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Steampunk Tahu: And this is why genderlocking is good.
In all seriousness, I really don’t see the point of this topic. Let’s dissect it a little bit. You are defending genderlocking from the people who want to have uncannon characters in their fan-fictions. The question is, do we really need somebody to tell us that we can brake the rules in our stories?
It’s common logic that as soon as it is our story, we can do whatever we want to him. You are treating genderlocking like a serious issue, one that many people are against it, but I’ve never heard one person to be against it. Sure, the newcomers that just realised that all the blue guys are girls and all of the other guys are male might have some question marks, but that is as far as it goes. I remember being a new Bionicle fan and finding this side of the worldbuilding actually interesting and -dare I say- logical. I mean… If the big dude with powers that represents all of the blue guys is a girl, a child could easily imagine that all of the blue guys are girls. If the other big guys with powers are boys, a child could easily imagine that all of the other small guys are boys.
If I come as rude, then I am sorry. It really is not my intent to be like that. However, I just feel like I need to address the fact that the ones that “live with the hate for genderlocking” are not real. And if they are, they are just some small minority that is barely vocal.
This topic really popped out of the blue for me.
But actually, I was reading some old posts of people complainig about the genderlock, and I realized that I had never shared my point of view, so I decised to articulate a short essay offering a defence for it. And the second part was mostly for the people that complain about people not using a genderlock in their story. And trust me, most people I’ve talked to about this are really against it, I mean really.
@Toa_Radrix I mention them, but they also happen to be predominatly blue in their color scheme.
Most of it was on other bionicle sites and a Bionicle fan discord, but as far as here to a quick stroll through this topic. The Cons of Bionicle - #50 by Brikkyy13
The link that you gave me actually leads to a Gali Mistika looks like a man discussion.
OK, I trust you, tho this doesn’t change my opinion that this is a small and not too vocal minority.
I was meaning the topic as a whole, and I wasn’t aware I could link to specific parts of a topic. This is the start of the topic as a whole. The Cons of Bionicle
Half the topics on the boards are unnecessary, like seriously, most are pointless. Not to mention, there is not a genderlocking dedicated topic anywhere on the boards as far as I’m aware. If the mods think that this topic could serve as such, I’d be happy to edit the original post. I was simply giving my opinion. Also I said classically, and while I could go in circles about how biology supports certain natural traits in men and women that are being attacked as “sexist”, I won’t because that would get us nowhere. /s
Even if you want to adhere to canon, its been stated that Matoran can be made with the opposite gender, and that it’s possible some have been. This was pretty much Greg’s way of saying “sure, you can have characters with the other gender in your own stories.”
Actually how do genders in Bionicle even work? Cause they don’t have reproductive organs like we do, and matoran are made in a factory in metru Nui, is it like just a mental thing or something?
Well, if I rember how he worded it, it can happen, but the Turaga don’t know how. And on top of that the “Matoran Machine” wasn’t around in the MU due to thw fact that every MU inhabitant was created by the Great Beings.
@yolo360nosescope I believe its a traits thing, with the elements requiring more control benefiting from classical femenin traits (Orde is an example, with him becoming so violent with his power that they changed his element to female so that the Ce-Matoran would be calmer).
We know the Glatorian had Gender, Greg has confirmed the GBs were just intelligent Glatorian, we also know that the GBs saw females as more level headed and calm, as when they created Orde it showed them that giving that kind of power to a male is potetially dangerous. This is what we know from canon. Here is a direct quote from Biosector01,
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The Great Beings believed females to be gentler than males. This influenced their experiments twice, first when they chose a female Vorox to become the Element Lord of Sand, and again when they made all Matoran, Toa, and Turaga of Psionics female after Toa Orde’s aggression caused problems. The efficacy of these choices is unknown, although the Sand Tribe fought in the Core War the same as the others.[/quote]
This topic is actually a lot bigger on some other sites, for example there was a biggish debate on BZpower about genderlocking and the negative aspects of it. On the boards it’s not seen as big of a topic, but elsewhere I’ve seen it be bigger.