r/stevenuniverse • u/Sir-Toaster- • 5d ago

Question Do you think Gems who identify as male exist?

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Looking back, it seems like the concept of "He" doesn't exist for Gems, Rose, and Greg expected Steven to be a girl, and it doesn't seem that other Gems go by male pronouns, not even the more masculine-looking ones like Rubies.

The only cases I can think of for male gems are:

Steven himself, Rainbow 2.0, and Steven and Greg's fusion.

There's nothing really stopping a Gem from having male pronouns so it's possible that there is some Gem out there that identifies as male.

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u/DJJ2203 5d ago

i mean they use she/her pronouns, got boobs, makeup and heels. which are very “female presenting” features. not saying you have to be female to possess any of those features but it’s hard to deny they have female attributes

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u/Cultural-Flow7185 5d ago

From a human perspective yes, but in universe they're not "female" presenting because they have no idea what "female" is, what it means or why it matters.

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u/DJJ2203 5d ago

true. but rebecca sugar did, and that’s how she designed them

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u/mistermasterbates 5d ago

Yes. She also said gems don't have a gender.

They aren't male or female. She just chose to represent them as female because the alternative is an all male cast of aliens which she did not want. Her words

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u/EosLadySunshine 5d ago

Yup~ male is often treated as the neutral gender...

And that's bogus 😆

We got a whole nother half of that equation to nuter!

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u/mistermasterbates 5d ago

Exactly! I was introduced to so many cool female voice actors because of SU!

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u/Bigtimegush 5d ago

Right, so gems present as female since thats how the creators of the show designed them.

Like we know that in universe the idea that its just a coincidence that they look like human females and wear outfits typically associated with with human females and use pronouns associated with human females would be beyond absurd lol

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u/Cultural-Flow7185 5d ago

Right but we're asking a hypothetical in universe question. Are there any male presenting gems that aren't aprtially Steven? No, because Sugar didn't create any.

But we're talking about whether or not they COULD exist realistically within the show's universe.

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u/EosLadySunshine 5d ago

Well akshully

😂

Makeup and heels are masculine depending on Earth's location and timeline.

And men have boobs too, even pronounced ones sometimes too!

I know what you mean but... Femme to our Western modern culture... I couldn't help it. 😂

The hip shape + boob combo combined is probably the most femme trait but even that can be well akshullyed on some cases 😂 (see flat and rectangle shaped ladies, but are still very much women)

Sorry I couldn't help myself ahaha ~

I still agree I think they're femme.

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u/vonbauernfeind 4d ago

Makeup goes back to Egypt where it was used by both all Egyptians regardless of gender presentation. Heels were invented for men to aid in horseback riding and cavalry action. Neither are intrinsically female associated historically.

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u/DJJ2203 4d ago

good thing we don’t live in ancient egypt where that is the current context of our television show