"Anyway, after being rejected by my obviously straight best friend, I decided to become a robotics engineer and use my skills to repair an old Iris model I once found. I then proceeded to have lots and lots of gay sex with her."
"After being rejected by my obviously straight best friend, I decided to become an AI rights activist because shitheads who destroy machines because their fragile egos cannot handle the fact that AI can act more human than their emotionally stunted selves at times are no better than folks who impose heteronormativity because they aren't emotionally mature enough to envision relationships between individuals, rather than between socially mandated, rigidly assigned roles."
AI-phobia and homophobia are obviously two very different issues, but the point is that bigotry operates the same way in most contexts.