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  1. Butterfree

    Gender

    The problem isn't that traditional femininity is bad, but the disproportionate association of being female with traditional femininity. Nobody should complain about individual characters liking makeup and wearing dresses, for instance, but when you've got a huge lineup of female characters and...
  2. Butterfree

    Gender

    "Oh, they'd have given Machamp a stupid gender difference if they were just creating it now but they made it like this to maintain compatibility with R/B/Y!" doesn't really make any sense; they gave Pikachu, Butterfree, etc. noticeable differences even though they "broke compatibility", so if...
  3. Butterfree

    Gender

    Eh, Pokémon is wayyy better than many other things sexism-wise. At least the "females have lower Attack IVs" thing was changed the moment they didn't need to restrict themselves to compatibility with the first games anymore, and rather than putting breasts and bows and eyelashes on the females...
  4. Butterfree

    Gender

    Natalie Reed wrote a post on what gender identity is and isn't that seems very relevant to VPLJ's questions (and a lot of more widespread confusion).
  5. Butterfree

    Gender

    I... don't see how borrowing a word and allowing it to be used as any gender would help? "Manneskja" being feminine works just fine - the fact it works just fine is why we haven't needed a pronoun like singular they while English had started to desperately need it sometime in the fifteenth...
  6. Butterfree

    Gender

    Yeah, I'm not opposed to grammatical gender so long as it's arbitrary and everyone knows it's arbitrary and nobody cares or really connects it to gender in people, but when you are talking about people and alternative gender identities come into the picture, things get complex. :/ Icelandic...
  7. Butterfree

    Gender

    Well, I can't speak for them, but I don't think it has anything to do with intent to do whatever, just with dissonance and discomfort with being referred to by gendered pronouns or viewed as a particular gender. So being called "she" or whatever would just feel deeply wrong, not like it really...
  8. Butterfree

    Gender

    I wouldn't exactly know, but might some binary trans people not be uncomfortable with being called "they" by default, simply because they'd prefer to be viewed and referred to specifically as men/women? I mean, if referring to people whose gender identity you don't know explicitly as "they"...
  9. Butterfree

    Gender

    Another good link that could be put in the first post: Natalie Reed's blog talks about trans* issues a lot (and she is trans herself). She also talks about other things, but the trans* stuff is what's relevant to this thread. She is also pretty generally awesome. Incidentally, gender identity...
  10. Butterfree

    Gender

    What's getting Jason-Kun and Legendaryseeker99 may be confusion about why people don't just stick with "they" if they don't feel they fit into the gender binary, rather than wanting particular custom-made gender-neutral pronouns, which I don't think has been addressed here (which isn't...
  11. Butterfree

    Gender

    This thread has gotten way off topic, but I can't just leave this alone: Correlation is not causation! Being fat doesn't magically make people fail their education - it's the lower-class-ness that causes both of them, since lower classes have to eat cheaper food, which is often less healthy...
  12. Butterfree

    Gender

    I'm well aware what world we live in and the fact that gender actually is an issue in it, and of course it is perfectly valid to be non-cisgender when the societal construct of gender does exist and actually affect how people look at and think of themselves and others. But this does not change...
  13. Butterfree

    Gender

    Being that gender is a societal construct that brings people nothing but trouble, I kind of hate the idea of considering myself to have a "gender identity" at all. I call myself a woman and want to be referred to by the pronoun "she" because I have female genitalia and therefore both have a...
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