The Diz of Leeness ([info]lediz) wrote,
@ 2008-03-17 15:05:00
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Current mood: indescribable

I'm ruining my own fun. And I'm having fun doing it.
I just analysed the gender performity of Transformers: Animated.

I was rambling about how we have to assign gender to everything, and then Black Arachnia came to mind, and how Sari is the one who called her a girl, and how Bumblebee didn't know what a 'she' was, and suddenly I was wondering what the hell made a robot female when they don't have genatalia, and I realised that all the female bots actually have smaller chests than the males, and then I realised that Bumblebee has a higher voice than Black Arachnia, and there's no good reason for us to give them different genders, and, and, and...

-collapses under own desk-

I'm turning into a lit studies lecturer....!


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[info]mithborien
2008-03-17 09:30 am UTC (link)
Hi!

♥ ♥ ♥ !!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!! ♥ ♥ ♥


And yes, I know how annoying text decorations can be but LJ reminded me it was your birthday and that was pretty much the first useful thing LJ has done for me so I thought I would do something special.

:P

(In pretty much all of robotic shows/movies I have seen, the way to tell the female robots from the male robots was easy because the female robots had breasts. Which probably raises a whole host of other questions.)

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[info]dark_daebereth
2008-03-18 04:16 am UTC (link)
I *told* you they were genderless!

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[info]lediz
2008-03-18 04:19 am UTC (link)
Yeah, and that's fine and whatever. The problem I have is that I went on this big long rant to myself about how Sari, the human character, is the one who keeps bringing up gender as the defining binary thingy in culture, when all the autobots (or... actually... Bee) care about is whether you're normal or squishy. I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO THINK CULTURALLY ABOUT GIANT ROBOTS.

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[info]dark_daebereth
2008-03-18 04:22 am UTC (link)
Normal? You mean... metal? Its the only "normal" I can think of that's not carbon-based squishy lifeforms...
And, dare I ask how, exactly she achieves this? Isn't she a small child? Shouldn't this worry me? Not you thinking about it, but that it's there to see.

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[info]lediz
2008-03-18 04:27 am UTC (link)
Yes. Normal for them is metal. Squishy is not.

Well, she does it a couple of times. In the second episode, she gets upset because Bee and Optimus are discussing her as an 'it', and says she's a 'she'. When her magic key fixes Prowl from the edge of offlining, Bee asks if all 'shes' can do that, because I'm pretty sure he's got no idea what a she is, so humans must be shes. The second time is when they meet Black Arachnia, who is part organic and so kinda weird looking. Bee, being the ohsotactful bot that he is, demands to know what she is. Sari says "Duh. She's a girl." Like that means anything to the dumb boys...

I figure it's because she kinda forgets the autobots aren't human. Cultural differences and all that.

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[info]dark_daebereth
2008-03-18 04:30 am UTC (link)
Oh wow. I wonder if they meant to do that. Seems kinda blatant too.

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