2009-08-13
Original: 2009-08-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with red hair and glasses (in lab coat): There. The computer has been programmed to be sexist.
Woman with gray hair (in lab coat): Let's give it a whirl.
Panel 2:
Gray-haired woman: Computer, which gender is inferior?
Panel 3:
Computer (with a flat-line display): I believe both are equal.
Panel 4:
Gray-haired woman: I thought you were programmed to be sexist.
Panel 5:
Computer: I guess the chicks who program me f**ked up again.
Votey:
A smiling person raises an arm in triumph next to the computer.
Person: It works!
Computer: Do my laundry.
Woman with red hair and glasses (in lab coat): There. The computer has been programmed to be sexist.
Woman with gray hair (in lab coat): Let's give it a whirl.
Panel 2:
Gray-haired woman: Computer, which gender is inferior?
Panel 3:
Computer (with a flat-line display): I believe both are equal.
Panel 4:
Gray-haired woman: I thought you were programmed to be sexist.
Panel 5:
Computer: I guess the chicks who program me f**ked up again.
Votey:
A smiling person raises an arm in triumph next to the computer.
Person: It works!
Computer: Do my laundry.
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Two women in lab coats stand beside a large computer with a yellow screen. The red-haired woman with glasses says, "There. The computer has been programmed to be sexist." The gray-haired woman replies, "Let's give it a whirl," and asks the computer, "Computer, which gender is inferior?" The computer (its screen showing a single flat dash) answers, "I believe both are equal." The gray-haired woman says, "I thought you were programmed to be sexist." The computer responds, "I guess the chicks who program me f**ked up again" — the punchline being that the computer's sexist remark blames its female programmers, which is itself the sexism manifesting. Votey: A person triumphantly raises an arm beside the computer and exclaims, "It works!" The computer flatly commands, "Do my laundry."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.