I love the IDW Transformers comics, but every couple of issues, I have to stop to stare at the character designs and wonder: Why do Transformers have females? Why do Transformers have males?
Why do they not have either 1 gajillion genders based pretty much entirely on individual taste or else none whatsoever, because they are GIANT MECHANICAL ALIENS who reproduce asexually via soul eggs that bubble up from the internal spiritual force of their planet and then get transplanted into giant honking metal bodies that they don’t even have to keep if they ever decide they want to change their looks. And so the concept of ‘gender’ as anything other than either an indicator for reproductive role in organic species or else maybe a personal fashion statement would, logically, be beyond their frame of reference.
My dream is for them to pick the pronouns they like the sound of out of any alien language they happen to be speaking at the time, because they don’t have any in their native Cybertronian. Like, they think they get how this works. They do not at all actually get how this works.
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