Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
It's stated in the game itself that the pixies are genderless. Considering "genderless" exists outside the binary, the term "non-binary" still applies here. The role of their leader is called a king and not a queen despite looking super feminine. The regular pixies are purposefully androgynous. They use gender-neutral pronouns (at least in the English version) in reference to each other in the game. I don't know how you can get through Shadowbringers without knowing this unless you skipped cutscenes or closed your eyes and plugged your ears to ignore the bits that were harmful to your psyche. The English localization team is lead by Koji Fox and he helped create the lore for the game itself so you can't brush it off as a translation thing either.

Bringing up real-world mythology has nothing at all to do with what's in the game. Just like how Tolkien's elves are nothing like real-world mythology's elves, people are allowed to take from it and adapt it however the hell they want because it's not real and it's not owned by anyone.
This is a very disingenuous argument, and there's no way you don't know deep down how much you have to engage in mental gymnastics to believe this was intended, or that this happened with no peer pressure or more likely fear of getting 'cancelled' - I.E. have political activists perpetually run a campaign of Black PR against them. (Look at the many episodes during WoW's lifetime and how many times they had to bend the knee and be proactive to prevent this kind of threat)
Just read this entire thread from the start and take a shot every time someone is either "fishing" for excuses to label people Xphobic, or using vague wording to subtly imply that someone only holds the opinion they hold because of some nebulous conception of "hate", thus dehumanizing and gaslighting them.
Just take a good look at how this discussion always goes and tell me any of this comes from a place of honesty and earnestness.
It's always just fishing for negative responses, so they can compile them and use them as leverage later.

Also, to say that FFXIV Pixies take no inspiration from the pagan mythological creature of the same name because it's not a 1:1 recreation, is just as absurd.
You could make that same argument about Goblins, Bombs, Ixal, Amalj'aa, Sylphs, Kobolds, etc. on the basis that they all use the same model and thus are "androgynous non-binary icons".

These requests are on the same level as that 'reporter' asking about E*P brothels at Fanfest.