Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-108.80.32.16-20160803042127/@comment-10390252-20161012100155

Ren is a gender-bent version of Fa Mulan, the Chinese woman who famously pretended to be a man to join the army and save her country from its foes when her father was unable to do so (all of JNPR are gender-bent national heroes). This raises interesting implications.

Ren does strike me as being somewhat ambiguously androgynous in some ways. It wouldn't surprise me if he was non-binary with strong male and female aspects to his personality and to his behaviour. Maybe even asexual?