Being Gendered Correctly

[Assirra]

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.

Ahem, you might have missed a point where the OP is generally insulting everyone that doesn't agree as sexist.
This thread didn't go of the rails before that point, just read the whole thing.

[Purrfectstorm]

Ahem, you might have missed a point where the OP is generally insulting everyone that doesn't agree as sexist.
This thread didn't go of the rails before that point, just read the whole thing.

I did read the whole thread and generally found it pretty depressing but not because of the OPs posts, which seemed reasonable to me. It's true that not everyone in this thread is sexist but there's surely enough of it here to dominate someone's experience. It's similar you know to saying you'll use the word "he" because it's correct 90% of the time. Call everyone in this thread sexist and you'll be just as correct (and saying that 10% of the posts are non-sexist is being pretty generous).