Agreed wholly. I’m not just saying that because I’m a girl now. ;)

I don’t see why gender is important, what does it matter on the internet? lol

Not knowing gender means you will treat everyone equally which can only be a good thing imo.

Wow I figured people who are learning a second language would be more aware of the nuances involved between genders and language. It has nothing to do with treating people equally. It has to do with interpretation of text. When a guy says the exact same thing as a female, it can mean something quite different, and just knowing the source can help interpret that meaning.

For instance a female might say something and it be meant as a completely harmless comment, but you know if it were coming from a guy they are being a dick, or vice versa.

In voice chat it wouldn’t matter as you can usually tell that type of thing by inflection and tone. But you don’t get that through text.

That said some girls talk (type) like guys and vice versa as well, but they are exceptions to the rule, and you’ll find that a lot of people will naturally be offended by those people in certain situations until they realize that they are not intentionally provoking you, that’s just the way they communicate.

I had to deal with a lot of these problems myself on a message board that I ran, and gender tags helped a lot.

But obviously if people don’t want them…

Since you’re a girl Hey, I like you and maybe we can get together and get under dem sheetz. Maybe clap dem cheekz.

Do the grownup unomsaiyan.

Let me teach you about the birds and the bees nomsaiyan

literally:

“a bee is an invertebrate, while a bird is a vertebrate”

But on the quote, it’s only sexist in the way that it’s true. Particularly in regards to Japanese speech.

For instance a female might say something and it be meant as a completely harmless comment, but you know if it were coming from a guy they are being a dick, or vice versa.

The only way it’s sexist is from the point of view that males and females are completely the same in mannerisms, which of course they are not.

It’s more obvious in Japanese, but it’s definitely there in English as well.

I had to deal with this from a speaking point of view with my ESL students as well. One of the guys in my class complained to me that many people thought he was gay based on how he talked, as he learned English from his sister, and she sounded a bit like a valley girl. So I had to work hard at pointing out the things in his speech patterns that sounded feminine. Which is a separate, but related issue to what I’m talking about here.

Like totally!

On a serious note, I just like to know whether I’m speaking to a male or a female. It’s like seeing those people on the street and you don’t know whether they are a man or a woman – damn annoying.

To put you out of your misery, I am a dude and Kaona is a female.

I think we should have race icons. That way we will no how to interpret things based on the commenter’s ethnic background. Also, I’m curios to see what they would look like.  Maybe as you progress through the chapters your little ethnic avatar (ethnitar?) could slowly turn yellow and get slanty-eyed! Now that’s progress.