I wanted to bring attention to future customization options, specifically for Dragonflight. At the end of 2021, there was datamined info on the future use of pronouns as a gender customization option. There has been no new news but its likely inside the game files for future use.
Has there been any updates on when this will be added into the game? One of my biggest complaints is the lack of customization and gender options. A lot of other games already adopted the use of pronouns such as Forizon Horizon, temtem and saints row 4. The list is growing so I think itās a great opportunity for WoW to adopt this. I also hope they add in a lot of different ones such as them/they or even personalized ones that are within TOS.
I really hope this datamine is real and it gets traction again. No new updates since but would like to hear from blizzard on what their plans are for dragonflight!
Does this game even use pronouns?
I assumed the game used the same text for both male and female characters.
Iāll admit Iāve not paid enough attention to confirm either way.
I donāt wish ill on OP or any LGBTQ person. I just genuinely donāt understand why some people base their whole life and personality around their gender / sexual orientation.
I try to empathize, but to be honest, I forget a personās name five seconds after they tell me. When I have to include pronouns, which are constantly expanding/evolving, it makes it even harder.
That aside, the pronoun issue fundamentally changes language as we know it and how we communicate with each other. It gets even harder when we are talking about multiple languages and not just English.
Weird itās been brought up for weeks by far better activistsā¦
Cool, but again, I wonder if you know of the backlash with all the retcons.
I get it you want more, so demand it, donāt change whatās there fight for a new character.
I really think you are just posting another contentious thread, one that has actually been covered for the last few weeks. I also notice your āattemptsā at only choosing select portions of the TOS and ignore the document as a whole. But hey itās you! And thanks for the 2 new alts that popped here supporting you! Itās getting so easy to see them now.
I worry that I may be getting a little too real with this analogy but I need to convey the feeling.
Imagine a young girl who wants to grow up to be a beautiful princess. But instead she gets beaten with an ugly stick and transforms into a horrible ogre, and everyone in town tries to be nice, but they all describe her as an ogre. When it comes to social hierarchies, sheās at the absolute bottom and short of some fairy tale miracle, thereās no hope of ever being remotely middling. And every time people use the word āogreā itās a reminder and reinforcement of this painful state of being.
āYou are not special. Youāre not a beautiful and unique snowflake. Youāre the same decaying organic matter as everything else. Weāre all part of the same compost heap.ā
When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
What does that have to do with my post? Suicide over someone calling you a pronoun you donāt like is a mental health issue.
Also ātheyā has never been historically used as a non-binary pronoun. This is a blatant lie thatās being told over and over again. Itās correct use is as a plural. It has been used when the sex or gender of a person is unknown or deliberately being concealed. Even this has always been controversial with many linguists claiming this use is incorrect. Itās never historically been used to describe someone as not being male or female. This is a recent phenomena.
The issue here is the default implicit assumption that members of the majority group donāt make their identity revolve around their gender or sexual preference or religion when, in fact, they very much do. It just doesnāt stand out because people are accustomed to it. See: a century+ of marketing, the most common themes cropping up in literature and entertainment, discussions with friends and co-workers, etc. So much of it revolves around ābeing a manā or ābeing a womanā or ādid you see that guy/gal? yum!ā Get your testosterone pumping, feel like a woman, high horsepower, meet Mr/Mrs Right. Itās at the core of what we do, itās part of being human and having sex drive and identity in the first place, and LGBTQ+ people are no different, unsurprisingly.
