2010-06-12

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2010-06-12 08:04 am
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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.