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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-05-25 08:01 pm

[ SECRET POST #1604 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1604 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[The Fighter]


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03.
[Brief Interviews With Hideous Men]


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[Torchwood]


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[Stargate SG-1]


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[Mass Effect]


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[Whitest Kids U Know]


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[Homestuck]


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[Bones]


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[Great Big Sea]


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11.
[Neverland]


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[Bleach]


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[T.O.P of Big Bang]


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[Darren Criss/Chris Colfer]


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[Cinema Snob and Obscurus Lupa]


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[The Mysterious Cities of Gold]


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[Vocaloid]


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[SPN]


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[The Borgias]


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[Portal 2]


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[World of Warcraft]


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[Glee]


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[Neon Genesis Evangelion and Code Geass]


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[Doctor Who]


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[I Sell the Dead]


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[fanboys]


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[Homestuck]


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[White Collar]


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[SPN]


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[Assassin's Creed]


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[Kuroshitsuji]


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32.
[Cobra Starship]


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[Fight Club]


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[C]


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35.
[Psychoville]



Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 075 secrets from Secret Submission Post #229.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2011-05-26 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I see them as genderless robots as well, but designed to look a certain way that sends off gendered signals. And while you can harp that not everyone fits the gender mold, you forget one thing-- they were not born, they were made. Either by GLaDOS in canon, or Valve in the real world. Meaning there was an expressed design for both of them to look the way they do. And I do think the intention was to spark the part of the brain that identifies that "males look like this, females look like this".

In these robots it doesn't matter, because they have no real gender and are simply made to mimic and exaggerate these human features. That's why P-body is taller, even though human females are typically shorter, because it's the slender female form exaggerated. Atlas is squat because he's a boxy, male, almost neanderthal form, taken to an extreme.

Though, due to the absence of several other things what differentiate a male and female, such as clear human faces, so a lot of folks don't pick up on it, or even ignore it.

I personally, think the signals they give off are very clear, but like you said, a lot of people are different.