Peridot finally looks up again, and pulls a face at him. What? What kind of question is that? Why is he choosing right now to bring this up? She's sad! They just had a touching moment of reassuring one another! And he chooses this moment to ask about Jasper's idiocy?
The problem is that Peridot is incapable of giving him shit about it, because she is basically physically incapable of hearing a question without boasting the answer to it. He has to show off what she knows. It's a compulsion.
"Uh... Probably not?" she says with a frown, scratching one ear. "Gems don't copulate with one another to reproduce like humans do, and we all invariably refer to one another with pronouns that you humans would categorize as 'feminine'. Couple that with Jasper being a stubborn rock-headed jerk who has zero interest in learning anything new, ever, who values gem superiority above all other lifeforms, and the result is her automatically referring to every new person that she meets as a 'she'."
Peridot shrugs. "If I had to theorize, I'd say she's probably continuing to do it until she's corrected simply out of disdain for alien culture, but... She might just be confused, too. I mean you have to admit, it is kind of weird that you all call one another different things based on what kind of gross fleshy bits you have between your legs, when half the time those fleshy bits in question aren't even visible. I just keep up with the trend because I make an effort to be culturally sensitive."
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The problem is that Peridot is incapable of giving him shit about it, because she is basically physically incapable of hearing a question without boasting the answer to it. He has to show off what she knows. It's a compulsion.
"Uh... Probably not?" she says with a frown, scratching one ear. "Gems don't copulate with one another to reproduce like humans do, and we all invariably refer to one another with pronouns that you humans would categorize as 'feminine'. Couple that with Jasper being a stubborn rock-headed jerk who has zero interest in learning anything new, ever, who values gem superiority above all other lifeforms, and the result is her automatically referring to every new person that she meets as a 'she'."
Peridot shrugs. "If I had to theorize, I'd say she's probably continuing to do it until she's corrected simply out of disdain for alien culture, but... She might just be confused, too. I mean you have to admit, it is kind of weird that you all call one another different things based on what kind of gross fleshy bits you have between your legs, when half the time those fleshy bits in question aren't even visible. I just keep up with the trend because I make an effort to be culturally sensitive."