It's a sociocultural trap!

[seiberwing]

Am I the only one who gets pissed off at this sort of thing? Putting aside the fact that The Gay is not allowed in the TF:Mosaic project (with, apparently, exceptions made for humor), I find it rather insulting to continually insinuate that the sudden discovery that the object of your lusts is actually a male is horrifying. Double points if they

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[seikk]

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I was happy to see Stunticons, personally (and with animated Constructicons on the same page? Awesome!) I didn't actually think of the 'joke' part of it until I started reading the comments. (And then came back and read this.)

I was thinking that the Constructis were surprised that the cars actually transformed...d'oh -_-;;;

Though, yeah, now that I get the real 'joke'...

That kinda sucks.

[seiberwing]

Even the title--"A Nasty Surprise"--indicates that the gender confusion is supposed to be disturbing and disgusting. Someone in the comments seems to agree with me, but it's only the one guy/girl.

[seiberwing]

The Bluestreak/Silverstreak joke was good because it addressed a personal issue for the character while still adding in humor (see the Insecticomics for other good uses of this idea). True, the Constructicons are the poster boys for catcallers, but if one looks closely they have a tendency to catcall human vehicles. It's the equivalent of hitting on an anatomy model.

Like, say, Mix catcalls a 'babe', Scrapper pauses to question how exactly he knows it's a 'babe' at all - could be anybody. Cue a bit of awkwardness, strange imaginings of who the car could be, maybe a "Wanna still go after them?" "No. >>;" or something of the sort.

Now see, I like this idea. It keeps the Constructicons in their usual 'straight horny male' persona, but makes it less about being horrified at the gay and more about being unsure exactly what they're chasing. Again, playing off a canon and personal issue rather than inserting human bias and fears.

And yeah, immaturity. The fact that it got past the Mosaic censors is depressing.

[raisedbymoogles]

Sadly, the skeevy parts of human nature sometimes infiltrate the giant robots.

[seiberwing]

Go look under the 'fandom: transformers" tag on Fandom Wank. This "sometimes" happens too much for my tastes.

[raisedbymoogles]

Male-dominated fandom. I'm too unsurprised to work up much rage.

[seiberwing]

I'm in an abnormally bad mood today, the fan rage is mostly a side effect.

It's not just the homophobia, the misogyny and female-objectification gets a turn in there too. I think Furman's Arcee needs to go to their houses and kick them until they learn a bit of respect.

[dogbite12]

And this is why I stay away from the IDW forum.

[seiberwing]

Yes, well, some of us don't have the magical ability to "choose" whether or not we find something offensive.