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** Similarly with Piccollo and the other Namekians, a [[One-Gender Race]] who reproduce asexually, but are only referred to as male. |
** Similarly with Piccollo and the other Namekians, a [[One-Gender Race]] who reproduce asexually, but are only referred to as male. |
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* In the Marvel Comics run of ''[[The Transformers (Marvel Comics)|The Transformers]]'', all the [[Transformers]] were considered genderless, but were referred to with masculine pronouns... until one story in which the Autobots created [[FemBot|Arcee]], who is considered female and is described with feminine pronouns. |
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** In the above Marvel story, Arcee was actually created, in story, as female to respond to the sexism that [[Straw Feminist|people]] saw in the perception of the Autobots as male. When the same writer (Simon Furman) introduced Arcee into the IDW transformers universe, it was presented as an experiment by [[Mad Scientist|Jhiaxus]] to introduce gender into the formerly genderless species. The default remained 'male', while she got the female referents. [[Unfortunate Implications|She also went somewhat insane.]] |
** In the above Marvel story, Arcee was actually created, in story, as female to respond to the sexism that [[Straw Feminist|people]] saw in the perception of the Autobots as male. When the same writer (Simon Furman) introduced Arcee into the IDW transformers universe, it was presented as an experiment by [[Mad Scientist|Jhiaxus]] to introduce gender into the formerly genderless species. The default remained 'male', while she got the female referents. [[Unfortunate Implications|She also went somewhat insane.]] |
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