes you back to the day of dressing Ken so he wouldn’t embarrass Barbie, only this time you are Barbie.
All and all a robot boyfriend would have its benefits, and it just might be what the world leads to if some severe adjustments aren’t made to this generation.
As for now the dating world is equally as complicated as building this wonderful robot boyfriend.