>>719228494 (OP)
I generally tolerate the "he/him she/her they/them" selection in some games, but that's the limit. They/them is just useful as a way for me to be lazy if I'm constantly changing characters or recreating them, or whatever.
Anything more than that, and it's a guarantee there'll be some two-hour plot about same-sex love that has more effort put into it than the game itself.
Bonus points for he/they and she/they, since those are there just for brownie points; literally 100% of people are "they"s, it shouldn't need to be stated.
>>719229023
Because the pronoun stuff is only relevant online, it's an internet thing, a way to clarify that you're male/female behind your keyboard without having to send pics of yourself or talk in voice chat.
People just take it too far and drag it out into real life, where that shit doesn't fly with "real" people who have real eyes and real ears and there's no voice filters or beautify filters to save you.
I look at you, you look like male, sound male, so I say "hey man, is anyone sitting here?" and now I'm literally worse than the worst depiction of Satan in your mind and you demand screaming in falsetto that I change to fit your reality.
My favorite part of the pronoun shit was when they were making words and pronouns that are actually incomprehensible IRL, like the "womxn" thing, do you say "wuh-mixin"? Or "xhe/hir"? "Fae/Faer"? How the fuck do you put those into sentences without having to explain their meanings to literally 100% of the people you ever meet? Half the made-up words from that era weren't even pronounceable with actual mouths IRL but were fine in text form, and people just forced that shit on real people IRL anyway and got the media to side with them too because ???
