Customizable pronouns

[Iscah]

I just assume everyone is a dude and call them dude or bro until corrected and then I use their preferred Pronouns.

This is the list that I was speaking of. https://genderfluidsupport.tumblr.com/gender. Hey I don't have an issue with whatever anyone wants to call themselves. They aren't hurting anyone. I just think the amount of work that it would take wouldn't be worth it. Hell think about it like this? Minority groups that are larger still don't have any representation in FFXIV. I.E PoC, Natives or w/e. So FFXIV has never really been that inclusive.

Representing specific cultures is a very different thing to genders, which are a thing that all humans have regardless of culture.

There's no reason to expect to see native Americans in Eorzea (although actually we know they're over in the New World, and are brought up in the blue mage quest), and we can set characters to have all kinds of skin colours.

In a thousand years, when archeologists are digging up bones of today's civilization, what gender do you think they're going to classify the skeletons as? If you answer anything other than "male" or "female", then you're denying reality. If you want to headcanon yourself, in game and/or out, as something else, go for it. Just don't expect, nor demand, that others pander to your imagination.

The whole point of this debate is that gender isn't as clear-cut as [male body = male gender] and [female body = female gender].

It's clearly a very real thing for people whose minds are built that way. They're not "putting it on" for fun - why would they when other people react to the concept so badly?

Even 'they/them' is supposed to refer to multiple and not an individual. It's actually grammatically incorrect to use 'they/them' as a singular. It's plural.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

Dates to the 14th century, if Wikipedia is correct.