Waverod's Corner Table

 "Mech or femme?" "Both." "I'm not sure how to process that." "Isn't that your problem?" Waverod sighed internally. "Look. We aren't organics. We don't need waste disposal facilities at all, let alone ones needlessly segregated by gender. Given the ratio of mechs to femmes among Cybertronians, same-gender relationships are not only accepted, they're common. This isn't a biological information processing research lab. Why does it even matter?" "We need this information for our basic demographic files." "But why? It's just information processing. In the end, the data we start with and the conclusions we come to are what matter. The data, and the nature of the subject under consideration, provide far tighter constraints on our thinking than whichever Prime we think like." "But I need to put something in your file. Without a complete file you can't access this data center." ...

 "Are you a mech or a femme?" Waverod hated that question for several reasons. What did it even matter? There was no significant aspect of Cybertronian culture that hinged on the difference. It's just a different way to process information; it rarely mattered in terms of biology, let alone functions, skills, or allegiance. "Are you a mech or a femme?" These terms weren't used in the most ancient datatracks. Before contact with organic planets, there weren't really even words for the concepts. The closest you could come was something like "One who processes information in the minority way" for femme, and "One who processes information in the majority way" for mech. Even those phrases were only used incidentally, when needed to explain how someone came to a conclusion. The pre-contact Covenant of Primus uses the first of these phrases maybe five times (four times referring to Solus Prime), and the latter once. "Are you a mech or a ...