Everything. It has to be in absolutely everything. Even fucking Transformers...
Can't have the kiddies questioning the "lack" of "soft, queer, enbee shit" in their favourite cartoon series, now can we?
Hasbro makes shit for girls, too, Kotaku-freaks. Ya don't need to steal Transformers, too, smh... :-/
Sidenote: Kotaku has always been this bad/at the vanguard of this shit, hasn't it? Like, unironically, that's why this sub is so-named, no..?
Also, AT WHAT POINT HAS IT EVER BEEN NORMAL TO HAVE A SENTENCE WHERE A CHILD ADDRESSES A ROBOT's "Pronouns"..? WHEN HAS THAT EVER BEEN A LOGICAL LINE OF DIALOGUE??
Oh that's right - never. Because normal human beings don't feel the need to even mention such things.
This got deeper than I expected. Kudos to you for this. 👌🏻
Did the individual “Reapers” in Mass Effect go by he..? I can’t remember…
Also, in Star Wars, “Droids” (not “robots”, remember!) seem to be pretty universally regarded as “he”, unless they are specifically a “she” - when this is occasionally relevant, anyway…
Which, as you say, grants them a degree of “personhood”…
Like, C-3PO is definitely male… I guess with R2-D2 and BB8 we kind of just… Assume?
Feel like it would have been pretty weird for cast and crew, when making the Original Trilogy, if R2 was referred to as anything other than male, given that Kenny Baker was still inside “him”/it, at that point!!
The original transformers movie is accidentally great. The executives wanted to sell new toys, so the writers accommodated the corporate greed by killing off most of the old characters in brutally violent fashion. The end result is a pretty messed up kids movie.
Narrator: Meanwhile inside the Autobots locker room:
Bumblebee: Lookout! A decepticon!
Bumblebee: Oh nevermind it's just Nightshade.
The Autobots share a hearty laugh, Nightshade was not present because "they" shower with the girlbots and Bumblebee wouldn't have told that joke in front of Nightshade because he can't afford to get another complain from HR.
It would be… Deeply symbolic, if the Autobots collapsed into internal conflict and weakness because they were busy focusing on “internal” problems such as this, while meanwhile, the Decepticons were laser-focussed on their goal, and executed anyone who got in the way/questioned it…
Yes, that would be… Almost too close to the bone.
Won’t happen, though. Diversity is strength (!), after all… 🙄
Everything. It has to be in absolutely everything. Even fucking Transformers...
Can't have the kiddies questioning the "lack" of "soft, queer, enbee shit" in their favourite cartoon series, now can we?
Hasbro makes shit for girls, too, Kotaku-freaks. Ya don't need to steal Transformers, too, smh... :-/
Sidenote: Kotaku has always been this bad/at the vanguard of this shit, hasn't it? Like, unironically, that's why this sub is so-named, no..?
Also, AT WHAT POINT HAS IT EVER BEEN NORMAL TO HAVE A SENTENCE WHERE A CHILD ADDRESSES A ROBOT's "Pronouns"..? WHEN HAS THAT EVER BEEN A LOGICAL LINE OF DIALOGUE??
Oh that's right - never. Because normal human beings don't feel the need to even mention such things.
Fuck this absolute bullshit.
This got deeper than I expected. Kudos to you for this. 👌🏻
Did the individual “Reapers” in Mass Effect go by he..? I can’t remember…
Also, in Star Wars, “Droids” (not “robots”, remember!) seem to be pretty universally regarded as “he”, unless they are specifically a “she” - when this is occasionally relevant, anyway…
Which, as you say, grants them a degree of “personhood”…
Like, C-3PO is definitely male… I guess with R2-D2 and BB8 we kind of just… Assume?
Feel like it would have been pretty weird for cast and crew, when making the Original Trilogy, if R2 was referred to as anything other than male, given that Kenny Baker was still inside “him”/it, at that point!!
This was the series created to sell toys to boys? So glad I was never in to it.
Also Flashgds did it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg0D1PpgCXs
Crackin tits, Megatron!
The original transformers movie is accidentally great. The executives wanted to sell new toys, so the writers accommodated the corporate greed by killing off most of the old characters in brutally violent fashion. The end result is a pretty messed up kids movie.
That was really good.
OUTRO
INT, LOCKER ROOM -DAY
Narrator: Meanwhile inside the Autobots locker room:
Bumblebee: Lookout! A decepticon!
Bumblebee: Oh nevermind it's just Nightshade.
The Autobots share a hearty laugh, Nightshade was not present because "they" shower with the girlbots and Bumblebee wouldn't have told that joke in front of Nightshade because he can't afford to get another complain from HR.
Unironically…
It would be… Deeply symbolic, if the Autobots collapsed into internal conflict and weakness because they were busy focusing on “internal” problems such as this, while meanwhile, the Decepticons were laser-focussed on their goal, and executed anyone who got in the way/questioned it…
Yes, that would be… Almost too close to the bone.
Won’t happen, though. Diversity is strength (!), after all… 🙄
Why is Sam Whitwickey deepfried and crispy?
It's SPARK NOT SAM REEEEE
Bankman-Fried?
I was more into GI Joe and Thundercats but wasn’t Transformers like all those other 80s cartoons meant to appeal to boys?
Boys: Otherwise known as pedo fodder
Yes, that is the agenda here.
That's total bullshit
Hahahahhahaha. "It" it is then.
Lol. Non-gendered robots that ascribe to contemporary gender ideology nonsense. You've got to be kidding.
Thanks for the laugh, kotaku.
bad time to be an individual watching children's cartoons. Which is every time. You shouldn't be watching children's cartoons
Megatroon transforms into a gun and blows his own head off.
Is hardly a difference between transmission and trans mission
One changes gears and affect your acceleration, the other changes gears and affects your acceleration
That was funny, good job