I have no problem with Mr. Optimus Prime changing his name. Whatever his reasons were, they were his and he's got every right to call himself whatever he wants and I'll stand behind his right to determine who he is and how he wants to be called regardless of his reasons.
Whyever he did what he did, I gotta give props to the fact that it took a lot of courage to do it and to make it official. And to put up with the ridicule and the day to day grief that has to come with it. (I'm willing to bet he's probably heard "No, we need to see your REAL ID" more than once).
What bugs me is that while people may think Mr. Optimus Prime is a tad off his nut for naming himself after a toy character, nobody thinks his being a tad off his nut is because he's male. And moreso that nobody within the fandom thinks that his actions are typical of all male fans.
Outside the fandom, I know, is a different story because of course outside the fandom all fans default to male hence reviewers/magazine writers assuming the target audience for the live action movies was made up of guys who wanted to see the movie and girlfriends who had to be talked into going (in my case, this was amazingly easy to do). But that's a rant for a different day.
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Date: 2007-08-15 01:55 pm (UTC)Whyever he did what he did, I gotta give props to the fact that it took a lot of courage to do it and to make it official. And to put up with the ridicule and the day to day grief that has to come with it. (I'm willing to bet he's probably heard "No, we need to see your REAL ID" more than once).
What bugs me is that while people may think Mr. Optimus Prime is a tad off his nut for naming himself after a toy character, nobody thinks his being a tad off his nut is because he's male. And moreso that nobody within the fandom thinks that his actions are typical of all male fans.
Outside the fandom, I know, is a different story because of course outside the fandom all fans default to male hence reviewers/magazine writers assuming the target audience for the live action movies was made up of guys who wanted to see the movie and girlfriends who had to be talked into going (in my case, this was amazingly easy to do). But that's a rant for a different day.