Not sure if this will be allowed since it might get heated, but I found this article to be rather comical. http://io9.com/5932960/study-shows-that-robots-suffer-from-sixism

To me, it's a freaking machine and will assign whatever chore I want to the unit. Much like human beings I see it as just an entity regardless of its coloring, design, make, model, etc... . As long as it does the job it was designed to do, and doesn't break down, I don't care if it's yellow with barney the dinosaur on it.