It's interesting that there is such a thing as an issue with female looking robots. So basically, those who are against fembots/female robots are against a Transformer toy having a bust or other feminine features.
So what is desired by some is a non-feminine fembot...is this any better?
It's cherry picking points of an argument if we don't look at the entire picture.
It's okay for "male" robots to exist and they do because in all branches of fiction from G1 we have most Transformers characters referred to with
he/him. Additionally, fembots are referred to with
she/her.
It's okay to have male proportions in the majority of robots(broad shoulders, torsos tapering down to the waist), it's okay to have male facial features(square jaw, masculine facial structure).
It's okay to have male voice actors voice apparently male robots/bio-mechanical organisms.
BUT...
It's not okay to have a fembot with feminine features(breasts/a bust).
So it's a boy's club with a big "NO GIRLS ALLOWED" sign hung up at the entrance.
Adult males collecting toys made for children are against a girl toy robot. Welcome to 2013.
As far as the geisha comments, at most, the helmet/upper head design does resemble the basic shimada hairstyle associated with geisha but only from the front view of the head design. From any other angle, the resemblance is largely lost.
Does it only take a head design that weakly resembles the shimada hairstyle to qualify a character design wholly as a geisha? That's all it takes?
Incidentally, the shimada hairstyle was not exclusive to geisha, non-geisha women wore their hair like that as well.
The face design, particularly the red details around the eyes combined with the white colouring of the face is kabuki influenced, as already said in the thread.