I tend to think of it less as a taboo of any sort and more as just ARMOR. Sure, a knee to the groin might not hurt them the same way as a human male, but if the bits are just hanging out then they're that much more likely to be damaged (or, given the way they loose bits in battle, outright RIPPED OFF). So my brain translates covers as armor, not as clothes.
(and oh god, we won't discuss my inner Ratchet muse and his raving about Sentinel Prime's design and the wires that are just hanging out and WTF do you think you're doing going into combat like that, do you just WANT people to yank those things off of you?!)
Prime is totally leveraging this as the reason WHY he shouldn't get back into the whole egg laying schtick - they don't have enough people to take care of more than a few eggs at a time! (Ironhide just wants to know how Megatron DID this with an in-heat Prime, for pit's sake. Ratchet reminds him that Megatron was a) full of himself, b) arrogant, c) stubborn, d) even bigger than Prime, and e) promptly dropped into stasis lock for a few months immediately after Prime's last heat cycle. =P )
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Date: 2011-04-23 05:12 pm (UTC)(and oh god, we won't discuss my inner Ratchet muse and his raving about Sentinel Prime's design and the wires that are just hanging out and WTF do you think you're doing going into combat like that, do you just WANT people to yank those things off of you?!)
Prime is totally leveraging this as the reason WHY he shouldn't get back into the whole egg laying schtick - they don't have enough people to take care of more than a few eggs at a time! (Ironhide just wants to know how Megatron DID this with an in-heat Prime, for pit's sake. Ratchet reminds him that Megatron was a) full of himself, b) arrogant, c) stubborn, d) even bigger than Prime, and e) promptly dropped into stasis lock for a few months immediately after Prime's last heat cycle. =P )