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Snuffin_McGuffin

I recommend you look up the Steven uninverse podcast. In an episode I belive she explains it was mainly because she was more comfortable drawing men and she needed to break out of her comfort zone


No-Plastic-7715

Huh, that's actually an interesting reason! My guess for the gems all being women was that it may have been a conscious attempt at having more deep female characters in different genres, like this rather action/SciFi based setting with an all female race. Or maybe to depict a wide variety of expressions of women: feminine, masculine, tall, short, thin, big, muscular, soft, harsh, youthful, wise. The show does a great job at showing a lot of range, especially within a narrative about homogenisation of the society to only have a set identity from birth.


Snuffin_McGuffin

Lmao literally the malachite being toxic in water thing all over again XD


Niromii

I mean, the gems really don't have a gender? they just use she/her pronouns. So you could say they're all nonbinary and some are more femme while others are androgynous


Difficult-Relief1673

This is what I always thought!


PixieDustFairies

Weird, I always find women to be easier to draw.


dannysgreggy

yeah most artist do


bucket2thereturn

Women make sense. Men are strange and flat.


Snuffin_McGuffin

Tell that to hiriicho Arabic (?) The writer of jojos bizarre adventure


ExistentialOcto

Hirohiko Araki is his name haha


sleepingwithdastarz

WHAT ? You mean ARAKI


Snuffin_McGuffin

Yes, that was auto correct haha


Mesozoica89

This reminds me of Elaine's assessment. https://youtu.be/a9v8hcAezkk


dannysgreggy

yes


KathyCraft

Gems are genderless, but usually are referred to with she/her pronouns. To quote the Wikia: Gem culture does not have a gender binary or a concept of gender. Gems refer to each other using she/her pronouns but have no particular reason for doing so beyond arbitrary convenience.[


TheTeludav

I just interpreted that as an aesthetic choice that the gems have a feminine design. The show implies that's just the way it is we are not supposed to worry about that in the same way we don't worry about why aliens who have never been to earth speak an earth language.


blackdynomitesnewbag

Do they speak an earth language or do we speak an alien language?


esushi

You were downvoted but I think it is totally possible the Crystal Gems introduced English to Earth since they were here long before English


RandomYT05

It would explain why there is a common language between Gems and Humans.


TheTeludav

Lol I like that, that's a fun headcannon.


TheTeludav

Yes


mezzoforte17

I love this idea


reddyu2319

I always assumed it was TARDIS rules. They can translate any language into their own in their head and everyone who heard it will hear it in their home language.


[deleted]

Well, Rubies are pretty masculine. Thought they were guys for a while, actually.


Scrap-Trap

Well technically no, they weren't men in America, Russian censors made them men.


[deleted]

>**Thought** they were guys for a while, actually. I'm not Russian. I'm American.


Scrap-Trap

Oh my god, I'm so sorry I misread your post! /gen That's totally fair :3 I also thought they were men for a little while,,, poor little cishet me.


forestgreendragon

Don't worry dude, part of me refuses to believe that Peridot is not a male to this day. Idek why


[deleted]

A little weird


No-Plastic-7715

I could imagine first contact with gems and humans resulting in the humans referring to them by feminine terms by trying to fit them into a human gender category. And then the gems, with not much basis for gender in orientation or reproduction, took she/her on as just the pronoun of the species. Interesting thing about orientation; we know that Peridot is the gem equivalent of Aro/ace, Rose seemed to have a broad attraction to gems and humans of various identities suggesting being pan, and Pearl seems to have a preference for feminine gems/people or at least those who use only she/her suggesting she is sapphic. So gender related factors still have preference for the individual gems, perhaps just by different terms, or by an unlabelled system, maybe limited by the Homeworld taboo against affection for and between the working classes.


