Okay, I've been in fandom 84 24 years, but some of y'all anons still have me trippin' out.
First - I am begging some of y'all to check yourself before you wreck yourself. Please for the love of Primus look up the terms you are using. Yes, first actual confession here - the anon that said Megatron canonically groomed Orion Pax still lives rent free in my head.
And that ties into point two - "Carrier" is a common noun, not an indicator of bigotry. Confession number two, I don't like the word either! I've been pregnant twice, and besides my joking about the word invoking images of the USS Kitty Hawk more than a pregnant Ratchet, the idea of being called a "Carrier" for being the one to give birth actually does squick me out a little.
But that's the key word there - "squick." It's personal to me, not an indication of someone else's moral depravity or whatever.
We can and should discuss how misogyny and other types of bigotry show up in Transformers media and fan works, but I can guarantee that singular words (aside, of course, from slurs) generally have little to no bearing on these conversations. Heck, adding in a gender spectrum or including mechpreg also doesn't automatically result in misogyny, nor does the exclusion of those concepts. (Top/bottom discourse, character designs of male vs female Transformers, etc.)
Third, and to end on a less serious note, I am unreasonably delighted by the slight under-bite/lantern jaw Dan Mora gives to Thundercracker in the Skybound comics. I actually like how the artists on those books also managed to use design to differentiate Skywarp and Starscream too, but Thundercracker's lil bulldog jaw makes me so happy. They gave him his lil boomies and the Autobrand too, and that dang underbite is the reason I even started reading those comics.
