Nope, considering nothing outside of your race/class changes that in game already
I hope this means NPCs will no longer refer to my (male) character as they/them, like with the covenant intros in Shadowlands. That turned what should have been an epic moment into a cringefest. If this change means NPCs will refer to my character properly as he/him, then Iâm fine with it. In fact, during SL beta I complained about this issue, and suggested a pronoun drop-down menu as a solution.
However, changing Male/Female to Body 1/Body 2 is just stupid. If you donât want to strictly link gender with biological sex, just go with Masculine/Feminine, like in Cyberpunk 2077.
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If it isnât a big deal, why change it in the first place?
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Gender is literally a made up concept to the point romance language can give gender to any and everything.
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We had CENTURIES of nasty, often-violent rejection of human beings who donât fit into the neat categories weâve imposed on ourselves.
If you find what is happening now stupid, maybe thatâs because oppressed people tend to go overboard a bit when they finally are able to exist without fear. You should be happy they didnât start building guillotines and such, really. That overreaction thing can get ugly. This revolution is remarkably civil, really.
Additionally, Iâve noticed that younger people are navigating these changes much more easily than anyone over 30. This makes me wonder if those of us fumbling around with âthey/themâ or grumbling about changes arenât just experiencing the inevitable out-of-step moments that happened to our parents and grandparents. Itâs kind of funny how the complaints are so similar to the fifties reactions to rock and roll.
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This is such a obvious pandering, yet people eat it like the company is obviously not doing it for the money.
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Cuz they can, same reason you can cry about this small change
Its free, what money are they making
Thatâs too bad.
because it allows for deeper customization based on what YOU want, not what the game labels it as. Its straight up just more options, if your characters RP or canon or whatever is that heâs a male with a masculine body type and masculine pronouns and a deep thundering voice, youâre still quite free to have them be that because its a role-playing game and thatâs your prerogative
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Oh yeah, Iâm sobbing real hard here. /s
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It is, definitionally, a science.
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I can tell you are considering how often you type of âthen why change itâ
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No itâs not.
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History does not favor who you think it does.
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So a word invented in 1955 has been a social construct for the thousands of years of human civilization. Right.
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Iâve said it twice because nobodyâs answered the question despite replying to that topic.
If this change was done to help a group of people who are bugged by mousing over a male body with a male symbol and seeing the word âmaleâ flash in a tooltip, then definitionally youâve already agreed that it was a very minor thing in the first place. 
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I donât really care about your opinion, sorry.
It only âimpactsâ those who care about what a customization screen says. Literally no one in game is going around calling you âbody type 1.â Itâs not plastered across your screen. No one but you cares.
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Well, lets turn your question around then
Are you saying the change is done to harm a group of people who are bugged by mousing over a muscular body and not seeing the word âmaleâ flash on the tooltip?
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No, Iâm just stating if Iâm now body 1, now I am body 1