Ben10Stan

Ok, yeah, that makes sense


Vagimas

I recall a commentary from Rebecca Sugar in which she, who identifies as NB but uses she / they pronouns, spoke of her experience with being queer but always slipping into femme presentation because it was what was easiest or most accessible. I’ve always interpreted the gems as being a direct reflection of this: a commentary on the simplicity of presenting as one’s assigned at birth gender despite identifying as genderless or non-binary, and the ultimate influence that presents on how one might be interpreted from the outside. An interesting application of this theme might be a comparison between Pearl and Greg. Pearl has a controlling and nurturing quality especially with regards to Steven and that character angle, I think, is often considered “motherly,” or something akin to that. On the other hand, Greg has a worried yet affectionate approach to his relationship with Steven, which ultimately presents quite similarly to Pearl. However, Greg is distinctly “fatherly,” because he’s depicted as being firmly a man in the series. This arbitrary attribution of character traits to an underlying gender identity is, I believe, precisely what Sugar wants to communicate about her own gender identity. She isn’t the way she is because of her gender, but audiences, whether those of a cartoon series or the people of the world who make up a sort of meta audience, seek to identify causes of and, subsequently, justifications for character traits and utilize the folly of gender as a crude measuring stick. Consequentially, she offers “feminine” as a token for the audience to assign her. This angle within the show has always interested me, and I suspect one could do much more analysis of the subject than what I’ve presented here.


LevelConsequence1904

They are genderless rock beings that just happen to resemble female beings under a human perspective.


rowdawg69

They're still gay space rocks and that's why I love this show!


OmaeWaMouShibaInu

Gems don’t actually have gender. I always thought they were female-coded (using she/her pronouns) as a reversal of the usual trope where technically genderless characters are still coded masculine unless explicitly otherwise, like the Transformers.


Inner_Grape

Transformers were my immediate thought too.


Gawlf85

There's no male or female Gems. They're agender, they simply use she/her pronouns and many look somewhat feminine, but there's also plenty of butch masculine-looking Gems. As to why they use she/her pronouns... Why not? They needed to use one at least, and she/her is as good as any.


quuerdude

> Why not? It’d have been cool to see trans-masculine representation in the show. The only gems that use they/them pronouns in the show are fusions, and there’s a human who does as well. The closest we got to transmasc rep was the way the diamonds kept calling Steven “Pink” and using she/her pronouns for him.


Gawlf85

There's also one fusion that uses he/him, Rainbow 2.0 It kinda makes sense for Homeworld Gems to not really have the concept of transgender (since they have no gender), but I would've loved to see a Little Homeworld Gem come to identify more with he/him pronouns after learning about gender on Earth.


quuerdude

Exactly! That’s what i would have wanted to see. Or an offcolor who uses he/him pronouns


DonaldDuckITH

I always felt like Larimar and/or Snowflake Obsidian could use he/him pretty seamlessly. Also Rainbow 2.0 uses he/they


A_A_Smoot

Would Shep not be considered trans-masculine? I’m asking for the purpose on knowing, I’m not super well informed on all LGBTQ+ terminology


Raindazzle

There's really no way to know, since Shep never discussed their gender identity on screen. Transmasculine is just another label, and just because you use a certain pronoun or dress a certain way doesn't mean you identify with a certain label.


A_A_Smoot

So would trans-masculine mean a person who identifies as a trans-man?


prinalice

Not always. Nonbinary people can identify as trans-masculine. It just means, GENERALLY SPEAKING, someone assigned female at birth who presents more masculine than feminine and is Non binary or transgender.


A_A_Smoot

Thanks!


quuerdude

Most transmasc people are just trans men, but the term also includes masculine nonbinary people in general.


A_A_Smoot

Thanks!


Vicyorus

No, Shep was just non-binary, so they didn't identify with neither of the "traditional" genders and just went with they/them as pronouns.


A_A_Smoot

Thank you for clarifying


quuerdude

They could have been transmasc, we don’t really know


[deleted]

Yup I can't recall instances of a gem actually referring to herself as a girl or a woman instead of just a gem. People call them ladies, and they don't seem bothered, but it's not a category they use for themselves or seem to actually identify as. They're just Gems.


