Protecter of Earth is Female?!

[Heir of the Chronicler]

I'm 100% in favor of any character being female (or male... ala Berix, Tarix, Surge, and the Protector of Water.)

 

- Heir

[Petewa]

 

Yes! Now I can ship Onua/Korgot!

 

 

Now just to spite you I will ship Onua with every Protector except Korgot.

May I assume that to include the baby protector?

[Rahkshi Lalonde]

I like it as a trend. It seems fitting for graceful, flowing, beautiful water to be a female element.

 

Well the problem is, with the gendered tribes women could only be graceful, beautiful, serene, etc.

 

and as we all know, not all women are the same, just like men, (or all those other arrangements of such)

 

a woman can be brash or hot-headed (Ta) stoic and collected (Ko) indistrius and hard-working (Onu) carefree and joyful (Le) or creative and hardy (Po)

 

and while those are just the tribe archetypes, and not every matoran fits them, it's pretty easy to see where "all women are like gentle, calm water" can end up harming someone's perception of women. :t

[believe victims]

 

 

Yes! Now I can ship Onua/Korgot!

 

Now just to spite you I will ship Onua with every Protector except Korgot.

May I assume that to include the baby protector?

 

 

The baby is a villager, not a Protector. The Protectors are specifically the leaders.

[Sweet Muffin]

I think Korgot being female is pretty awesome! As a cis-female, I'm glad to see how TLG is moving towards women equality. 

[Ballom Nom Nom]

 

I like it as a trend. It seems fitting for graceful, flowing, beautiful water to be a female element.

 

Well the problem is, with the gendered tribes women could only be graceful, beautiful, serene, etc.

 

and as we all know, not all women are the same, just like men, (or all those other arrangements of such)

 

a woman can be brash or hot-headed (Ta) stoic and collected (Ko) indistrius and hard-working (Onu) carefree and joyful (Le) or creative and hardy (Po)

 

and while those are just the tribe archetypes, and not every matoran fits them, it's pretty easy to see where "all women are like gentle, calm water" can end up harming someone's perception of women. :t

 

I'm not sure why people have the idea that water must be calm and gentle. What about a hurricane, a tsunami, or a flood? Water at its most dangerous seems to me to be far more threatening (and energetic) than some of the other elements.

 

Of course, I am in favor of female characters of all elements, but I wanted to point this out because I feel it's frequently overlooked.

 

~B~

[Rahkshi Lalonde]

I'm not sure why people have the idea that water must be calm and gentle. What about a hurricane, a tsunami, or a flood? Water at its most dangerous seems to me to be far more threatening (and energetic) than some of the other elements.

Of course, I am in favor of female characters of all elements, but I wanted to point this out because I feel it's frequently overlooked.

 

~B~

 

Ah yeah, i see what you mean, i was simply referring to both what the poster i quoted said and what LEGO decided was the base personality trait for Ga-Matoran, which was peaceful, gentle-minded fisherfolk. o: