ChronoTwigger wrote:Well... no.
There's nothing like "organic androids".
Androids are human shaped robots. Maybe a cyborg could be organic. Androids are NEVER organic by definition.
My point was to have you notice how no one NO ONE care who are Huey Dewey and Louie parents but KIDS DOESN'T CARE. It's a kid show. Sons and daughters are nominal roles. And so even a robot can have kids and no one seems to care.
If they can reproduce are not androids at all, but cyborgs.
No kid ask himself how possible is to HAVE SEX with a woman and no kiss her. Most of them never kissed any or doesn't know how to reproduce.
That's because they AREN'T androids. They ARE cyborgs. The series makes that abundantly clear, that they were humans who were upgraded mostly biologically but with some cybernetic components. That's the entire reason Cell can absorb them. So a plot point that is heavily delved into is not exactly a good example to use for your argument of the details not mattering.
As for the topic at hand... I honestly don't see the big deal, and I'm someone who has been regularly complaining about Goku's characterization in Super. But this seems plausibly enough in character to me. And it seems the people who seem to believe kissing is a necessary component for romance have never stopped to think that kissing is not a ubiquitous gesture. While scientists do believe there might be an instinctual compulsion to kiss, the fact of the matter is that various cultures use and have used kissing for various purposes, and the idea of kissing as a form of expressing romantic love in Western culture is a fairly recent development. So there is no reason to believe that your (general "your") own preconceptions of what constitutes romance are biologically ingrained. In fact, there's plenty of reason to believe the opposite. In other words, it's a social construct. And if "making out" is a concept Goku was never introduced to, there's no reason to assume he would simply pick it up out of nowhere. It also doesn't in any way indicate that he is incapable of demonstrating affection in his own way. The argument that he is withholding affection or remaining emotionally closed off because he doesn't kiss presupposes that he understands why someone would kiss, and the scene in question makes it obvious that that is simply not the case.
Obviously, the bigger question, as others have brought up, is how he would have avoided the idea for so long if Chichi was an influence. And that is a bit of a head scratcher. But maybe sex (and by consequence, children) was a higher priority, and that took so much effort that Chichi just decided to quit while she was ahead.
