What is a Type-B?

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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

This popped up in world of warcraft recently. Literally nothing about the character models changed but they renamed it from male/female to type 1/2.

They had that big scandal at Blizzard about management and sexual harassment and then this pops up. Lol...

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Are males #1? Seems like doing it that way opens up a whole kettle of fish for accusations of sexism. One of them has to be type one.

We gonna go with type 1 and type a? Lol.

You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Put in the gender option? Help help I'm being repressed the vidja games reinforces the binary.

Remove the option? Or not have a character creator at all? Help help I'm being repressed because I used my female name with this male looking character and it is giving me virtual disphoria. (Real complaint I saw once, hilarious).

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes male was #1. Thing is that it's still glaringly obvious which models are male or female. One thing about WoW character models which is actually intrinsically "sexist" is that the non-human male characters actually look like non-human but they make all the females look like human females with secondary sex characteristics which you would expect from a traditional human beauty standard. Like they literally have a race of cow people but for some reason the female cows have a skinny frame with human breasts.

The only exception I've noticed are the humans which are presented as sailors. They are all a bit chubby and you can play a chubby female in that case.

This reminded me of EverQuest which was an older MMORPG from about 1999. It was heavily based on D&D and if you played a female dwarf you could have a beard.