cause people like to find something simple and complicate it :D
i don't think i'll ever understand something like this but i've also not heard this debate before so i actually think that's kinda hysterical that people are getting defensive for made up robots.
Like... isn't that energy better used on something that isn't fictitious?

It's a weird thing to argue about.
And yeah, the robots do not have a sex/gender, but obviously the characters they represent have a gender. Same with marble or metal. It does not have a gender, but when made into the form of a gender having being, we tend to refer to it by that gender.

I haven't even observed the fuss about FNAF but I'd reckon it won't matter if things would-make-sense-or-not, but that someone has some emotional investment in the characters not having gender. See if the people complaining themselves don't like gender as-a-thing? I don't know, its a starting point.

That said, it makes sense they /could/ have gender:

In /Transformers/, at least from what I've observed and been taught, regarding the series I follow: Transformers don't have sexes. They /do/ pick genders or their forms may suggest one sex or another. Probably due to being in contact with species that have sexes, thus the concept of gender, and those peoples' languages being all wonky in reference to them if they didn't pick one? And then I figure, outside the fictional-universe, there are /real humans/ watching the show and well, these are pretty well anthropomorphisized robot-aliens, so yeah. My Transformers OC chose not to pick a gender though. It is an It but gets called all pronouns and finds that peculiar an interesting what individual people choose to call it, but isn't offended.

I reblogged this point on tumblr that someone made about a single-sexed alien species:
http://transparasite.tumblr.com/post/104190328012

"re: the asari, I am having a hard time believing that an entire species can universally identify as a singular gender. if there weren’t trans asari after studying their own native fauna (I’m assuming not all species on Thessia reproduce the same way the asari do), there had to have been some after contact was made with aliens that express other genders"

The concept of gender, it seems plausible, especially in a fantasy world where you can do what you want, could be adopted by alien peoples or other beings with a singular sex or none at all.

Also "The robots do not have physical genders because they are robots.

The characters have genders."

Is a really good way of putting it because "robot" is a physical type an "character" is a more subjective thing, kind of like an identity is subjective.

True, the animatronics themselves are genderless, but if the characters portrayed by animatronics are assigned as male or female, then that's just what the creator wants. However, I see nothing wrong with characters presenting as genderless or being created as gender neutral/agender. That decision should be just as respected as anyone choosing to make their characters male or female.

-flails-
Idiots! Idiots everywhere!

This is something that shouldn't NEED to be argued about =I