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OPEN TO NEW EXPERIENCES? Wall-E
An opera version of Brokeback Mountain. Same-sex marriage in California. Madonna's new album. America is, by any reasonable measure, getting its gay on. And nowhere is this more apparent than when it comes to robots.

Take Wall-E, the new movie about an ostensibly male robot's romance with an ostensibly female visitor robot. Seems hetero enough, sure. Yet, on a closer inspection, Wall-E's story of overcoming isolation and social awkwardness in a new, fast-moving cosmopolitan world seems like a classic coming-out tale.

Of course, film and television provide a rich history of androids, most of them far more fey than Wall-E. Below, Radar dusts the glitter off its homometer and gauges the gayness of some of America's most beloved (and sexually ambiguous) robots.

HOMOMETER
0: Asexual
1: Steak and beer
5: Bisexual
10: Flaming


First Up: C-3PO and R2-D2

06/25/08 11:59 AM
Related: culture, Homometer, robots, the lighter side, this is a gay magazine
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Maybe it's just too easy, but I was waiting for Nick Swardson's ACTUAL Gay Robot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBUImjOCg5g

Posted by: esandberg on June 27, 2008 11:08 AM

Obviously written by someone who got the assignment dumped on them. "Here, write a funny article about gay robots. I know, you don't follow nerd culture, so Google some popular robot characters and make something up.
It's due in an hour."
The Tin Man was a CYBORG, not a robot.
Johnny 5 liked Stephanie's "Nice Software! Whooee!"

Posted by: fireflyfarm on July 1, 2008 2:48 PM

hey you Evan! you're bad! you re a crazy guy! everybody or robots are gay for you! analize yourself!!!

Posted by: marilyn_1804 on July 4, 2008 5:48 PM

Hate you. i really do. i never saw any gaynes in wall-e wich was a very good movie bye the way. You really want publicity right. none of the robots you said are gay o.k.

Posted by: Evan hater on July 4, 2008 10:40 PM

The simple issue of touch this matter show that maybe you are homofobic.

WALL-e is maybe the most straight robot that i had ever saw.

I know that you ar e going to say "its just for fun..."

But EEEEEEE Wrong answer.

There are thowsands of themes that you coul posted about robots.

MAn, you are insane...!

Posted by: jlta5 on July 5, 2008 6:49 PM

It is the craziest thing I have ever heard, Damn, Evan don't be sad if your book is a 'worst sellers', why do you think WALL-E is gay, if he is inlove, he is just unique, and you can tolerate that
You fool idiot, can you please acquire more imagination and write about important and useful issues, please don't be stupid, please don't do this to literature and journalism, they are too bad, for you to come and write about this.
And please think about this, and if you have a talent, use it for good and not for this, you are the only person in the world who thinks that this will be a goood book.
open your eyes
AMERICANO, TENIA QUE SER!!!!!

Posted by: andres27 on July 5, 2008 10:17 PM

u are so stupid , Wall- e and the other robots u mention are not gay , its just a simple yet beautiful movie about love and characteritics that human should have about some things, plus Wall-e was in love with Eva, dont come out and write that Eva was a boy .
U should stop written or better kill urself , and plis dont start telling that u wrote this just because " wanna see people reaction" or " just for fun" that just a stupid excuse for ur stupid written dumnass .
And what if the robots u meantion are gay , do u have a problem with gay people fucking homofobic jerk , cuz it sure looks like it .
plis dont ever write again if u dont have REAL bases , and just as Andres27 said : Tenias que ser gringo marica ......

Posted by: susu696 on July 6, 2008 2:52 PM

What a stupid article. Evan, you had nothing else to do did you?, damn, you just manipulate facts to make these robot look gay. I must say when you search deep enough to find something that isnt true, like these robots "being" gay, it says more about you than about the robots (saying this to you in the most objective way). Man simply what the ****, Wall-E gay?, preposterous, stupid, ignorant, with nothing else to do, is the man who would do this article,

Posted by: akron88 on July 6, 2008 5:21 PM

Well, I think everybody should calm down a bit, after all Mr Mulhill clearly stated that these bots sexuality is ambiguous, which by it's very meaning implies that it can only be guessed based on perceptions. What it really shows is just how skewed the author's perceptions really are.

After all robots don't have sexuality per sè, they may have the resemblance of gendered personalities based on the traits imprinted on them but sexuality is a lot more than just a bunch of attitudes and mannerisms.

I think the epitome of the author's skewedness can be seen in his interpretation of C3PO and R2, I always thought of them more as a cybernetic version of the odd couple than anything else, but this guy just thinks that two guys can't become friends to a level of bonding based on their common experiences that makes them almost brothers.

I' m sorry for Evan, it must be tough being him.

Posted by: Count Zero on July 6, 2008 5:27 PM

I just pass by on msn and I saw this article and I couldn't just pass this webpage by.

Well I think that robots just have personality, remember "they are robots", and humans create robots, they dont go to a hotel room and ....
They dont need to reproduce themself, humans do, they just dont.
So they can be Gay or Straigh, but Wall-e, is evident straight cuz he's in love of a "woman kind robot".

So get a job! :P lol

Posted by: jortega on July 6, 2008 10:45 PM

First of all, why make such a big issue on who is or not gay, bi, trans and so forth. Why make it such big news. I believe it is not anybody's concern what goes on in other people's personal lives. I for one personally do not care. To each their own. "Coming out of the closet" has become a trendy thing nowadays.

Writing articles like these is a waste of time, intelligence, morality and values. There are so many meaningful subjects to write about. I never visualized C3PO and R2 as being "gay", when I was a child I saw them as just being buddies. Even as an adult I see them as buddies. I think each person interprets the world as who they are as if the world was a huge mirror.

Evan, write something more meaningful. The world needs something different for once. Use your noodles.

Posted by: marypc on July 7, 2008 12:34 AM

Fucking ignorant asshole who wrote this.

Posted by: Oniwa on July 7, 2008 9:14 AM

Shit article.

Posted by: Maskatron on July 10, 2008 5:16 PM

This is the stupiest, dumbest article I have ever read. I hope I don't see any of this shit again in Radar, or I will cancel my suscription...

Evan, get another job.

Posted by: alas2y on July 10, 2008 9:04 PM

oh sure???? it´s a joke????
this class or shit minds confirm the true.

the end´s coming!!!!!!!!!

men and woman die alone but close one by other...

this idiot people scare true love??
wall e´s a dreamer in a plastic world

best clean MCDONALDS

Posted by: talknowblowlater on July 23, 2008 5:59 AM

another fact:

you´re an asshole and may be gay

Posted by: talknowblowlater on July 23, 2008 6:01 AM