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 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!!