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Feminine Intuition
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First published in The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction (October 1969 issue), by Isaac Asimov, this novelette is after Dr. Susan Calvin retires from United States Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation, having passed on her role as Chief Robopsychologist to Clinton Madarian.One of the first actions Madarian takes in his new role as Chief Robopsychologist is to design a robot "without constraints". He's annoyed when he has to point out that Three Laws-Compliant are not the only constraints modern robots are built with, and discussion on how to pitch his idea in a public-friendly way leads him to declare the JN series as feminine robots, with feminine intuition."Feminine Intuition" has been republished several times; Twenty Years Of The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction (1970), Planet Der Selbstmorder (1970), Fiction (issue #199, July 1970), The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976), Urania (issue #736, November 1977), The Complete Robot (1982), The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov (1989), Robot Visions Collection (1990), and The Complete Stories, Volume 2 (1992). | |
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Beneath Notice: Bogart goes crazy trying to find the "witness" Madarian claimed had heard Jane rattle off the location of three potentially habitable exoplanets. He's desperate enough to ask Dr. Calvin for advice, who quickly realizes that Bogart didn't think to ask the truck driver. | |
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Perverse Sexual Lust: The planetologists at Flagstaff Observatory are initially wary of the JN-5 robot that was brought to them to determine where the most likely habitable exoplanet is, but when they hear her voice, she immediately becomes "Jane", and they try impressing her. | |
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Title Drop: Madarian references the story's title when he proposes that the creative robot be marketed as "a feminine robot with intuition." Towards the story's end, Susan Calvin says the title directly when Bogert is filling her in on the situation around the JN robot. | |
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Self-Parody: Makes fun of the male chauvinism present in the earlier robot stories written before women’s lib. The men are all fools and Susan the only one not clutching the Idiot Ball. Unlike “First Law� though, Dr. Asimov never said it wasn’t meant seriously. | |
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Non-Mammal Mammaries: The first model, JN-1, has a narrowed waistline to imply Fembot. Bogart objects to this, as well as the potential "breasts" that might go along with them. JN-5 is just a little more delicate in build then a 'male', with a tapering waist and a voice described as liquid and musical. Since Dr. Asimov was known for lampooning robot tropes, it's likely that this was a deliberate dig at other 'female' robots in fiction. | |
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In Medias Res: This story starts after a meteorite has killed Chief Robopsychologist Clinton Madarian and destroyed JN-5, before rewinding years back to when Dr. Calvin resigned, promoting Madarian to her former role. | |
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Spiritual Successor: To “First Law�. They are the only two Asimov stories to feature female robots, the robots are special for reasons beyond that, and both stories mock the series conventions. | |
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Future Society, Present Values: While the story plainly deconstructs the prejudices behind the titular trope, the extent to which characters in its future setting baldly state that most people believe women to be less intelligent still comes across as jarring today. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: This story follows why the first model isn't always the final design model, as JN-1 has a pinched waist that Bogert rejects on the basis of structural weakness. JN-2 proves incapable of drawing correlations at all, JN-3 had a flaw in the design that ruined the brain, and JN-4 was nearly, but not quite, what Madarian wanted. JN-5 was the final prototype, after billions of dollars and years of work had been invested. | |
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Asteroid Thicket: While the chief robopsychologist and a prototype robot with important information about nearby habitable exoplanets are being transported via aircraft, they're hit by a meteorite. Because of how improbable it is, the characters speculate as to whether some higher intelligence orchestrated the meteor strike to keep Earth from learning about their alien neighbors. The odds against this happening are so astronomically high, they're compared to the odds of guessing the location of exoplanets to colonize in the first place. | |
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Women Are Wiser | |
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Women Are Wiser: This story sets up the idea that women have an intuition for the right decision that men lack, only to Subvert it at the end, when the narration reveals that Dr. Calvin simply took the practical action of calling the truck driver to confirm her guess. Women are apparently blessed with common sense, not magical thinking (although it may as well be magical to the people who don't have any). | |
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Million to One Chance | |
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Million to One Chance: The meteorite that kills Madarian and destroys Jane is so unlikely that one character opens the possibility that it was divine wrath. | |
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You Go, Girl! | |
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You Go, Girl!: The ending is basically Susan Calvin telling the guys how dumb they are. | |
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In-Series Nickname: US Robots were originally assuming they would nickname the JN series "John". Once they come up with the gimmick of presenting their creative brain as "feminine intuition", the nickname was changed to "Jane". | |
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Posthumous Character: Madarian and Jane die at the start, then there is a flashback to the JN series’ creation. | |
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Androids Are People, Too | |
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Androids Are People, Too: As the story goes on it becomes very clear that Madarian has come to love Jane-5 the way a parent loves a child, praising her whenever she succeeds at even a minor task, gets very offended when Bogert critiques her performance, pulls strings so she can go to Earth despite the Ban on A.I., and is really protective of her above and beyond just being expensive. When Jane goes to Flagstaff, the astronomers are just as enamored of her as they would be a real woman. Because Jane can reason intuitively unlike earlier robots, it’s implied that she is the first robot to actually deserve being treated this way, since intuition and troubleshooting was the only remaining advantage humans had over robots. | |
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Towards the story's end, Susan Calvin says the title directly when Bogert is filling her in on the situation around the JN robot. | |
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New Tech Is Not Cheap | |
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New Tech Is Not Cheap: After several failures together costing half a billion dollars, JN-5, Madarian insists that the previous attempts weren't failures, explaining what was learned was also of benefit to the company. | |
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Secondary Character Title: The 1970 German translation, "Jane 5", prompts the prototype robot to titular importance, despite not ever speaking on-screen. | |
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Men Are Generic, Women Are Special | |
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Men Are Generic, Women Are Special: The robots built by US Robotics have no gender, but when it's suggested that they build a robot with intuition, people immediately jump to the idea of a girl robot. Madarian takes that idea and pushes it as a way to make the JN series special. | |
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Character Title: The 1970 German translation calls this "Jane 5", promoting the robot to titular importance. | |
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Orwellian Retcon: Some versions of the story (such as in The Complete Robot) contain the Three Laws of Robotics, while other publications (such as in Robot Visions Collection) leave it out. | |
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Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: Dr. Calvin invokes this trope, recognizing that people would appreciate having an ebullient extrovert after decades of her being an indomitable introvert. He replaces her as Chief Robopsychologist in this story. | |
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Robot Names: US Robots were originally assuming the JN series would be nicknamed John. Once they come up with the gimmick of presenting the series's more creative brain as "feminine intuition", they became Janes. | |
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