The Gayest Robots

3.20.2012

By Out.com Editors

Why do robots always talk in such "gay" voices? Is the future gay? Is it meant to be a slur? Are all robots gay? Take your pick…

C3PO, Star Wars (1977)

I mean -- "There’ll be no escape for the princess this time" -- don’t we all say that when things get tough? C3PO even has the perfect mincing walk, so he may be a robotic homophobic slur, but we prefer to think he’s just a queer ole droid.

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