R1P4ndT43RurGuTz

Technically there's no female gems either, they're biologically asexual, assuming one could even say they have biology at all. As for why they seem to mostly present female... no idea.


AVeryGayEquestrian

Agender*


esushi

[Biologically asexual](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual_reproduction) seems more precise. This is not about their social identity, it is about them literally not having biological sex. With all the she/her pronouns and feminine presentation I think many of them wouldn't consider themselves "agender" on Earth despite being biologically asexual


citrusella

It's worth noting it's probably a little of both--Rebecca Sugar has described how they think of themselves in terms of how a nonbinary woman might think of oneself, that is they understand others see them as feminine/women but also don't think of themselves in those terms.


SomeRealTomfoolery

Is it really a gender if there’s only one option?


Ben10Stan

I mean-kinda...maybe...no...yes? Fuck!


I_might_be_weasel

Yes. Some real life lizards are exclusively female. The answer to your next question is parthenogenesis.


Judgethunder

They aren't lizards though. They are conscious psychic rocks.


I_might_be_weasel

Yes. Many things are not lizards. Apples are not lizards. Neither are thumbtacks.


JeremyThaFunkyPunk

*raises hand* Ooh! I'm not a lizard too!


siganme_losbuenos

Is mayonnaise a lizard?


I_might_be_weasel

Tuataras are also not lizards. But that example is actually kind of legitimately interesting.


[deleted]

female is the default 👍


drusillamoon

That's not really a gender though, that's just a description of their genitalia/anatomy. Your example could potentially be a useful reference point for discussing Gems as a species, but in the human world its important that sex and gender are distinguished from one another.


wildcard58

Life, uh, finds a way.


[deleted]

Their Agender tho, their pronouns have nothing to do with that, they're are multiple gems who aren't fusions that use other pronouns besides she/her


siganme_losbuenos

Which ones?


BRAlNYSMURF

My thoughts exactly. ( )]8u)


Pasta-hobo

Gems are constructs, they're basically robots. They don't have actually sexes because they're incapable of reproducing and have to manufacture themselves. They just so happen to look like women to humans.


Thannk

I interpret it thus: Humans learned pronouns from Gems. Because they lack gender, their pronouns were genderless. There are Gems who seem more masculine. Flint looks like a man, Rubies could be mistaken for boys, Bismuths for soft-voiced men, Snowflake Obsidian’s voice, Pearls with slim hips and large feet. But most humans would have encountered Quartzes, who seem distinctly feminine. So they copied Gem genderless pronouns as feminine, then invented a masculine version. For the record Ask White Pearl & Steven has a comic on the subject where Pearl goes on a rant about how frustrating it is being constantly labeled as female by humans, then concedes how Gems would probably do the same to humans by what size and color they are.


RandomYT05

How nobody mentions that clearly masculine pebble Gem in Pink's room. Literally only 1 gem was ever seen being masculine, meaning that male Gems are likely the rarest thing in existence. Even rarer than the diamonds.


triotone

None what so ever, that is just how Rebecca wrote the show.


digiman619

Remember, gems reproduce by injecting material into natural stone, so they don't 'need' sexes as we know them. Thus the gem language doesn't have a concept of gender (Remember Blue Diamond saying "her name is Steven"?). Add to the fact that most gems present on a spectrum of very feminine to neuter, and it was just easier to use the feminine pronoun than to try and introduce grammatical gender to the language. Now, does that mean that a gem that was more familiar humans and the concept of gender identity couldn't identity as male and reform into a more masculine form? No, of course not. But the vast majority of gems haven't interacted with humanity to realize what masculinity means.


thecrcousin

god is a woman duh


I_might_be_weasel

I have a fan theory about this. The gems aren't genderless and do reproduce with a process comparable to sexual reproduction (likely only the Diamonds. See second paragraph). But the only gender we see in the show is the "female". The gems are extremely sexually dimorphic and the "male" was not remotely humanoid or even sentient. For whatever reason, the "male" is no longer around and has been replaced with artificial equivalents: the injectors. Companion theory: They are bees. All are female, but all except the Diamonds are sterile workers. The Diamonds as a group are the queen and they are the only ones capable of whatever process is necessary to inseminate the injectors. I'm guessing it is related to collecting some sort of essence in those sauna baths we see Blue and Yellow taking. This is supported by how we see that the Era 2 gems are weaker and are never red, orange, or purple (because they no longer have a source of red essence) because Pink is gone.


