Genderlock reminder to SE

[Lacan]

Genderlock isn't even a real terminology used by actual video game developers and designers. It's not even something that can be found within a dictionary. It was something that the players and public made themselves.

Let's not pretend that it's actually professional or real terms used within the industry and don't tell others that they can't comment on an issue for terminology that doesn't even exist and was fan-made to describe a situation that people don't like instead of simply just saying what it is outright. "I can't play this race under this gender because it wasn't made."

If you want to misunderstand a term people are already using, be my guest. Saying "genderlocked" is a lot simpler than typing out "I can't play this race under this gender because it wasn't made" every time. That's the reason people came up with it in the first place. It boils down to semantics.

If something was locked, it's implied that it was already made but you're prohibited from using it outright. Nothing was made, therefore nothing was locked. A door is locked, you obviously can't go through it even though you want to get to the other side.

Male Viera and female Hrothgar aren't locked behind a door that you can't get through. They were simply just not made. That's it.

You're misinterpreting it. That isn't what people mean when they say it, but if it makes you feel clever to point that out, good for you I guess? No one is arguing that male Viera and female Hrothgar are already in the game and just waiting to be unlocked. There is nothing to indicate that.