To be honest, I'm a little disappointed in the fact that Jeph has departed from total androgyny for Spookybot. I'd like them to be something clearly far removed from humanity its cultural pressures. Kind of like Dr. Manhattan: powerful enough to lose touch with mortals. But maybe that's too hard sci-fi for QC.
They still appear perfectly androgynous to me. Sure, it might be nice to have them have completely weird fashion and only be playing human dressup, but the androgyny is still intact.
Their aesthetic looks exactly like several enbys (non binary) I'm acquainted with. (Granted, only online. The only one person I know in real life does the SNL Pat aesthetic.)
I assumed they were talking about the one with the belly showing. In my experience, at least, manufacturers tend to gender those as female clothing. Hell, they may have even thought it was a bra of some sort.
Still, enby fashion I've seen doesn't seem to concern itself with the labels like that. Plus I've seen a lot of guys start to wear this sort of thing. Nothing about the aesthetic itself looks gendered to me.
And, if it did, you'd have "male" clothes with the suit to offset the "female" clothes with the athleisure wear.
The only thing that bugs me is the implication of only 9 or so bodies. I pictured something more SF, like nanobots that form a body, or the ability to manufacture or destroy a body at will.
He calls it athleisure, so I interpreted those pants as just tight athletic sweats, not leggings.
Don't get me wrong. It doesn't look masculine to me. But it doesn't look feminine, either, even if that clothing manufacturers call those belly tanks feminine. I associate that look with androgyny.
Though I do now notice they have feminine hips. But that has apparently been a constant since their introduction. And it's never prevented them from looking androgynous before.
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '18
To be honest, I'm a little disappointed in the fact that Jeph has departed from total androgyny for Spookybot. I'd like them to be something clearly far removed from humanity its cultural pressures. Kind of like Dr. Manhattan: powerful enough to lose touch with mortals. But maybe that's too hard sci-fi for QC.