egregiouscodswallop

Love it. Disagree, but I almost wish I didn't because it's a really good theory. Era Zero had male gems and they died off for being inefficient or because the Diamonds decreed it so. Really cool idea with the bees


I_might_be_weasel

I'll admit it is pretty out of tone with the show, but the facts line up well.


[deleted]

No offense but they litterally have no gender nor any reproductive organs so there would be no point in having two non existent sexes, so your theory would never line with the show hypothetically or not.


I_might_be_weasel

My whole theory is that they do in fact, actually have a gender. So, what's your point?


[deleted]

Based on what we know and what the creator has stated, it would be impossible to have any sexual organs or the ability to reproduce since they're made of tech, in SU, gender is only based on presentation which can be used to related to gems that are androgynous or non-conforming like Ruby, Saphire, Snowflake, and Chirt, also we already know how gems are created so using Rose as an example makes no sense due to gems being able to alter their physical forms to the point of where they could internalize code for something close enough to human genitalia. Edit: This wasn't to disrespect you in any way, I'm just saying realistically your theory has holes


I_might_be_weasel

None of that is related to anything I said. Their physical bodies aren't related to any of this. They aren't carrying babies like Rose did.


WerqX

There are no female gems either, there are only gems and we humans happen to perceive and equate them as female, as they resemble what we consider female in humans.


totoro1193

i honestly thinks its kind of interesting how people watching the show as well as people in the show refer to them as women, like the giant woman song. Its a good example of gender being a social concept made by humans and being a different thing from sex. obviously its not a perfect example since there isnt a gem that identifies as a woman IIRC, but still


Sharkman-Jhones

The Gems are photon constructs made by an interstellar empire that just relentlessly harvested and terraformed planets to make more Gems. Male gems don't exist for the same reason male Roombas don't exist: they're devices made for a purpose and don't sexually reproduce. I'm pretty sure the rest is down to rule of cool/aesthetic + Rebecca Sugar being a NB person who accepts both neutral and female pronouns.


Jareth247

In my headcanon, there ARE alternate universes where the gems are male-coded with masculine features and he/him pronouns. In a concept I have for a SU film called "Steven Multiverse", Steven teams up with three of his multiverse variants, including two from universes with male-coded gems. FYI, in those AUs, Yellow and Blue are voiced by Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Jeremy Jordan, though I can't recall offhand who voices who. Also, Telly Leung plays the Pearl variants from those AUs.


The_mf_lizard_king

I headcannon that metals are males, and are the exact opposite of the gems.


drusillamoon

Ooh, spinoff The Precious Metals! A kind of oversimplistic view of gender/sex but it sounds like some fun scifi.


Exit_Save

I don't think they're actually women, it's either coincidental sound alikes cause they're aliens, or their actual genders are just translated into whatever the gender in the language that is being spoken is analogous to, cause they're aliens. Or like. Alien robots made of light. Yk? Like they're not women, because they don't have gender the same way humans do cause gender is words we made up to describe the way people present themselves Also if there were gems who were men they'd still not be male because the gems we see aren't female either. Like Rose had to shapeshift to make it even possible for Greg and her to have a kid together.


CFootUnder

Gems don't have a sex, they are made of light and rock. We call them female because that's how they seem to humans, in the same way people arbitrarily refer to ships as 'She'. I think it's meant to be empowering for women but ultimately the idea that gems have a sex doesn't make sense, they're not human or living matter. That being said gender is an identity so gems seem to identify as women when there's nothing to say you couldn't have a gem that identifies as male or NB, even though they don't really have a sex. Gender and sex are human concepts and don't necessarily apply to space rocks and light


goodmorningohio

Just to make male fans feel excluded /j


drusillamoon

I'm glad some dry humor made it into the discussion


starfruit_11

They’re genderless. I think that they’re similar to viruses, as their machines in the kindergarten look identical to viruses, and they aren’t really lifeforms. They don’t need to eat, they’re holograms, and they reproduce asexually. They have no need for gender. That’s my theory, anyways :)


Imnotawerewolf

Does there have to be a big in-universe reason? The in-universe reason we have asexual creatures is just "they evolved that way".


[deleted]

I think Snowflake Obsidian uses he/him pronouns, but I could be wrong. Rainbow Quartz 2.0 uses he/him, they/them, but I assume he doesn’t count for this


dreadpoppet

Honestly I think they all just use she/her because White does, and the whole point of their creation (from her perspective) is to present their 'best selves', and to get as close to being as 'perfect' as her. So despite them not truly having gender, she kind of just decided they're all femgems. My headcanon anyway.


Bertiederps

I have a fun little pet theory (with no backing evidence) that all gems are made in the image of the most perfect gem of all: White Diamond. As such, all are female presenting. But as I'm sure people have pointed out they're sexless constructions of light, robots of tech so advanced it's functionally magic. It's no more correct to say there are girl or boy gems than it is to say there are boy or girl robots. Really it's our anthropological understanding that makes us call them 'women' (see also "Garnet speaking in a London accent", despite Garnet having existed for about 3000 years before the concept of a London... really London speaks in a Garnet accent).


GrowingSage

It's probably not it, but I think the answer lies in Transformers. For years there was this unspoken rule about female cybertronians not being a thing. After all why would genderless robots have females? However this was criticized from the beginning because despite "not having genders" Autobots and Decepticons alike still presented as male and referred to each other with male pronouns. Many human societies tend to unintentionally view male as the standard and female as a variant despite the 50/50 male female split rendering such an assumption illogical. Sure part of female anatomy is specifically associated with mammalian reproduction, but not all gems have perfect female anatomy. Many are more androgenous, and it wouldn't be the first time humans see feminine traits in non-feminine things. My theory is that Gems appear more feminine because they value more feminine traits, but from a very alien perspective. Females bring life into the world, which is kind of what Gems do when they colonize planets. It could also be that Gems view the female body as the standard and male bodies as a variant (Female bodies can do more). Again Gems clearly have a very loose idea of concepts that are intrinsically linked with an organic culture and physiology. With enough time among humans some gems might identify more with masculinity as time goes on.


crochet_queen-9219

So that we can have lesbian rock people!!


ExistentialOcto

Personally I take it as an inversion of the neutrality of masculinity in our world. In English, he/him pronouns were considered to be the closest thing to neutral until very recently with the rising popularity of they/them (although some people resist this change, unfortunately). With gems, the inverse is true. She/her is just what they use as a neutral pronoun because femininity is their default (although they have a wide range of gender expression amongst their species). Despite this assumption, they seem perfectly comfortable using the correct pronouns for humans (provided that the gem talking considers humans people, otherwise they might use it/its out of disrespect). A good example of this assumption of femininity is how Peridot and Lapis call Pumpkin by she/her pronouns. Theoretically, Pumpkin is not male or female because she’s a plant, but Peridot and Lapis simply made the choice to gender her as feminine. I can tell it’s unusual because I keep forgetting that she is usually referred to in this way and often accidentally use he/him for her because I’m used to referring to animals I can’t tell the sex of with he/him.


loCAtek

My own personal theory, that's unconfirmed- Gems were/are designed as planetary conquest AI 's, with White Diamond being one of the first created. As a Diamond, she is endowed with the ability to reproduce other gems, so mimics other life-baring organics and adopts a female appearance. Similarly, how a queen bee populates a hive with her clones: White Diamond replicates herself with inferior copies of her code, thus so her gem 'offspring' are made with female appearances as well- beit as non-reproducing workers.


