New, optional profile field: "Gender Pronoun"

He is a cool dude!

“:Ahem: She’s a she!”

She caught the Pikachu~

“I prefer going by him!”


Ever feel bad using the wrong pronoun? Now, you don’t have to! Feel safe by optionally letting others know your preferred pronoun.

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This will appear as an optional field when:

  • Registering
  • Visiting your profile
  • Within your “profile card” (clicking your name/avatar to preview your profile)

Suggested by @Marshal - good idea!

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Can you enter whatever you want? I can already see someone putting “Apache Attack Helicopter”.

If you want to be an Apache Attack Helicopter, you do that. Although I wouldn’t get upset if “meta” pronouns will cause folks to fallback to a more-common one eheh.

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Hey he finally suggested it

Only took him a month and a half

I’m now officially a “they”.

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I should be an “it”

I hope there’s a better term one day: I heard Zie, but it’s not caught-on, yet. Probably because it makes the user sound like they have a German accent :stuck_out_tongue: We used to have a gender-neutral they for descriptions within in-game class cards, but it got confusing when dealing with multiple targets (they implies multiple, in most context)~

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My pronouns are katze, kat, and meow

You lied to me! You told me to call you meow and purr

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:partying_face:

On the other hand I don’t think anyone was calling you a “she” any time soon :stuck_out_tongue:

I love it. Thank you! <3

I’m going to take advantage of this

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Is this close enough to say I called it?

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Already happened

I mean if someone wants to do this (pretty unfunny imo ) joke that’s fine but if they get misgendered they cannot complain

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ANGRY APACHE ATTACK HELICOPTER NOISES

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I mean

This has literally never once bothered me ever

Presumably same for the people using it for jokes

And although I (obviously, considering I was the one who told you this was a thing) think it’s a handy feature, I also think that taking offense at people misgendering you is ultimately misplaced.

People make mistakes, correct them and move on. It’s only a problem if they decide to then be a dick about it, and at that point that says a lot more about them then it does about you.

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And while I do think it’s possible to see these jokes as being in poor taste, I think it’s entirely possible to see them as being done out of a feeling that listing pronouns is normal, which is the exact end goal.

So while I wouldn’t do it myself, out of choosing to see the best in people, I think I’ll be fine to take it as a sign that we’re just treating this as commonplace, rather than attempting to ostracize people that actually have reason to use such a field.

I got misgendered here and I was pretty pissed :wink: