Is WALL-E Male or Female?
How a pair of animated robots reveal our gender biases
6 min readJun 25, 2018
Pixar’s 2008 animated sci-fi film WALL-E about a little robot tasked with cleaning up an over-polluted, dystopian earth has several overt messages and themes. Most obviously, it warns against rampant consumerism, ecological devastation, and the complacency of society. Yet, ten years after its release, it carries a different…
