He was the one who brought-up gender! But, fighting the same point over and over seemed a pretty ineffective way to go about things. So, Slipstream managed to overrride her volatile emotional subroutines and speak more calmly - not that her voice was exactly pleasant in either case.

"Maybe it's fair to say neither of us should have known about alien cultures from another universe." She made a sort of bow, which was all grand and sweeping, because tendency for melodrama and over-acting was something all Starscream's clones probably inherited.

"But, for you future information, Cybertronian bots having different styles of the same body type model, or translating their pronouns into languages that employ gender is like one of those idiot expressions." Was that right? Well, the phrases were idiotic, too. "The concepts are only roughly analogous. You can't make literal translation."

Slipstream wasn't sure whether space raccoons understood Earth analogies, but she didn't think one would be any more likely to understand Cybertronian ones.

"Let's just say some of us ended up with the optional trim package."