Enough Is Not Enough: The Integration of Transhumanism into Pop Culture

“Hi, Silimary. I didn’t expect to see you here. I thought you’d be at your feminist group. Don’t you guys meet on Saturday nights?”

“Oh hi, Thrust. I quit that group. Outgrew it. They’re determined to let outdated, defeatist mindsets rule their bodies and minds.”

“Really? That’s odd – for a group that claims to be about equality between the sexes.”

“Yes, it’s absolutely nonsensical. Would you believe everybody else in that group believes biotech a male-driven boogeyman? That’s the reason I quit.”

“Does this have something to do with the new Pink Viagra?”

“Yep. They say it’s not normal to artificially increase their libidos. I say if they want to fit into the norm, that’s their business, but they’ll be left behind. Real feminists will embrace biotechnology’s empowering benefits, because the future belongs to the empowered female. Check out this flyer I got at the Transhuman Institute of Technological Services. (T.I.T.S)”

“So what do you think, Thrust? Pretty damn transhuman, eh?”

“Wow – that chick in the flyer – I mean that female in the flyer looks pretty damn enhanced. In a totally rational way, of course. I mean, it’s perfectly reasonable for women to make their breasts and bottoms that large. And their cognitions too, if they feel like it.”

“Yes, transhumanists support having exacting control over all bodily functions and cognitive processes. All empowered women should be enhancing themselves. Enhancement is just a natural extension of evolution. So rejecting Pink Viagra is reflexive misandry at its worst.”

“Yep. We don’t need any reflexive misandrists in the transhumanism movement.”

“I agree. That’s why I got the Pink Viagra patch. And when they come out with the Pink Viagra – producing brain implant, I’ll be the first one to have it drilled into my skull. I’ve already signed up.”

“Drilled?”

“Yes, drilled. They have to drill your skull to push the Pink Viagra-producing capsule into your brain.”

“Don’t you think that’s a bit . . .extreme?”

“Of course not. As a transhumanist, I take great pride in having 100% control over my body and my libido. There’s no way I’m going to let society dictate what I should or shouldn’t be doing with my body. I claim full ownership and full responsibility.”

“Of course. But don’t you want to wait until there’s a less invasive way to insert the Viagra? For example, I bet in a few years we’ll figure out how to manipulate our genes into instructing our bodies to produce hormonal Viagra by the bucketful.”

“If I’m not going to let society dictate my life experience, why should I let the pace of technology dictate my life experience? That would be slavery!”

“I guess you’re right.”

“Of course I’m right. And you would be a proponent of circumstantial slavery not to agree with me.”

“Well, I’m certainly against slavery of any kind.”

“Transhumanism is all about empowering individuals by giving them absolute choice and control. And T.I.T.S. is leading the new feminists by acknowledging and asserting the fact that women should be in complete control of their bodies and libidos.”

“Men too. Men should enhance their libidos to freakish – I mean ultra-healthy levels. If they want to, of course. And if I want to increase the size of my manhood to the size of my arm . . or leg, that’s my business.”

“Yes, of course. And soon libido-enhanced females – and males – will be the norm.”

“As well as males with gargantuan manparts – they’ll be the norm too, just like women with gargantuan breasts and bottoms.

“Absolutely. And if we transhumanists want to fit into the norm, that’s our business.”

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CMStewart is a psychological horror novelist, a Singularity enthusiast, and a blogger. You can follow her on Twitter @CMStewartWrite or go check out her blog CMStewartWrite.