Gender locked race?

[Shougun]

Myth: I'm gay and therefore can not be X.

Not liking a visual doesn't mean he doesn't like men :3. He could like men in only shades of violently pure purples all other presentations annoy him, this would not make him phobic it says he has a type (like most people of any orientation have). You may say it's a bit selfish to hope a visual type isn't present in the game because one doesn't like it but its not out of fear of someone's orientation that they hoped it wouldn't be in game. Its not who they are that's the issue its how they appear, like you can't say I have prejudice against comedies just because I refuse to watch a 4 hour one.. or even if I mocked it for the duration while I went to watch another comedy I love (comedy is not the issue, time was).

Basically if we use such words so loosely only those who have no preferences to anything at all would be clear of any powerful negative descriptions, giant walking blobs of tofu with no opinions for the win (tofu because of flavorless, not color lol). Anyway.. I think people use that word too lightly, like many other -isms and -ists. With the whole social media thing and the watering down of words, at least insults at each other, communication feels a bit meh some days. Just my opinion at least lol.

If you are indeed gay, it baffles me that you would shame someone for not conforming to the norm.

I think ideally one would not think themselves abnormal and thus it doesn't mean they would go out of the way to accept other abnormal things. If they're in a comfortable position or desiring one that seems normal then of course they accept what is normal to themselves and not look for non-conformists.. or in other words in my experience those who are different view of normal tend to shift their whole world view to that, what is abnormal or normal is not greater or smaller.. its just different. Like I see a lot of hate from some of communities that tout how abnormal they are and thus it must mean they're accepting, but it certainly confuses me that acceptance means wading into the group feels like you're an undesired outcast - so perhaps I'm abnormal and they're only accepting what's normal to them still. Restated, abnormal is abnormal and normal is normal, even for those you think are abnormal they have a normal .

This exact post nas suddenly made me lose all interest in discussion since I've realised everyone's getting incredibly spiteful and petty over what amounts to a height change and some different animations.
I'm waiting until Fanfest before I say anything else.

While I'm a bit excited I might get literally the race type I've been hoping for, I want you to know I'm not cheering for you not to have yours. Don't let it ruin your day mate . I agree though that we've ran on a lot of air already so we probably /have/ to wait till fanfest before we get anything more. Maybe when all comes out, we'll all be screaming hype . The whole recent french localization leak (bug really) was just some wild goof so we still need a lot more enough lol, we'll see though - maybe this is some master plan leak system for hype trickling. What's nice about unofficial leaks (like the lion/dancer bit was) is they're not bound to them, could even be testing responses to concepts they haven't decided on yet.

Another thought I just had, is JP is the worst place to announce a bestial race. JP loves their cute races more than NA and EU. Maybe they will be more polite in person and on the forums, but JP twitter/ 2ch is absolutely vicious. I cannot imagine it will go over well.

I can hold onto whatever little scraps I can to try to keep my sinking heart afloat. :C

Could be that they believe the eastern audience would be less vocal about a genderlock though. Imagine western response to "no male viera, but we have another race also genderlocked" vs eastern. We're already more rowdy crowd, on top of that the idea of genderlocking is more foreign to us. Just a thought though, not saying that's why (I have no idea what to actually expect from FanFest lol).