Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3965346-20150620162619/@comment-26472528-20150623223436

Nearhza wrote: Nothing wrong will all female-identifying gems, nothing wrong with wanting some male-identifying gems like I do. I want them, know it's not gonna happen, but let's not say that wanting male-identifying gems is following a patriarchal trend of sexism cuz its not. Depends on how it's done.

Wanting a male-identifying gem isn't a problem. It could work if the gem had the default female humanoid appearance but preferred to use a male humanoid appearance instead... sort of like a transgender gem, if that makes sense. But that gem would have to had seen male humanoids, which presumably don't exist on Homeworld.

It could hypothetically become a problem if newly introduced male gems took over most of the spotlight in the show. I've seen lots of cartoons with a nearly equal number of male and female characters, yet a lot of them had the problem of the execs assuming boys like cartoons more than girls and thus giving the guy characters more development and spotlight.

I'm really not worried about this with Steven Universe though, as there would have to be a LOT of new gems that happen to be male, and I don't honestly don't think we'll get a male gem anyway.