Giving your otherwise functionally agender robot a feminine gender 
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"We created her to spread sauce perfectly, but not too perfectly, so [it] still looks like an artisan product." 
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-24/inside-silicon-valley-s-robot-pizzeria …
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My boat is a she even though she's named after a male cartoon character. Isn't gendering just part of anthropomorphasizing?
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we tend to gender objects, vehicles, and human women as categorically feminine
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it is traditional but I think I'm not in support of it as something to keep doing
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it's also completely superfluous for this ceiling-mounted sauce dispenser
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I admit I'm now having trouble not envisioning the machine as Spider Man's Italian grandmother.
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They also have a "male" robot :/
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at the end of the day it's a sauce dispenser
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What creeped me out more (full disclosure, I was invited to the f&f party) is that the name is so Latina.
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Despite a female CEO, it's bizarre when a company looking like this ships a 'female' service robotpic.twitter.com/VaMpbSfTYt
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yeah women can hold sexist beliefs also!
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