Agreed. It does a disservice to both of us and slaps a stigma on far too many people.

 

Most people can't bother to tell the difference between mental health and insanity, and think that insanity = violent.

 

I’m not mentally unstable though, which is what you’ve been using to justify that opinion. Insane is a very specific part of the mental illness spectrum, labeling all of it as insanity is incredibly ignorant.

 

I wasn't the one that said PTSD is a mental illness. I was just sympathizing with you.  

 

Hey, Quintus - if you click on a user's name, an info box pops up with a very convenient "ignore" button. It has made my browsing experience on this site exponentially more pleasant!

 

G1 Galvatron, the original coo coo bird.

"They've all gone mad. This is no place for me!" - From the screeching lunatic who attacks his own men at the drop of a hat.

Also I adore the people honestly, genuinely being upset at calling post-Jhiaxus Arcee a crazed psychopath. Are people still assmad over that interesting and unique take on Arcee and the origin of sex in their species? The sad sap who wrote the IDW Transformers historia asked some rando to """""sensitivity read""""" her origin for him.

For those uninformed, sensitivity readers are a scam and are currently one of the major things strangling creativity in most book communities and creating stagnation within.

It's not like any of his other creations were mentally unwell... nah, not at all.

 

And people said CW Blades having missiles made no sense.

It made perfect sense!

 

I'm not labeling anyone, just explaining how the words are used. It's not my fault when people talk like that.

Posttraumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia

p.s.: Just to clarify: I personally wouldn't use the word insane as it usually has a negative connotation.

 

PTSD is a form of trauma, and calling it a mental illness is disingenuous imo. Also, scientists now considerit as a systemic disorder.

PTSD 'should be viewed as a systemic disorder'

 

G1 Sunstreaker is explicitly called out as a sociopath.

 

No he isn't. He is called ruthless.

 

Try reading the full original profile.

Who's Who in the Transformers Universe

"A potent arsenal and tough hide like Sunstreaker's would be sufficient to preclude any serious weaknesses, if it weren't for his ego and sociopathic tendencies."

 

FYI some of those articles have been altered, and they even included Botcon Packrat in their profiles.

 

if i remember correctly Airrachnid kept trophys of her victims in her spaceship

 

"The complete egotist, Sunstreaker thinks he is the most beautiful thing on Earth. Loves his sleek styling, contemptuous of other Autobot race cars (particularly his twin Sideswipe). Fires laser-guided ground-to-air rockets and high energy electron pulses at 300 bursts/sec. Tough polymer-steel skin resists artillery. Not a team player. Can be baited into dangerous situations, but is a very calm, competent, and ruthless war machine."

Original bio.

 

Abridged bio.

Bio - Transformers Wiki

"These were actually abbreviated versions of longer bios given to the writers of Transformers fiction; Marvel Comics writer and editor Bob Budiansky crafted a lion's share of these. The expanded versions were eventually published in Marvel's The Transformers Universe comics."

As I said to begin with, full original bio. Some of those truncation's were pretty bad, some conflated abilities that confused later writers, etc. I thought it was well known at this point that there were full length original ones that were then shortened to fit the tech spec space.

 

That only happened due to the experimentation the she underwent by the hands of Jhiaxus

 

Which was traumatic and messed up, causing her to go nuts. I don't get how this is hard to grasp.

 

Because for some odd reason the professionally offended decided it was a statement stating all women are crazy and that it was a negative connotation to transgenderism. It'd be like had DW gone through with making Sunstreaker gay, coming to the conclusion that all gay men are sociopaths and calling whomever at DW that wrote the story a homophobe.

Seeing that in relation to another character points out how stupid the reasoning is, but you have a plurality of fans on THIS VERY SITE that will argue to death that the intent of Spotlight: Arcee was to take entire demographics to task. They are also not afraid to gang up on you and call you every name possible if you disagree with them.

 

Beserker from The Last Knight was called a sociopath in his TRF dossier which is why he didn't get released. Dreadbot from the same film can be best be described as Jokeresque with the fact he broke into a bank, killed nine people and blew up the money. Also there is Dropkick who is played for laughs like HK-47 from Knights of the Old Republic and finally Dead End from the IDW Movie Comics