Ironhide7 wrote:Warning: Rant
For those of you who think Arcee shouldn't be in TF2 because she's a girl quit being sexist and button up.
Here's what's sexist.
They create a line of robots. The "male" robots have no limitations. They're humanoid, animals, etc.
In fact, many of these robots are androgynous. The G1 seekers and Datsuns or Jazz can all look "female" if drawn with what we call feminine postures.
The only thing that makes them "male" is their voices, and that's solely due to the "boys don't buy girls" mindset that has seen Hasbro release far less female characters in franchises like G1 Joe etc.
But they are portrayed as an asexual race, not a race of mixed sexes, of male and female.
Then they introduce females. These females all have the same body shape, one that mimics the human female form, with curves and breasts.
Their faces all have human female features too.
They're token females, the very essence of sexism.
This sexism is furthered when the only main female Transformer, who is coloured Pink, spends all her time mothering people and generally acting like an Autobot maid.
The other fembots, though brief, all manage to act like typical humans females too.
There's your sexism, robots designated female and then limited in design and role because of it.
There was never a logical reason that an asexual race had female robots, let alone why they all had humanoid female forms or all acted like/had stereotyped human female roles, and it is that huge lack of logic and stereotyping that is why they don't, in the eyes of many, belong in TF.
Call us sexist all you want, but we're not the ones championing a token pink female.
Dark Zarak wrote:Wait a minute. Who says Arcee isn't G1????
There is a percentage of fans who, sadly, won't aknowledge anything from the movie on as G1.
In their eyes, the movie was the start of a new generation, a second generation, nothing after season 2 is G1.
They're kind of the elitist's elitists.
Of course, why they have any interest in the films is beyond me.
If they couldn't accept G1 as G1, they should hate the movie.