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What is Bubbles' sexual orientation?
SpanielBear:
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--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 19 May 2018, 13:19 ---Speaking of terms of referral. Bubbles prefers she/her, and it would be rude to refer to her in any other way. My sense is that AIs prefer "Ai" in the QC-verse. Is 'robot' considered a slur there?
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All of these terms are at all times descriptive, not prescriptive.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3736 <-- You really think Faye would refer to Bubbles with a slur?
It may be that QC AI adopt human gender identities/pronouns solely for the purpose of socialization and to fit in better with the human society in which they function, like RPG gamers adopting classes that mean no more to them than to flavour their interactions as fighters, magic-users, and theives.
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Their gender identity does seem to be fairly meaningful to them:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=339
Also:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=347
This is pre-singularity when AI's were owned, not free sentients. Since then one can assume they have control over their own switch, but it is still meaningful either way.
Also, consider the emotional attachment and meaning Bubble's found in her armour. If physical form meant nothing more than a D&D class, her decision to go without it would have been nowhere near as meaningful. At the same time, it has been shown from Momo to Winslow that an AI is not bound to the form they were first installed in, and can be transferred if desired. All of this suggests its not just about socialising, but also the preference and choice of the AI in question. For example Winslow:
"Humanoid please. And I think I'm a boy."
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3540
sitnspin:
Mad Cat, we've seen repeated evidence that AI gender identity is not directly tied to their current chassis. Station, for example, identifies as male and he's a space station. Pintsize identifies as male and his chassis doesn't have any gender identifying markers. Evidence all points to their gender identity being part of their code.
Mad Cat:
--- Quote from: SpanielBear on 19 May 2018, 14:09 ---
Their gender identity does seem to be fairly meaningful to them:
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This is pre-singularity when AI's were owned, not free sentients. Since then one can assume they have control over their own switch, but it is still meaningful either way.
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Have we seen a religious attachment to their human gender construct since the triple digit strips?
--- Quote from: SpanielBear on 19 May 2018, 14:09 ---Also, consider the emotional attachment and meaning Bubble's found in her armour. If physical form meant nothing more than a D&D class, her decision to go without it would have been nowhere near as meaningful. At the same time, it has been shown from Momo to Winslow that an AI is not bound to the form they were first installed in, and can be transferred if desired. All of this suggests its not just about socialising, but also the preference and choice of the AI in question. For example Winslow:
"Humanoid please. And I think I'm a boy."
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3540
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My description above was of a human gender construct, i.e. he/him/his vs. she/her/hers being a matter of convenience, an RPG character class, not physical things like a combat medic's armour. That would be part of Bubbles' embodied form and so form part of her AI gender construct. Nowhere did I claim AI couldn't switch embodiments. Clearly, we've seen May start out… however May started out, try to buy a fighter jet to jump into, get disembodied and sent to robot jail, and get reembodied in a parole-grade humanoid chassis.
Winslow saying "I think I'm a boy" is hardly said with the kind of conviction of someone who's human gender construct forms huge part of his personality, but rather someone trying to continue to fit in to human society. To see a depiction of an AI having a true and proper identity crisis over their human gender construct, see "O Human Star", http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-6-page-60/
snufflebottoms:
--- Quote from: Spider on 18 May 2018, 21:21 ---Basically I can't really say one way or another if Faye is butch or not because that's already hard to judge in the first place, but it's basically near impossible to make that sort of call with someone who has been straight up until now. I will certainty agree with Dora that the haircut she got at the end of #3136 was pretty stereotypical butch looking tho
As for Dora being more feminine, I'm not really sure. Her hair has gotten longer at least, but she hasn't been the focus of any strips in a while.
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Seeing that makes me miss Faye's bob. When she wears her hair like that, she looks pretty. I wish she'd get that hair back. We have lots of main character females with short hair that pull it off imo better. Hannelore comes to mind as well as Tai. I am glad to see Dora with long hair again as well. It's just a better design for that character. Again, IMO.
Spider:
I don't know, I personally think she looks prettier with her current hair style. But I may be a bit baised since my hair is rather similar.
Mad Cat I don't really have much thoughts on your whole analysis but please be aware of your use of the words "transgendered" and "transgenderism" as those are inaccurate.
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