A feminist AIBO section would be good too, so long as we all knew it was a joke and that oppression doesn't work that way.
Slightly confused as to what you meant, Complexity, so I read the article you linked to, the gist of which includes:
"oppression can be hard to see and recognize"
and
"One cannot see the meanings of these rituals if one?s focus is riveted upon the individual event in all its particularity, including the particularity of the individual man?s present conscious intentions and motives and the individual woman?s conscious perception of the event in the moment"
An AIBO section would be directed exactly at those problems, no? Trying to work out whether an experience was actually part of systemic oppression or you were just being overly-sensitive. A case in point - I have my son in a sling - he's 18mo and it obviously looks like a struggle from the amount of help I am offered (with shopping, doors, etc. Isn't London lovely?). However, I always have my fem-nerve irritated in such contexts, because I hate being constructed as helpless as discussed in your article.
But as I'm not offered the same degree of help when I don't have him, I have to consider that I might be being overly-sensitive. The article you've linked to asks a clear question - is the help offered practical or purely symbolic, gestural? I think that on balance, it is practical - it is difficult to bend down etc. with him there, I'm not treated in the same way without him there therefore I'm not being 'constructed as helpless' on the basis of being female.
But I had been wondering AIBO? And actually your article helped clarify that for me. So this is a clear example of how AIBO would operate, and not as a joke. Are you convinced? Or do you think of it just as a joke?