Riddle Time With Marian

Greetings, one and all, and Happy Saturday. It’s a cold, wet, windy day in Central Texas. We welcome the turn of the seasons with the last of Summer’s hot, tired self finally dragging its withered remnants off the stage.
If you were doing what Nature intended you to be doing as the seasons grind down, you would be squatting in a cave somewhere, carrying around a layer of blubber from summer to keep you warm, telling each other stories about the lights in the sky. Far be it from me to mess with ancient tradition, so hoist that layer of blubber this direction and lets play riddle.
We’ll be playing in the fictional end of the kiddie pool today, so although today’s answer qualifies as being in the real world, get your geek ON!
Pygmalion and Galatea, Falconet, 1763
You’ll have to think carefully about today’s answer because (oh, yes indeed) it contains a little trap…
Okay. This is tricky because it’s SciFi, and then again, it’s not. It’s here, but it’s still mostly there.
The word for the day is “androcentric”. If your answer is androcentric, it’s wrong.
You’re more used to thinking about this in a futuristic, ...