Being Gendered Correctly

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Summary of this thread:

- OP makes a simple request: use pronouns that are appropriate to their character's gender. You wouldn't call a man a she or a woman a he in the real world. Why would we do it in the game world?

- People who don't want to reconsider the language they use defend it with: "This is the way it's always been", "Women don't exist on the Internet (or in numbers so low we can still treat them like they're irrelevant)", and the predictable "too sensitive", "drama queen", "hysterical" nonsense.

- Pointless comments are made in attempts to derail the thread.

- OP is called a troll because posters don't agree with her (everyone who has a different point of view is a troll you know).

- Posters get nastier and nastier, dabbling in sexism and transphobia.

- The same posters demand the thread be locked because it is the OP obviously who is a troll.

Edit: Also I'm sick of the "bend backward" rhetoric. It's the same kind of drivel that you can read in the comments section of any LGBT article on the Internet. Nobody is asking anyone to do something actually difficult here.

Example: You see a female character and you refer to them as she. Scenario 1: "I'm a dude." OK, no problem, man. Scenario 2: They (whether they're really a man or a woman) don't correct you. So who cares? If you think this is a difficult social interaction, it's you, not the OP who has psychological issues.