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| IkePoR said: Rich, calling it "angry about seeing words" when the pronoun and alphabet community are in constant strife with free speech and want to compel it in every space they enter. But I digress. "Why not?" isn't a reason for why we ought to, which is what I'm asking for. You're saying it's appreciated by those who appreciate it, when those people are nowhere to be found. They aren't playing this game and they don't seem to play games much at all. Likely because there aren't that many of them. It doesn't "hurt" me, no. But it upsets a significant subset of the buying public and no matter how trivial you may believe "seeing words" is, it's a point of contention for a substantial sum of the market. So I repeat, why, as a business, would you directly spite a large group of your base to cater to a group that doesn't exist? As I asked Renamed before, can you give me a reason for why we ought to have them? |
Why are you using so many pronouns? No wonder conservatives don't like this place.
Why should we have them?
Pronouns are a basic piece of the English language, they're a basic piece of what makes up a person. Most of these pronouns have existed in their exact form today, for the past like 600 years. Men frequently get referred to as "he", Women frequently get referred to as "she".
Games have let you pick your gender and allow you to customize incredible lengths of your characters for decades. Adding pronouns is just another way to specify gender. It was never controversial.
They're not something invented or special to the LGBT community. It's literally just the LGBT community wanting to be treated like everyone else. Because everyone else automatically gets called by the correct pronouns. And the fact that people are acting like pronouns are something new and controversial, is extremely evidential to all of this concern being manufactured.
It can also be especially meaningful for games where aliens are involved, where characters might not have to be humanoid. A natural way to specify which aliens are "male" and which are "female".
Pronouns are not anything special. The literal only reason they've been controversial is because trans people have been vilified.
Last edited by the-pi-guy - on 28 August 2024