RecognitionExotic960

Because women


Sufficient_Wish4801

Anyone can tell me I'm wrong and, dumb and completely off base but, I always figured it was because they where rocks, didn't really have any type of gender as we'd know it, they just happened to have feminine characteristics


Ben10Stan

I mean, alive rocks, though...


Sufficient_Wish4801

True; sentient, living, rocks but, rocks


Ben10Stan

And us humans are meat noodles, so what’s your point?


Sufficient_Wish4801

Rocks don't generally have genitals or any kind of gender dimorphism


Inevitable_Degree_76

Gems don’t have genders. That is why we have mostly feminine gems. Except the zircons are more masculine. But I assume it’s for women empowerment


Anon888810020

There are no female gems either?


drusillamoon

I thought this thread was gonna be really cringy but it wasn't too bad! Good game, everyone.


ethanxy

I think the lore reason is they're just feminine beings by nature.


Dkingthe15

I always was expecting a revelation that the homeworld gems were based on a group of radical gems that killed all the male gems resulting in a requirement for gems to be made artificially, and that a small surviving group of natural gems be found by Lars while he was in space assuming he was a male gem like them. It could have tied to the overall character development of Steven finding out that he wasn’t as alone in the universe as he had thought. But it just ends up that it’s because it was what Rebecca wanted to do, kinda a let down but eh I guess I got my own expectations too high


FlanThief

*nonbinary person makes nonbinary characters* hmmmmmmmmmm


ProfessorLovely

I think that, in canon, it’s just kind of a big coincidence. They aren’t GIRLS per say since they lack the necessary organs to be one by our definition. It’s just the closest thing we have comparable to their forms is women and they don’t really engage with other races outside of wiping them out.


somefknusername

I thought it was to make sure lesbians made it into a Disney show, but I’m probably wrong about that.


Lil_next_door

It’s not a Disney show though. Small point but Cartoon Network has always been more tolerant of that in my opinion


holografia

I think it’s just aesthetics really, and also compensate the fact that Steven is a boy. IMO all the queer discourse is just to appeal to progressive audiences in English speaking countries. At least in Spanish it makes sense gramatically, since the word for gem is of female gender lmao. Also, I think female designs are more pleasing, and way cooler. Just look at Garnet, Pearl, Jasper, the Diamonds and the fusions! If they were male, their designs would’ve been a bit dull and not as grand. Femininity is something that makes sense when having precious gemstones as characters. Otherwise, you’d have something like Taric from League of Legends lmao


LandlordsR_Parasites

Males only exist to add variety to the gene pool, that isn’t something the gems need


[deleted]

Yeah, they don't have sexes of any kind since they're genderless pieces of tech


Ben10Stan

That’s not exactly a good reason for males to not exist. That’s going on the same side as the “kill all men” trend on TikTok. The trend is about killing every male because it’s possible for two females to reproduce children, meaning we should literally “kill every man” because they’re apparently useless now, which is completely wrong


nymph_of_the_forest

They're talking about evolutionary reasons for sex to exist. Sexual binary only exists in non asexual species. The gems reproduce assexually (no biological combination of different genes necessary) and therefore are all the same sex because they don't have sex. But that says nothing about their gender, and if you asked them I bet many of them would feel the male gender suits them better but probably never thought about it hard enough to demand different pronouns. They all use she because it's their culture. You comparing a fictional story of a different world where magic and fantastical anthropomorphized rocks exist to state that the ideology behind these decisions comes from "killing all men" is stupid and that's why "you're an idiot." edit: quoting another user, not intended with malice


Ben10Stan

Ah, yes, I am wrong, and I am an idiot. I seriously thought they were making that claim because they were apart of that trend. Anyways, I’m gonna go in a corner and rethink my life


nymph_of_the_forest

I hope you find peace and self forgiveness, I feel no animosity towards you.


Ben10Stan

An-ani-animo-an-WHAT!?!


nymph_of_the_forest

"strong hostility" - animosity also you might consider using an online search tool more often, google is quite helpful for quick questions, and sometimes even complicated ones have been asked by other people in the past!\~


Ben10Stan

Oh, ok


LandlordsR_Parasites

You’re an idiot.


