Thread:ThaChompyLeader/@comment-4369608-20161206000150

I apologize for any mistakes I have made regarding information about the show, as I have limited knowledge about it outside of what I've read here.

If the gems are sexless and have no concept of a binary gender system, then what would possibly drive them to desire a very clearly binary gender/female apperance?

The only reason why there is a binary gender/sex system (on Earth) is because it is needed for reproduction. From a logical perspective, we along with all other living things are here to keep the population going. The species is meant to survive, and survival means making more of yourself. Nature has devised a way to carry that about with a cool thing called genitals, which obviously are different from male or female, so I've no need to explain what everybody on here already knows.

So, with that being said, the gems don't reproduce. They've long since predated human civilization up until they tried to conquer it. In addition, they're basically rocks (magical rocks, if you will, but rocks nonetheless) - rocks don't have reproductive organs, obviously. While canon appears to say that the gems indeed have no concept of a binary gender system, that statement is void because the gems clearly refer to each other as females. If they really didn't know about male or female, they wouldn't be calling each other very distinctly male or female pronouns and titles. Where did they possibly get the idea of male and female from? Earth? (Which would be understandable, but I've seen nothing on that yet.) If they've no need to reproduce, then surely there would be no reason at all to even bother with a gender identity, because there's no reproductive process that requires a male and female, other than maybe for cosmetics and ease for humans to understand or comprehend. (I still don't really get why they all default to female/feminine, though...kind of heavy-handed, don't you think?)

By this reasoning it would make much more sense for gems to simply not take on a particular gender. You might be thinking, "Well, what if they need to use pronouns for each other? How's that gonna work?" Simple: they don't. Their culture would just be different from our own in that sense. There's no need for gendered pronouns for genderless, holographic rocks. Their culture, as this wiki states, is very different from human culture, so why is this one concept of gender identity exactly the same, where it doesn't even fit? Maybe the Gem culture just wouldn't have (in this hypothetical thought) pronouns in their language, or maybe just one "neutral" pronoun for everybody.

The only other reason I could possibly see for the Gems taking on gendered appearances is for the sake of human comprehension and ease for us to refer to them, though it still feels odd that all of them are female (except for Steven, who is half-gem, but I'm not really counting him). That's not really realistic, is it? Plus, rocks don't have hormones or anything of the sort to make them act more masculine or more feminine (though they are magical beings, and the extent to that magic is probably more for interpretation) - all the more reason to not even bother with it, because it's a human concept that just doesn't fit in Gem "biology" or culture.

Moreover, with all this being said, why do the Gems experience romantic attraction, when reproduction is not a function of their species? Whether or not it's heterosexual (gem/human, more than likely) or homosexual, it just doesn't feel necessary when that's not how they further the population. You wouldn't be able to go any further than a romantic relationship if it's gem on gem. I don't actually know whether canon Gem culture is alright with romantic relationships with gems, but regardless, the fact that it's there feels really unrealistic.

TL;DR It feels like the creator(s) of the show tried to make a platform within the show to support LGBT pairings when the platform itself is logically flawed. If you're going to have something like that, at least make it make sense. If I've missed something here, please, feel free to point it out. I'm here to learn. 