Being Gendered Correctly

[Assirra]

Except it's NOT a safe bet. Roughly 1/3 of the playerbase is female.

Methinks it would be interesting to start referring to everyone (including male characters) as she just to see how people react when the shoe's on the other foot.

Happened with me before in other games (and this one) i just say i am a dude and move on. If everyone started doing it, i would just go with the flow and do the same without giving a shit.

[Gardes]

Except it's NOT a safe bet. Roughly 1/3 of the playerbase is female.

I dunno, if I'm told that I have to gamble my money away on 1/3 and 2/3 odds and I can't opt out, I'd pick the 2/3 odds.

Unless I'm betting against SE's rng. Then I already lost.

[Takeva]

I dunno, if I'm told that I have to gamble my money away on 1/3 and 2/3 odds and I can't opt out, I'd pick the 2/3 odds.

Unless I'm betting against SE's rng. Then I already lost.

It's silly to compare gambling to calling someone he or she based on what they appear as.

You have the risk of losing your money when you gamble. You risk nothing from calling another person he/she based on the character they chose.

[Kimmy_Dee]

It doesn't have to be personal for it to be painful at worst, tiresome at best.

And honestly the "English isn't very gender neutral as a language" doesn't really address that people are assuming one gender over the other pretty consistently regardless of all other available evidence.

[Luxx]

It doesn't have to be personal for it to be painful at worst, tiresome at best.

And honestly the "English isn't very gender neutral as a language" doesn't really address that people are assuming one gender over the other pretty consistently regardless of all other available evidence.

then just tell them youre a girl then lol. be prepared 2 have
"pics pls?" and morons flirting with you all day. i personally just keep quiet because who really needs to know what gender i am.
im sorry i cant really feel for you since i never once felt offended.

on the plus side, sometimes you can get gil and goodies for being a girl character.
yay girls!

[Takeva]

Yep, been called a "he" lots of times. It's becoming very annoying because it feels like they had already assumed I was a guy no matter what, even though my female character is right in front of them. I call people "he/she" based on the gender of their character. If it's incorrect they will correct me.

People who call you a "he" are either being very funny or are just plain idiots. Your lala is just to adorable and with the name Kimmy! I want to squeeze you! x3

[TheCurls]

I get called a "he" all the time and it doesn't bother me. Just get over it.

[Versiroth]

Honestly... why does it matter? People can call me an "it" for all I care.

[Marowit]

I fail to see an issue here to be honest. If I know someone is X I'll refer to them as such, but if I don't I'm not going to go out of my way to confirm a gender and will default to he until corrected. This isn't me trying to be mean or evil it's just making the safest bet when 9 out of 10 players are guys. I'm not going to call everyone by their characters gender just so I can be "right" that one time it's not a dude behind the keyboard.

[Takeva]

I fail to see an issue here to be honest. If I know someone is X I'll refer to them as such, but if I don't I'm not going to go out of my way to confirm a gender and will default to he until corrected. This isn't me trying to be mean or evil it's just making the safest bet when 9 out of 10 players are guys. I'm not going to call everyone by their characters gender just so I can be "right" that one time it's not a dude behind the keyboard.

It shouldn't be females fault a male wants to play a female character. That reasoning is ridiculous. I can see why OP would get hurt. None of you have to live with the challenge of being transgender. Character is female, must be a female. Looks like a girl, must be a girl. They shouldn't play a female if they don't want to be called a she. Why cater to that? Girls do exist online.