| metahuman n.
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1991 M. Barr Metahuman βKippleβ or, Do Male Movie Makers Dream of Electric Women?: Speciesism and Sexism in Blade Runner in Retrofitting Blade Runner 25
J. R. Isidore [...] explains his definition of βkippleβ to the android Pris. Both of these transformed humans (or metahumans) are treated as subhuman, useless objects by their society. They are defined (and despised) as metahuman kipple who threaten to drive out human nonkipple. Humans assign arbitrary definitions and enforce arbitrary rules pertaining to these two metahuman beings. |