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[–]Dontcaretoday 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't care much about the pronouns in the character creator, and your idea of being able to do some absurd shit in a non serious game would be amusing.

It was a random NPC conversation that annoyed me more because it derailed what I was doing. Like I just happened to overhear them and thought her friend was telling her to leave a job that treated her poorly as I passed, but then it seemed like a weird way to talk about a company, which was confusing enough to pause and listen. It sounded like they were talking about a romantic relationship so at first I thought that the "they" they were referring to was probably multiple people, like the girl was dating a couple or something since wokies like promoting that sort of thing. Then it finally occurred to me that they were probably talking about a singular they person who is too special to be referred to as a man or woman.

I will give them some points for painting the they/them in a negative light, but it's still kind of irritating that they threw in puzzling conversations for the sake of inclusivity. Or maybe I'm just stupid I dunno.

It would be nice if they non-binaries would pick a unique non-gendered pronoun for themselves as a whole and leave the word "they" to its traditional usage.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah the linguistic confusion is annoying as. Which I think is why this stuff doesn't catch on without people pushing it. Like I personally don't give a fuck if you feel like your own personal Identity doesn't fit neatly into the idea of "woman" or "man" but not giving a fuck means I don't give a fuck if using normal polite language offends your sensibilities either.

They is just confusing since it's the plural.