Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26808654-20150315084726/@comment-28584561-20150315104626

Ok, some points to clear up.


 * Gems are not female.

They only assume the form of a female (from our point of view) as Gems have practically been around longer than humans.


 * Gems are sexless.

Yes, they are. In a sense that "sex" refers to being biologically female or male.


 * Gems are whatever you think/want them to be.

Because they are sexless, humans tend to label them with a gender due to their looks and because they don't care (the Gems, I mean). If you see a Gem that looks female, then call her a female even if they aren't, they won't heed any mind to it and you can call them something without degrading their existence, and so on.<


 * Gems are just gems.

And humans are just humans.


 * Gems are dinosaurs.

Who knows how long they've been around. They're probably even older than dinosaurs.


 * Gems lack reproductive parts since they're sexless.

Yup, that's how being sexless works.


 * Rose got pregnant.<

If you've bothered to dig around more, you'd find out Rose's case was special in the sense that an inorganic organism reproduced with an organic one. And "pregnant" will just be putting it bluntly. For all we know Rose could've just formed a chamber inside her, that isn't necessarily a uterus. Just a chamber in which Steven grew in.


 * Gems have stated themselves to be female.

Where exactly? (aside from the pronouns)


 * Gems are whatever you think they are.

Look seven statements up.


 * Gems do not perceive romance the way we do.

How do you know? Humans aren't exactly consistent with what they percieve as romance or love.


 * Ruby and Sapphire are in love.

What is romance exactly? If romance is something that elicits strong attraction to one another, then yes Ruby and Sapphire are in love. Which is blatantly clear.


 * A gem is going to die.

Maybe not this season. ..


 * Gems can't die.

Immortality isn't immunity to everything, it's immunity to time and aging. They can't die of natural causes.


 * No one died.

This season. ..


 * Pearl was killed.

Are you saying the Pearl that we've been seeing up until this point from StSF is a ghost? Pearl was never killed, killing someone is permanently making them cease to function in everypart of their body. Pearl was just forced to go back to her gem, her gem was still fully functioning.


 * There's a fifty/fifty chance of them associating with one particular pronoun. Literally every gem shown (save for Ruby) was called a "her."

Are you even trying to find answers? Rebecca has stated that yes they have 50/50 chance of associating with either pronoun, they associate themselves with female because it is convenient (because they look female) as it is arbitrary (they really don't care).

The creators or "God" aren't really lying, inconsistent, or just plain confused; this is just what happens when you have open-ended characters. But I'm not saying they don't have any faults, it's just that this madness is also because people are different in varying degrees. Give a group of people an open-ended character and you're sure they'll percieve it the way they want to see it.

The boon of having open-ended characters is that people will be much more relatable to them, they can connect with them easily because they are what they want them to see. The bane of it all, is that people are different no matter how you look at it and they will fight for what they believe in.