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What is Bubbles' sexual orientation?
Is it cold in here?:
--- 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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Civil rights activist Momo introduced herself to Sam as "I am a robot". There may be others who consider it a slur but Momo is presumably sensitive about such thing.
Undrneath:
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 19 May 2018, 20:04 ---
--- 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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May is the only AI that I can recall expressing negativity to being called a "robot". Many of the other AIs have used that term in reference even to themselves.
And speaking of May...
--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 19 May 2018, 17:19 ---...it is appropriate to refer to May as transgendered...
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May has never been presented as anything but female. We know that she wanted to (and still wants to) be a fighter jet, but she has never given any indication that she has ever not been female. So there is no evidence that she is transgender.
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She also has said she likes being a blue robot chick
Mad Cat:
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 19 May 2018, 20:31 ---She also has said she likes being a blue robot chick
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*sigh* AI gender is not human gender. Human gender is not AI gender. An AI can have a human gender if it feels it should, but doesn't have to. May has a human gender and it's feminine. Great. I'm happy for her and for all of you who see that. But she also has an AI gender, which is FIGHTER JET, which she is not allowed to be. THIS is the concept of gender, say it with me once, please, "AI GENDER", that makes May transgendered in the AI sense. Nowhere have I said anything about May's human gender construct one way or the other. When you have not fully read my original post in this thread, and I say that May is transgendered, it does not mean what you think it means in terms of human gender.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: PhoneWytch on 19 May 2018, 19:29 ---Can we just agree to disagree? I worry that tempers are flaring.
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Global Moderator Comment Me too, and it's my job to worry. This is a wonderful discussion, one of the best I have seen here, and I encourage everyone to follow the Wikipedia rule of "assume good faith".
Being a cis guy means I have to listen closely and there do seem to be some honest and cromulent differences among trans* people about the importance of grammar. To some it has deep meaning. Others snort with derision at the idea of devoting time and effort on such things.
I personally use "transgender" so both camps can feel welcome around me.
Undrneath:
--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 19 May 2018, 20:42 ---
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 19 May 2018, 20:31 ---She also has said she likes being a blue robot chick
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*sigh* AI gender is not human gender. Human gender is not AI gender. An AI can have a human gender if it feels it should, but doesn't have to. May has a human gender and it's feminine. Great. I'm happy for her and for all of you who see that. But she also has an AI gender, which is FIGHTER JET, which she is not allowed to be. THIS is the concept of gender, say it with me once, please, "AI GENDER", that makes May transgendered in the AI sense. Nowhere have I said anything about May's human gender construct one way or the other. When you have not fully read my original post in this thread, and I say that May is transgendered, it does not mean what you think it means in terms of human gender.
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I was actually responding to the statement of "robot" being a slur but on the other train of thought I would be open to supporting May as trans if she identifies herself that way, anyone else is just giving opinion.
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