Men Are Generic, Women Are Special: Difference between revisions

* Cell in [[Dragon Ball]] technically has no gender, and is only referenced in the English manga as an "it", in the anime however, Cell has a male voice and is only called a "he". Though to be fair, the cells that make up its body are pretty much all male.

** Similarly with Piccollo and the other Namekians, a [[One-Gender Race]] who reproduce asexually, but are only referred to as male.

 

== [[Comics]] ==

* In ''[[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.

** 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.]]

 

== [[Film]] ==