[ SECRET POST #2481 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2481 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[game of thrones]


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[Star Trek, Sleepy Hollow, Elementary]


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[Junjou Romantica]


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06. [SPOILERS for Percy Jackson]



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07. [WARNING for suicide/self-harm]

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

OP didn't say that. Just said they're his particular "hot button."

[(Anonymous)]

It's more likely OP is female, just pointing that out. A whole lot of female players don't mention their gender and get assumed to be men.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

Especially if you play with a male avatar. People constantly think I'm a guy because my avatar is male and my handle is gender-neutral.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

I did hesitate in using the male pronoun - I should have left my reference to OP ungendered.

[elialshadowpine]

Hell, I have made specific mentions of my gender and still had people assume I was male! I mean, I suppose mentioning of menstrual bleeding isn't necessarily proof someone is female, but I'm pretty damned sure they weren't considering trans people. I still remember the "OMG, Vera's a GIRL?" the first time I got on TS. (They were perfectly nice and accepting! Just, totally shocked that apparently, yes, women swear and some of us like ladies too and will totally get in on the hot celebrity discussions...)

[diet_poison]

Being misgendered is one of my big pet peeves x___x and that includes people generally assuming that Anonymous Internet Person is male because male is default. I don't pull any of the GAMER GRRRRL shit but if someone uses the wrong pronoun with me I will sure as hell correct them. (Hopefully it will not be a big deal - they're say "oh sorry" and we'll move on. That's usually what happens.)

[elialshadowpine]

Mine, too. It's the only time it's happened within guild, and I really don't know how that particular guy managed to miss it because we talked fairly frequently. It doesn't help that the classes I tend to play aren't ones that were stereotypically female. That guild was about half women but probably 2/3 of the women played healers. I was one of the few who was DPS/tank, and have been a tank almost entirely since early Wrath.

So, if I'm doing LFD or whatnot, I'm almost always assumed to be male, because I'm the tank! Despite that in... *thinks*... every raid group I've been in since ICC has had only women tanks. (It wasn't planned that way, it just happened.) But tanks are guys, don'tcha know? SIGH.

(If the group in LFD has been absolutely silent, or has been dick-ish but not to the point that I would drop, I usually keep my mouth shut at the assumption. If they've been talkative and nice (which I only seem to ever see happen if I have people from my own server in LFD) then I correct them, and it almost always goes okay. If otherwise, though, there's unfortunately a good chance of prickishness, which I just don't want to deal with.)

[diet_poison]

Yeah - different response types. I'm the kind of person who will bull my way through any conflict because it's really important to me that people do not have the wrong idea. Male-default mindsets are annoying and dumb and both contribute to and result from sexism in gaming. But then I am definitely not the conflict-avoidant type at all. In fact I can be really pushy sometimes... :s

Basically, I'll risk the prickishness. If it ends up being so horrible I can't deal with it, well, then I didn't really want to play with them anyway. But that's usually not what happens.