Heh. Yeah. I'm not a huge fan either, though not as much as I dislike 'mech' for the males, because that's more properly for mechanical beings in general.
(And it makes TF fangirls describing themselves as femmes kind of confusing, sometimes.)
ETA: Though one of the things I do like about it is that it emphasizes gender rather than sex, which makes more sense to me for mechanical beings.
And my ideas of TF gender aren't stable enough for me to properly wrap my mind around Starscream being femme from an in-universe perspective. (As opposed to an out-of-universe perspective, where I can certainly see that he was designed to look and act more feminine than, say, Megatron or Optimus.)
Re: TF gender
(And it makes TF fangirls describing themselves as femmes kind of confusing, sometimes.)
ETA: Though one of the things I do like about it is that it emphasizes gender rather than sex, which makes more sense to me for mechanical beings.
And my ideas of TF gender aren't stable enough for me to properly wrap my mind around Starscream being femme from an in-universe perspective. (As opposed to an out-of-universe perspective, where I can certainly see that he was designed to look and act more feminine than, say, Megatron or Optimus.)