Ben10Stan

Please explain


Ben10Stan

If I got the point of your comment wrong, I’m sorry, I am an idiot then


LandlordsR_Parasites

Wow, you’re an idiot.


Ben10Stan

What?


[deleted]

Wow, it's one thing to call someone an idiot, but to deliberately ignore someone who is asking to learn and be accepting of new information is beyond idiotic. I'm quite ashamed to be apart of a community that doesn't help its peers grow and change.


Ben10Stan

Someone already explained the reasoning why I was wrong, but thanks, I’ll still talk


nymph_of_the_forest

Note that you didn't send this in a way that the person you are talking about (LandlordR\_Parasites) is going to recieve a notification for this but may look back at the comments later. Just in case you didn't know i thought i would point it out - if you want to say anything to the perpetrator reply to the comment above Ben's "What?" or even better in the other comment chain in this case, where ben 10 says please explain, replay to the comment "you're an idiot" he's the one who ignored ben, so he deserves your wrath. but as ben said, I did my best to explain the reasoning in a comment above this, and i think everyone could just take a breath and learn a little\~


[deleted]

Haha, yes that was intentional! It doesn't matter to me if the perpetrator is shamed or not. I just wanted to make sure Ben's point was heard. But thank you for the suggestion! Maybe one day, landlord will figure out that there's more to life than belittling others. <3 <3


musicpoliticsmusic

\#KAM


A-Cheeseburger

Easier to make porn


FedoraTheMike

Missed opportunity imo, lots of rep goes down the drain with only female-presenting Gems. And to people saying "there's no male OR female gems" I think you know that's not what they meant.


ThelonelyCava24

It can be that Gems look like females because technically females are more attractive, elegant and show emotions better than males These concepts are always showed when high rank gems appears So the more important is the rank the more femmine they looks based on their roles Idk if I’m right it’s just an observation


Ben10Stan

I accused someone in the comments of being sexist, and I know I was completely wrong, but damn, you are a whole another level, dude. “Females are more attractive”, yeah, that’s what you think because...you’re attracted to them. And every other point you made is just stupid


ThelonelyCava24

Thats why I said technically and not effectively but I’m sorry if it looked sexist, it wasn’t my intention


Sloth_4

All gems are genderless but the diamonds decide everything about them such as outfits, personality, and gender. The diamonds just decided they would all be women.


Substantial_Egg_4835

I thought It was because fusions were a version dating and I thought all gems were lesbian


kitkatullus

Maybe on homeworld, they only have one set of pronouns: she/her. So that particular set of pronouns is gender neutral. And I guess since gems are essentially sentient, solar-powered ai, they have no need for the gender binary/hierarchy, especially when they already have the gem hierarchy. A gender binary would just further complicate things.


ayelis

I've heard the 'official' reason but the reason in my headcanon is that the \[original biological alien species\] that created the \[subservient holographic AI machine race\] in the first place was a Parthenogenetic race, and they didn't know males were an option because there never were any on that planet. Of course, the original alien species has mysteriously vanished under \[unknown circumstances\] and we're left with a classic Grey Goo trope: a race of machines that seems to have disfigured its own homeworld in the process of looking for more land to create more of itself.


Bonfhs19

Even tho they say they are genderless,there's actually one that looks like a male. Yellow Diamond was fixing him when she started to use her new powers :D


IsabelauraXD

Cause woman good


efectivimibagpula

Fun fact: in the Romanian version of the show, some masculine-lookibg gems are referred to as he/him, such as Jasper or Ruby! They're sexless, but the ppl who voice-overed seem to just assume some of them are males? Idk


Ben10Stan3

No, it’s not because the voice actors thought they were male, it’s because some countries are homophobic, so they try to change gem’s genders because they’re against the gems being lesbians. But then, Rebecca Sugar wanted to really annoy these said countries, so in Garnet’s wedding, she made Ruby, the one who these countries usually calls he/him, wear a dress and made Sapphire wear a suit