Well, it's sort of related, isn't it? To c&p a bit that got left from the post as tangental:
(It's like, I really really doubt the alien robots have anything we'd consider requisite equipment, but they are so very gendered as male. Male pronouns, male actors, male *assumptions* when it came to the writing. Imagining a female voice coming out of those things would be... okay, It would be cool, but I think we'd all do a double take.
It's not that they do anything that would be *less* appropriate if a female did it. It's just that male is assumed as the default, and more to the point, WOULD be assumed as the default even if the autobots had insisted on using ungendered pronouns. The human characters refer to Bumblebee as a "he" before the other autobots back them up on that.)
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Date: 2007-07-08 05:57 pm (UTC)(It's like, I really really doubt the alien robots have anything we'd consider requisite equipment, but they are so very gendered as male. Male pronouns, male actors, male *assumptions* when it came to the writing. Imagining a female voice coming out of those things would be... okay, It would be cool, but I think we'd all do a double take.
It's not that they do anything that would be *less* appropriate if a female did it. It's just that male is assumed as the default, and more to the point, WOULD be assumed as the default even if the autobots had insisted on using ungendered pronouns. The human characters refer to Bumblebee as a "he" before the other autobots back them up on that.)