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...I kind of want to award this story a special Fail Prize? Because I enjoy the characters and I am going to keep reading, but I cannot ever rec it?
SOMEHOW she managed to make SPARK-SEX between two functionally-genderless-but-identified-as-masculine ALIEN ROBOTS really, jarringly full of het stereotypes/cliches! Like, there is missionary position + one partner penetrates and is dominant while the other receives and is submissive* + PREGNANCY FOR THE RECEIVING PARTNER. Also, so far one out of two pregnant robots has a SITCOM-LEVEL STEREOTYPICAL PREGNANCY**, even though he is a robot and HAS NO HORMONES.
(Also, I am totally onboard with "pregnant doesn't mean invalid", but you know what? Pregnant does mean that "it's dangerous terrain and there's a risk of radiation sickness, please stay here" is an AWESOME IDEA, not your husband OPPRESSING YOU.)
* There is seriously, in every encounter I've read, a moment of "dominant partner worries about crushing the smaller/more delicate mech beneath him" and I am just like, THEN WHY IS HE NOT ON TOP. Why are they even lying down to bang chests, wouldn't straddling make more sense?
** FOR SRS, THERE ARE INTERIOR DECORATING FITS, AND MOOD SWINGS, AND THE KNOCKED UP ROBOT ACCIDENTALLY AND "HILARIOUSLY" BREAKS HIS PARTNER'S ARM THROWING HIM OUT, AND, JUST, MANY NOES.
SOMEHOW she managed to make SPARK-SEX between two functionally-genderless-but-identified-as-masculine ALIEN ROBOTS really, jarringly full of het stereotypes/cliches! Like, there is missionary position + one partner penetrates and is dominant while the other receives and is submissive* + PREGNANCY FOR THE RECEIVING PARTNER. Also, so far one out of two pregnant robots has a SITCOM-LEVEL STEREOTYPICAL PREGNANCY**, even though he is a robot and HAS NO HORMONES.
(Also, I am totally onboard with "pregnant doesn't mean invalid", but you know what? Pregnant does mean that "it's dangerous terrain and there's a risk of radiation sickness, please stay here" is an AWESOME IDEA, not your husband OPPRESSING YOU.)
* There is seriously, in every encounter I've read, a moment of "dominant partner worries about crushing the smaller/more delicate mech beneath him" and I am just like, THEN WHY IS HE NOT ON TOP. Why are they even lying down to bang chests, wouldn't straddling make more sense?
** FOR SRS, THERE ARE INTERIOR DECORATING FITS, AND MOOD SWINGS, AND THE KNOCKED UP ROBOT ACCIDENTALLY AND "HILARIOUSLY" BREAKS HIS PARTNER'S ARM THROWING HIM OUT, AND, JUST, MANY NOES.