I just came from seeing Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen.
Delighted to finally see some ladybots in the films, but I was a bit bummed that Arcee didn't get more screen time.
This li'l snippet, compliments of Wikipedia, explains, if not excuses, why:
"Arcee was initially meant to appear in the 2007 film... but was ultimately dropped from it due to concerns of her being too small compared to the other bots, and the fact that the writers felt there was not enough time to explain her "gender" (Transformers comic continuity stated that they don't have sexes, but she was introduced in issue #234 of the U.K. Marvel series to appease feminists - who hated her because she was pink) . Whether to explain robotic gender or not was something the writers were unsure about... the issue eventually remaining unaddressed in the finished movie"
Pussies.
To help even the cosmic scales of robo-misogyny, I also present Arcee's white-trash not quite kissing Gundam cousin, Lacee.
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