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Is topaz from steven universe a male or female?
otto-san:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on May 17, 2017, 08:39:24 PM ---"Technically, there are no female Gems! There are only Gems!"
Then why do they call each other her
tf
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because that's just how gems call each other by pronoun. i don't think it needs to be any deeper than that. if they were a real alien race they probably wouldn't speak english and they'd have their own verbal language for everything, but that'd be stupid in a show where a significant portion of screen time is devoted to dialogue between beings of that race. there was a tweet i think from matt burnett answering a question of why gems speak english that was basically "the same reason they speak chinese in the chinese release of the show," but i couldn't find it from a quick google search so i gave up
--- Quote from: Poliwhirl on May 17, 2017, 08:43:32 PM ---imagine you're an alien and, because you look like a female, humans assume you are a female and call you "her"
now imagine these humans are who you learn english from. they probably haven't put too much thought into questioning why everyone refers to them as "her"
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gems on homeworld speak english, so i don't think this is a viable canon explanation, tho i don't think there is one anyways lol
Nonnel:
they look like girls so they're addressed as girls, but in reality their species doesn't have different lovees
yes?
King Tøny:
Someone told me that a made up alien pronoun would have made everything confusing.
But there is over 20 real gender neutral pronouns starting from A and ending to Zy.
Daswiruch:
this is literally just a topic for tony to "vent" about his hatred for social justice warriors disguised as a steven universe topic
Poliwhirl:
--- Quote from: otto-san on May 17, 2017, 08:47:28 PM ---gems on homeworld speak english, so i don't think this is a viable canon explanation, tho i don't think there is one anyways lol
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yeah fair enough, though i feel like them speaking english is moreso just for viewer convenience