Editing Gynoid (section)

===The perfect woman===
[[Image:Falconet - Pygmalion & Galatee (1763)-black bg.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Étienne Maurice Falconet]]: ''Pygmalion et Galatée'' (1763). Although not robotic, [[Galatea (mythology)|Galatea]]'s inorganic origin has led to comparisons with gynoids.]]
A long tradition exists in literature of the construction of an artificial embodiment of a certain type of ideal woman, and fictional gynoids have been seen as an extension of this theme.{{sfnp|Melzer|2006| page = [https://archive.org/details/alienconstructio00melz/page/n214 202]}} Examples include [[Hephaestus]] in the [[Iliad]] who created female servants of metal, and [[Ilmarinen]] in the [[Kalevala]] who created an artificial wife. [[Pygmalion (mythology)|Pygmalion]], from [[Ovid]]'s account, is one of the earliest conceptualizations of constructions similar to gynoids in literary history.{{sfnp|Melzer|2006| page = [https://archive.org/details/alienconstructio00melz/page/n214 202]}} In this myth a female statue is sculpted that is so beautiful that the creator falls in love with it, and after praying to [[Aphrodite]], the goddess takes pity on him and converts the statue into a real woman, [[Galatea (mythology)|Galatea]], with whom Pygmalion has children.

The [[Maschinenmensch]] ("machine-human"), also called "Parody," "Futura," "Robotrix," or the "Maria impersonator," in [[Fritz Lang]]'s ''[[Metropolis (1927 film)|Metropolis]]'' is the first example of gynoid in film: a femininely shaped robot is given skin so that she is not known to be a robot and successfully impersonates the imprisoned Maria and works convincingly as an [[exotic dancer]].{{sfnp|Melzer|2006| page = [https://archive.org/details/alienconstructio00melz/page/n214 202]}}

Fictional gynoids are often unique products made to fit a particular man's desire, as seen in the novel ''[[The Future Eve|Tomorrow's Eve]]'' and films ''[[The Perfect Woman (1949 film)|The Perfect Woman]]'', ''[[The Stepford Wives]]'', ''[[Mannequin (1987 film)|Mannequin]]'' and ''[[Weird Science (film)|Weird Science]]'',<ref name=desirbody230>{{cite book |title= The desirable body: cultural fetishism and the erotics of consumption|last= Stratton|first=Jon |year= 2001|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=US |isbn=978-0-252-06951-2 | page = 230}}</ref> and the creators are often male "[[mad scientist]]s" such as the characters [[Rotwang]] in ''Metropolis'', [[List  of  Blade Runner characters#Dr. Eldon Tyrell|Tyrell]] in ''Blade Runner'', and the husbands in ''The Stepford Wives''.<ref name=technophob78>{{cite book |title= Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology|last= Dinello|first= Daniel |year= 2005|publisher= University of Texas Press|page= 78|isbn=978-0-292-70986-7}}</ref> Gynoids have been described as the "ultimate geek fantasy: a metal-and-plastic woman of your own."<ref name=popscibots>{{cite web | url = http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2008-12/return-bodacious-bots | title = Return of the Bodacious 'Bots | first = Julia | last = Wallace | date = 16 December 2008 | work = [[Popular Science]]}}</ref>

''[[The Bionic Woman]]'' television series popularized the word ''fembot''. These fembots were a line of powerful, lifelike gynoids with the faces of protagonist [[Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman)|Jaime Sommers]]'s best friends.<ref>{{cite book| last=Browne |first= Ray B.|title=Forbidden Fruits: Taboos and Tabooism in Culture |publisher=Popular Press |date=1984 |isbn=9780879722555}}</ref> They fought in two multi-part episodes of the series: "Kill Oscar" and "Fembots in Las Vegas," and despite the feminine [[Prefix (linguistics)|prefix]], there were also male versions, including some designed to impersonate particular individuals for the purpose of infiltration. While not truly [[Artificial intelligence|artificially intelligent]], the fembots still had extremely sophisticated programming that allowed them to pass for human in most situations. The term ''fembot'' was also used in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.<ref>Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Episode 5/15, "I Was Made To Love You." First aired February 1, 2001.</ref>

The 1987 science-fiction film ''[[Cherry 2000]]'' portrayed a gynoid character which was described by the male protagonist as his "perfect partner". The 1964 TV series ''[[My Living Doll]]'' features a robot, portrayed by [[Julie Newmar]], who is similarly described. The film ''[[Her (2013 film)|Her]]'' (2013) depicts an Artificial Intelligence assistant called Samantha, whom the protagonist, Theodore, falls in love with until her intelligence surpasses human comprehension and she leaves to fulfil her higher purpose.

More recently, the 2015 science-fiction film ''[[Ex Machina (film)|Ex Machina]]'' featured a genius inventor experimenting with gynoids in an effort to create the perfect companion.