Attaching a gender to the robot humanizes it and its actions. I want to point out that another reason for this gendering has to do with the language used on the Internet. The use of gendered subjects in reference to anything, where the gender is either inapplicable or unclear, is a fairly common template. Saying 'he's dying' or 'she's doing her best' may not be an enforcement of gendered ideologies, but more a term of endearment since there is also no real rhyme or reason to us he vs she. I ask myself if I can tell the difference between a meme format or an empathetic use of gendering.  

While the majority of the commenters used ‘he’ pronouns, I find this work to be specifically more feminine gendered, mainly due to the red liquid the robot is programmed to endlessly scrape towards itself. It immediately calls to mind menstruation and the constant relationship woman with a uterus have with blood. Here I want to apply the idea of the abject. According to Rosemary Betterton in her piece on Body Horror, "the abject is that which defines what is fully human from what is not,” (Betterton 133).  It describes the blurring between the internal and external boundaries of the body and how bodily fluids (like blood, mucus, etc…) existing outside their natural container (the body) is unnerving. Historically the ideal woman is reserved and contained. This applies too to her body and where it is in time and space. A woman out in public is encroaching on the male dominated sphere versus remaining where she belongs, in the domestic sphere. The blood that is subject to the robot’s futile scraping alludes to menstrual blood with its color and consistency. The robot is stuck in an endless relationship with this blood, in the same way a woman too can be subject to similar bloody relationships. The blood is oozing and pooling and uncontainable which renders it abject. It connects to those pre-existing discourses that view fluids exiting the female body as disgusting and threatening.