id transform into a shovel. and beat you.

i’ll refer to them as femmes or fembots when you call the male characters mascs or mascbots in the same breath. now that sounds silly, doesn’t it?

"Robot men and femmes"... The women word is right there... Robot women even sounds better than what ever hell that is.

i’m assuming you mean “they” as writers for canon transformers media and like. i do not have the time to get into the bullshit of how a lot of the misogyny the transformers fandom perpetuates COMES from canon. authors like simon furman hate women so so deeply their work is infused with it, and for a while that work was canon. just because it was officially published doesn’t mean it has to be respected. and it isn’t respected. by like anyone. it was retconned. i understand what you’re trying to say, but your “now now” tone is not appreciated. male writer have and continue to try to justify female transformers as an “other” so this “well sometimes writers use it” doesn’t fly with me

i’m realizing i lowkey misread your reply just a little bit and i do apologize for that but ive become very jaded when it comes to the tone of replies because i keep getting “i agree with your point BUT” specifically in regard to any critique of misogyny i have. ill get “i agree with what you’re saying but make your own post” ill make my own post and then get “i agree with what you’re saying but you’re targeting the wrong branch of the franchise” or “i agree but x y and z also exists so” i can’t criticize the fandom. i can’t criticize the writers. i can’t criticize the big multimillion company behind the franchise. no matter where i go or how i approach it. whether i approach it jokingly and more lighthearted or genuinely seriously im dismissed because everyone would prefer to exist comfortably than have to have difficult conversations. and the thing is the point that’s trying to be made TO ME is the same point im making. it doesn’t matter that male characters have mech, its not the equivalent to femme or fembot since those are inherently tied to gender while mech derives from mechanical or mechanoid and was applied a gender to specifically other women. taking a term that has no gender and applying gender to it to try to seem “above gender” while still using femme and fembot is ridiculous and seemingly something we agree on.

i’ll refer to them as femmes or fembots when you call the male characters mascs or mascbots in the same breath. now that sounds silly, doesn’t it?

i’ll refer to them as femmes or fembots when you call the male characters mascs or mascbots in the same breath. now that sounds silly, doesn’t it?

"Robot men and femmes"... The women word is right there... Robot women even sounds better than what ever hell that is.

i’m assuming you mean “they” as writers for canon transformers media and like. i do not have the time to get into the bullshit of how a lot of the misogyny the transformers fandom perpetuates COMES from canon. authors like simon furman hate women so so deeply their work is infused with it, and for a while that work was canon. just because it was officially published doesn’t mean it has to be respected. and it isn’t respected. by like anyone. it was retconned. i understand what you’re trying to say, but your “now now” tone is not appreciated. male writer have and continue to try to justify female transformers as an “other” so this “well sometimes writers use it” doesn’t fly with me

i’ll refer to them as femmes or fembots when you call the male characters mascs or mascbots in the same breath. now that sounds silly, doesn’t it?