Male Pandaren get undeserved hate & seen as a 'joke'. Its time to speak out against this injustice

Never understood and never will ever understand why pandarens are seen as a joke and especially male pandarens seen as ‘‘goofy’’ and ‘‘joke pick’’

The vast majority of players(in normal realms at least) playing as Male pandarens do it as a ‘joke’ because according to them,- killing people as a ‘fat panda’ is divine comedy, this results in them always putting ridiculous out of place transmogs on them.

And by the way, they’re not ‘fat’, they’re chubby muscular.

I love bears and chubby furry men in general i think their designs are awesome, being able to play as one is a wonderful thing and is niche luxury that this game as bad as its fallen from grace, has to offer.
It doesn’t stop there either, their designs are perfect too, you can tell the guys that designed male pandarens knew what they were doing and definitely know whats up even down to the thick pointy eyebrows part.

People ingame seem to think me playing as a male panda rogue is some kind of joke and have even been told ‘gear up a real rogue quit wasting your time on a panda lol not worth it’ as if my pick was a joke.

I adore my panda and his looks, he’s perfect and captures the essence of panda rogue. He’s not a ‘joke’. Not only do i get to play as a chubby bear, but as a assassin one too at that. VERY specific i love it.

If this were FF14’s community, my panda would be received completely differently, and have nice convos. hrothgar don’t get hate.
Why is WoW community like this? too normie…

Its time to change this mentality. This isnt fair for us.

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I think maybe they said that because of your name.

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not male pandaren, op, just you

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i dunno, when i play my male pandaren i’m seen more as a ‘good dude’ than a joke.

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Might not be the best time to say it…but I once created a Pandaren DK alt named and I quote “Yo crazy uncle”…it was hilarious…

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I used to have a male panda rogue named ‘hesuphat’ but replaced him with a vulpera.

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I don’t see this character as a joke, nor do I have him mogged to look in any way ridiculous.

There are some people who genuinely find Pandaren to be a cool fantasy race.

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At least you get consideration as a “male”. We Blood Elves have a hard time convincing people we even have males, despite the fact that BE males have proportionally gigantic feet and hands and what that means anatomically…

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They hate us because they ain’t us

I’ve always hated that “joke”.

It wasn’t funny in 2005, it’s not funny now.

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Same here.
I prefer young and sexy turtles…

A Turtle Made It to The Water!

And became soup.

Tortolla…

I’m secure enough of my toxic masculinity to take a joke heh.

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“The day that Deathwing came” confirmed that “male” BEs are actually damsels in distress.

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I feel your reaching really hard to be outraged over a nonsense issue…

They’re just jealous. We have the best food, booze, lore, views, aesthetics…

… and bellies! :panda_face:

But nah, try not to mind those folks, OP. You’ll find they’re often the least imaginative sorts.

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I could be a dog chasing cars. you never know

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Hear, hear!

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lol when I think of pandas I think of po and Kung fu panda. Bunch of them going around lol.