Poll: ED-E's Gender

[ReservoirAngel]

So for those who don't know, ED-E is a small, sphere-shaped hovering robot companion in Fallout: New Vegas.

Spoiler: Warning: big picture of ED-E

I saw a thread about ED-E recently, and it reminded me of a conversation I had with someone on here a while back while I was still bothering with New Vegas.

To all New Vegas players here, I ask of you: what do you refer to ED-E as? Do you call ED-E a 'him', a 'her', or an 'it'?

I personally call her a 'her'. I don't actually know why. There's nothing about her to indicate gender, but to my mind ED-E is just a feminine name.. Or maybe I'm just doing what owners of boats do and instinctively Christening it as female.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

I refer to it as IT... but I can't help but see it's blaster as a wang.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

He, He is somewhat the "go to" gender for me. Which was bad when it came to Samus.

Imagine my surprise as a 6 year old playing Super Smash Bros for the first time and discovering the robot with a laser cannon was female.

 

[Shimmyshake]

I always called ED-E a him because I pronounced his name as Eddy. Just gave him a more human feel; damn, I loved that robot.

 

[Tearopenthelives]

I say Edee deedee minus the d so feminine, also the quest ED-E my love, hetero engaged, it's a she

 

[Vie]

Its a freaking eyebot, your not French stop trying to assign gender to inanimate objects!

Well ok, Animate object - its still an object.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Its a freaking eyebot, your not French stop trying to assign gender to inanimate objects!

Well ok, Animate object - its still an object.

First off I'm part French! I forget how much, but whatever.

Secondly, it's only natural to assign a gender to something you take along with you help out in the way ED-E does. If you assign a name to ur rifle, then ur weird and/or French (even though I did name my rifle in-game), but ED-E is fair game for assigning a gender to.

 

[SimuLord]

I call it an "it" and, if you don't count the occasional Micmac girl that my fur trapper ancestors no doubt knocked up along the way, I'm pure-blooded French. So there.

Although mostly I call it cannon fodder, since I play Hardcore and that means the stupid robot gets itself stabby-stab-stabbed by a Radscorpion or shot to pieces by a Viper Gunslinger on the way to Novac.

 

[irtaco]

I refer to ED-E as a girl, mostly because I say it like "Ede". It just sounds feminine that way, I guess.

 

[Vie]

First off I'm part French! I forget how much, but whatever.

Secondly, it's only natural to assign a gender to something you take along with you help out in the way ED-E does. If you assign a name to your rifle, then your weird and/or French (even though I did name my rifle in-game), but ED-E is fair game for assigning a gender to.

If your part French your clearly allowed to name it.

But its still comes off as... ..wrong. Its a robot, a computer, it has no need for gender. You don't need two robots and bad 70's porn music to get more robots. So why apply a gender role to it when it has no purpose aside from making the squishy meatbags able to anthropermorphise it.

Also we could just look it up in the GECK?

 

[ReservoirAngel]

First off I'm part French! I forget how much, but whatever.

Secondly, it's only natural to assign a gender to something you take along with you help out in the way ED-E does. If you assign a name to your rifle, then your weird and/or French (even though I did name my rifle in-game), but ED-E is fair game for assigning a gender to.

If your part French your clearly allowed to name it.

But its still comes off as... ..wrong. Its a robot, a computer, it has no need for gender. You don't need two robots and bad 70's porn music to get more robots. So why apply a gender role to it when it has no purpose aside from making the squishy meatbags able to anthropermorphise it.

Also we could just look it up in the GECK?

I really don't know WHY I needed to assign her a gender. It just seemed unnatural not to. Just leaving her as a genderless...thing...when she was so helpful seemed disrespectful somehow. Plus I naturally pronounce ED-D as "Deedee" only witout the first D, so calling her a female name does make you naturally end up calling her a girl.

 

[dancinginfernal]

I call refer to ED-E as a her. Reason is because I pronounce the name Ee-Dee like from ME2's EDI.

Thus the female-ness.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

First off I'm part French! I forget how much, but whatever.

Secondly, it's only natural to assign a gender to something you take along with you help out in the way ED-E does. If you assign a name to your rifle, then your weird and/or French (even though I did name my rifle in-game), but ED-E is fair game for assigning a gender to.

If your part French your clearly allowed to name it.

But its still comes off as... ..wrong. Its a robot, a computer, it has no need for gender. You don't need two robots and bad 70's porn music to get more robots. So why apply a gender role to it when it has no purpose aside from making the squishy meatbags able to anthropermorphise it.

Also we could just look it up in the GECK?

Where's the fun in that?

Oh and boy will you have issues when the future rolls round and robots are fighting for equal rights in human society.

@ OP On top of the fact I see the gun as a symbol for a dong, I also called him eddy for quick reference when talking to others about the game...

I think I will retract my comment of calling him an it.

Could be both, but can't choose it cause it ain't very PC :/

 

[oliveira8]

I call it a "her", cause the name reminds me of EDI from Mass Effect 2, and I like to believe that it was Tricia Helfer that voiced those bleeps and bloops.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

Well, according to this mod (which I have installed. :3), ED-E is a "she", so I'm gonna go with female.

That ruins the image of ED-E for me entirely

 

[Vie]

Oh and boy will you have issues when the future rolls round and robots are fighting for equal rights in human society.

Not really, if a sentient machine wishes to be called Sir or Madam then I'll call it Sir or Madam. I'm just not going to apply either to my toaster, or any other non-sentient machine tool.

 

[Ih8pkmn]

It is a ROBOT. you know, just like the Pyro from TF2.