decepticonsensual:

insecuriosity replied to your post: 

Disclaimer: I agree with the spirit of this post and I don’t want to change anything about implemented things in past or present tf content. As someone who is aro and ace I related to the idea of robots who had no understanding or interest in (human) sexuality or gender. The increase in femmes just made me feel incredibly cheated, like the characters Id looked up to all this time had never been like me after all.

That’s very reasonable, and I can understand why that would be upsetting, and why the influx of characters of a different gender would drive home that gender is a thing for this society.  I think explicitly aro/ace and/or agender characters in future continuities would be a great development.

scraplette

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 Wait, are we still having thos stupid discussuon? Why cam this fandom happily accept robots who look like dinos, animals, and whatever Skylynx is but anything accents and genders(other than male) are unacceptable and “break the fiction” Why is this still happenings??? Speaking as a British person, I’ve gone through my entire life surrounded by aliens with British accents because most of the time it’s Hollywood’s go to accent to make something sound alien and mysterious.

I KNOW, RIGHT?  In fairness, I haven’t seen it around AS much – what sparked this particularly was the comment Chris McFeely shared on Twitter, taken from the comments section of his The Basics video about female Transformers.  It was… something else, all right.  But yeah, I am so over every form of, “Aliens/robots/cryptids/etc. that look like ME are perfectly normal and good, but ones that look like YOU are pushing the boundaries of believability too far.”  Ugh.

You know, it’s funny because I was having a conversation tonight about almost exactly that; I was with a mixed group of British people and South Africans, and the British folks were complaining about people of their nationality always being cast as villains in movies.  And one of the South Africans sighed and said, “At least you’re classy villains.” 🙂

(Poor old Sky Lynx. 😀  I still remember him topping Cracked’s list of Ten Worst Transformers Alt Modes, purely on the grounds of what is that, seriously, what the fuck is it.)

lickoutyourbrains

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For a moment there, I thought this was about how JRo said Getaway had a new zealand accent.

It was a tongue-in-cheek reference to that fact, but that’s it. 😀

And still more answers!

catholicpanther replied to your post:

christ are people really upset that fictional alien robots don’t all have the same boring midwestern white american accent? Some people need to go outside.

Ah – no, sorry, the accent bit was just the metaphor.  People are upset that fictional alien robots have different genders, in a way that I felt would be more universally seen as silly if it were about them having different accents, even though that’s essentially the same thing for the same reasons.

jabthemoth replied to your post:

Getaway is WHAT??

He’s from Space New Zealand! 😀  Meaning, around the time MTMTE 20 came out (and we got to hear Getaway actually talk for the first time), one fan (and I thiiiiiink this was also Chris McFeely,actually) tweeted to JRo that he and several other readers had noticed Getaway’s speech patterns were distinct, and asked whether he was meant to have an Australian accent.  JRo replied, “Close; he’s from New Zealand.”