Grown man cancels Netflix after cartoon robot alien that transforms into different things fails to identify as male or female

A grown man has today cancelled his Netflix account, insisting the platform has gone woke because an alien character in cartoon about robots that transform into other things didn’t identify as male or female.

Simon Williams, 52, who has previously accepted without hesitation that an intergalactic robot can fold itself into a cherry-red Camaro within three seconds flat, insists that a non-binary alien robot is “a step too far and wokeness gone mad!

“In my day, transforming alien robots from a distant galaxy were all boys and girls, as they should be, not this they/them nonsense.

“I can suspend my disbelief long enough to lose myself in a narrative about space-travelling beings from another world who take on the shapes of items from this planet, but I simply can not accept them failing to adopt our binary gender system.

“I don’t care if you travelled a million light-years from the planet Cybertron, when you get here, you’d better pick a gender and stick with it, genitals or no genitals!”

The controversy was sparked by a viral clip circulating on Twitter (or, as Williams insists on calling it, “real news”). In the short scene, a robot introduces itself with they/them pronouns. Williams claims this was “a targeted attack” on traditional family values.

Netflix has declined to comment, though insiders suspect the streaming service will not be losing sleep over Williams boycott. Mainly because his wife quietly renewed their account to continue watching Black Rabbit and the latest season of Fisk.

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