Being Gendered Correctly

[FJerome]

English doesn't have a convenient non-gender-specific third-person pronoun like Japanese does. So it's either pick one and risk offending someone, or say "it". And nobody takes very kindly to being called "it".

"They". The pronoun you're looking for is the singular they.

[Elvin]

I use "He" by default. I swap to "she" if I'm asked to do so.
And I'm not even thinking that when I say "He" is a male or when I'm say "She" is a female. I don't care at all. I'm just taking the option more probable.
Seeing this http://news.mmosite.com/content/2013...are_male.shtml I think is totally undestable.

Quick googlesearch talks about 60-40% split acording to BBC, but I think that they problably asked in game or something like that,acording to my experience is not true. I woud say 80%-20%

But anyway, this shoudn't be a big deal. No one shoud treat you diferently for being one gender or another, so what? If you feel insulted for an asumption based on a fact (most female characters are guys in R.L.) the problem is you actitude. I undertand that you can feel bad about it and you have a real life problem about it. But you have to take in mind that no one wants to insult you with this.You are the one who have to overcome that feeling.

[Tharian]

You just said that your black list is half full, half of 200 is only 100, so you have plenty of room on it to still add people to it.

Yeah, but I add like 5-10 RMT to that list practically every day.

[Razzle]

"They". The pronoun you're looking for is the singular they.

Well I think he meant "it" as refered to animals. (seeing as miqoutes are not human, btw technically Hyur are not Human too, they just look like them XP)

So we should just call everyone "it"

Also everyone are forgetting not all of us are English teacher (blame SE for didn't list that as minimum requirment for buying the game lol)

Some don't know English well like you do or don't know how to use it. Personally English is far from my main language.

[Remilia_Nightfall]

I find that more often than not, transgender and gay people are way more sensibile to these issues compared to straight people.

This is nothing new, obviously, as we all know that in some parts of the world there is still a lot of discrimination.

However, trying to "force" things like the OP is doing is going to have the exact opposite result of what these people aim to achieve.

"Equality" does not mean "OMG you must speak to me in the way I WANT YOU TO". That's retarded and completely shortsighted.
Why should I bother accepting you for who you are, if you try and force me to do so? No chance in hell I am going to - on the contrary, I will most likely start trolling you.

Seems to me the OP is taking all this way TOO personal - most of the people you find online do not care if you are man, woman, gay, trans or dolphin. You are not that important to them - you are a bunch of pixels, and some of those pixels have MORE pixels to indicate they have boobs. That's all.

And by the way, I am a male - and I usually play female characters. Why, you ask? 'cause I like catgirls, like the majority of the playerbase of FFXIV :P

[Mcshiggs]

Yeah, but I add like 5-10 RMT to that list practically every day.

If that were true, then you have only played for 10-20 days.

[Tharian]

Well I think he meant "it" as refered to animals. (seeing as miqoutes are not human, btw technically Hyur are not Human too, they just look like them XP)

So we should just call everyone "it"

Demoting fictional Sentient Species to the status of Animals is insulting to the sentient species in question. Just because they aren't Humans doesn't mean they are by default animals.

You wouldn't call Vulcan's animals. Nor would you call "Yoda's Species" (yes that is what his species is actually called) animals either (though a case could be made for Ewoks and Wookies I suppose). Therefore you shouldn't classify Miqo'te as Animals just because they have cat-ears and a tail.

If that were true, then you have only played for 10-20 days.

I was using a form of Reductio Ad Adsurdum. In this use I was exagerating how many RMT I put on there daily to point out that we have a severe RMT problem in this community and that black listing them is the only realistic way of dealing with them instead of trying to report each and every one of them.

[Remilia_Nightfall]

Demoting Sentient Species to the status of Animals is insulting to the sentient species. Just because they aren't Humans doesn't mean they are by default animals.

You wouldn't call Vulcan's animals. Nor would you call Yoda's species animals either (though a case could be made for Ewoks and Wookies I suppose). Therefore you shouldn't classify Miqo'te as Animals just because they have cat-ears and a tail.

Technically, humans ARE animals, since they are not plants or rocks.

Elevating sentient species to something "above" animals is just wishful thinking. But I feel we are digressing :P

[Razzle]

Demoting Sentient Species to the status of Animals is insulting to the sentient species. Just because they aren't Humans doesn't mean they are by default animals.

You wouldn't call Vulcan's animals. Nor would you call Yoda's species animals either (though a case could be made for Ewoks and Wookies I suppose). Therefore you shouldn't classify Miqo'te as Animals just because they have cat-ears and a tail.

Yes I would refer to them as "it". (sorry Yoda for insulting you but you're an alien!)

My miqoute is a proud non-human cat-nyah

[Mcshiggs]

I was using a form of Reductio Ad Adsurdum. In this use I was exagerating how many RMT I put on there daily to point out that we have a severe RMT problem in this community and that black listing them is the only realistic way of dealing with them instead of trying to report each and every one of them.

Big words doesn't change that fact that you still have plenty of room on your blacklist.