If it was a Futurama setting, would he be Gender Bender?
Bender had his gender bent twice! Once when he had a sex change operation and became Coilette to participate in the robot Olympics, and later when the Borax Kid and the Rock Alien changed the gender of everyone on the Planet Express.
Both episodes are imperfect through today’s lens but I actually did enjoy the Coilette episode.
“You’re making us look bad in front of the other genders!” And “Do you promise to get out of my gender and stay out?”
“He’s”
So Gender is male? Interesting.
Yeah, gender being a social construct doesn’t mean everyone everywhere just suddenly becomes genderless androgynous blobs, we still express our gender in the ways we want to express them.
For example High heels, sheer leggings, long curly hair, and a flowy skirt and poofy blouse adorned with shiny bits. Am I describing the style dress of women today or the style of dress of 17th century French kings?
What does being a robot have to do with anything? He still has male pronouns.
- Robots presumably don’t have a need to be gendered, at least in most portrayal of robots I’ve seen.
- The creator refered to it with a male pronouns, probably because their vision of the character have masculine features. That doesn’t necessarily mean the character itself is male gendered.
But it’s a specific he. It’s referring to a specific person.
And why is a generic pronoun male?
The answer to your second question is that ‘he’ was historically used as generic pronouns, though it’s not as acceptable nowadays.
I like that player.
Always fun when art includes the Warforged standard three finger hands rather than the human standard five finger ones. It’s such a little detail that doesn’t truly matter (may not even be playing in Eberron, or could be a non-standard Eberron with slightly different lore, the distinction will probably never actually come up, etc), but it’s always nice to see
Sam Riegel wrote this
Or Freddie Wong
