Being Gendered Correctly

[SarcasmMisser]

OH boy the official forums for the game where I'm a cat lady with the breast slider on 100% and I slay mean monsters, what fascinating things do my fellow players want to talk about?

Linguistics and themselves it appears, and themselves some more. I wish the CMs here were as strict with thread locks as over on the jp forums.

[Kimmy_Dee]

I can't believe there are still people making 'there are no girls on the internet' comments. That joke is a decade out of date.

That aside, I sympathise with the OP, but this thread was never going to end well. There isn't a MMO community in the world where the majority of people would care about something like this, rather than just going 'not my problem idc stop whining lol'.

There are a lot of really great folks who play FFXIV, so I was more hopeful here than I would be elsewhere.

[Mcshiggs]

For making the point that singular usage of They not only has precedence but is "increasingly accepted" in American English.

Besides...

http://gyazo.com/459ea49ee44e9381a779d29753a3d751

The whole article has issues where both he and they are acceptable, you are just wanting us to ignore the parts of your reference you don't agree with.

[bokchoykn]

...I think you know exactly what you did there, and I hope you know that it does not make you a good person.

Lol my bad. Sorry, man.

[Takeva]

OP you have to accept that a lot of people are idiots online.

Exhibit A:

Lol my bad. Sorry, man.

They won't ever get it. I say just announce you're a girl every time you enter a party. Since they find it to much of a problem to recognize anything feminine, why should they care if you want to announce your gender.

If they ask you why do you have to announce your gender, let them know. You're sick of being called a guy. I think if girls do this more often, maybe the problem will be fixed.

Or you can ignore anyone who keeps calling you he/him/dude/man even though your feminine name and character is right in front of them. Ignorant people should be ignored.

[o3o]

Lol my bad. Sorry, man.

This made me lol

[Skeezix]

It says that generic he and they can both be used, so why link us to something that supports the use of generic he which is the whole reason you made this complaint thread?

He prob forgot to edit the Wikipedia to fit his terms.

[MoraClaret]

Look at all the people parroting a 15 year old stereotype.

[Skivvy]

You know, for the number of folks going, "It's just a game," none of you seem to realize that it's kinda shitty having to deal with the exact same shit I deal with in real life in a game.

Maybe you all have a blast dealing with the shit that sucks in your life in games but I don't particularly.

Very few of you have any idea what gender dysphoria is like, having never experienced it for yourself, so you see the triggering of it as either something I have control over (that's not how it works) or the dysphoria itself as no big deal (it really really is). So, maybe instead of telling me to just deal with it, recognize that some people have to deal with shit that you don't, and try to be considerate of that.

You are admitting that you have a disorder. For better or worse, this one is on you to try to work through. You have some issues being associated with the term "he", and perhaps it's time to try to work through that so that you can cope better in this type of situation vs. expecting an online community to stop referring to anonymous players as "he".

Also, you're also a lala, and unless you never wear a hat, female Lalas are incredibly easy to mistake as a male. Especially when viewed from above floor-level. -.-

[Bakiraka]

Lol my bad. Sorry, man.

Your posts are literally the only reason to read this thread, thank you for salvaging this train-wreck and giving me a hearty chuckle. 42 pages though, jesus christ these forums man... these forums. Absolutely ridiculous.