R4-P17: Guy or girl?

According to the official Star Wars site, "R4-P17 started off as a traditional R4 unit, complete with the characteristic conical head, when she was nearly destroyed in a trash compactor mishap on Gyndine."

However, according to the Insider:
"according to Episode II Incredible cross scetions, R4-P17 began his operational life as a cone headed R4 unit...."

 

Hmmm. You got me on that one.

-SWIG

 

I thought droids didn't have genders.

 

I always thought droids were neuter as well.

 

I think a droid's "sex" may just be subjective.. Especiall on R(insert # here) units.

 

I think droids are similar to cars in today's society. They don't have a gender, yet sometimes people refer to them in a gender-specific way (some people will give their cars names, or say "she's a beauty" when talking about their vehicle).

 

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YJ edit: Inappropriate

 

they have gender programing,for example R2-D2 had masculine progaming and KT-10(from the TPM correct me if i wrong about the number) had femanin programing as you could tell by her voice,it may be an editing error from eather the book or the website.

 

This can only lead to really bad things.

 

There is another...EV 9D9 of ROTJ was female. "You're a fiesty little one, but you'll soon learn some respect."

 

He/she sounded like any other R2 unit so I guess it has masculine programming. Or hey maybe somedays it's male, somedays it's female.

 

Yeah, ships/cars stuff don't have genders, yet we still refer to them as "she".

Maybe Obi-Wan just needed a female in his life, so he decided to make her a girl.

 

oh, jedimasterguff, that was too funny. obi-wan should have a woman in his life, but it shouldn't be robot.

 

Maybe R4 is a hermaphroditic droid.

Hey, it could happen...