Being Gendered Correctly

[micropanther7]

It's only an issue if you allow it to affect you so much that it becomes an issue. If it was being done maliciously then that is something totally different. Real Life is only relevant to an in game world if you make it relevant.

Personally I think the OP is being overly sensitive to the "issue". I want players to see me as a fun player who brings enough to the game that I make a good part of the team. Not base their attitude on me having breasts.

As I said before, we are all Gender: Gamer.

I hear what you're saying, but yet that is your perspective. What is no issue to you, is an issue to HER, how hard is that to understand? You're not her, so how can you know how things affect her personally, or how she deals with things? Especially since she's transgender, most of us can't even relate. People are different, they respond differently to same issues, have different life experiences... I don't think she's being overly sensitive at all, or that dramatic tbh.

Elvie summed it up perfectly for me

It's not asking to be a special case or be treated differently to suggest that people use pronouns that match a player's presented character or remain gender neutral unless corrected or informed by that player differently. That's just basic human decency. Nothing to do with gaming really. It just comes up because in a social game, people use words, and words matter.

Edit: Agrees with Remilia_Nightfall, logic has no place here loll. It's subjective would you say? I dunno, got a headache and going in search of some pills :O

[Sapphic]

I hear what you're saying, but yet that is your perspective. What is no issue to you, is an issue to HER, how hard is that to understand? You're not her, so how can you know how things affect her personally, or how she deals with things? Especially since she's transgender, most of us can't even relate. People are different, they respond differently to same issues, have different life experiences... I don't think she's being overly sensitive at all, or that dramatic tbh.

Well to be honest, unless SE enforce a strict policy to that extent. There's nothing you can do to change it. How many of the population you think even bother with the forums? Personally I refer to people by their character name. Or if they put their name as a title, Princess, lady, lord, etc, then i'll call them by their job XD

In spanish and Portuguese, if their are 99 female friends and only one male. They are still given the male collective noun.

It does irk a little that "male" gamers are so closed minded to the fact we are making a noticeable presence in the gaming world. All the G.I.R.L.S and M.M.O.R.P.G things they like to throw out when anyone mentions about female gamers. Maybe it's a sense of insecurity that we are getting involved in something which was, traditionally, a male only hobby. Or fear that we will show them how to play XD