Why is everyone saying clove is trans or non-binary? Valorant never confirmed and the only reason they used "they" pronouns in game was to conceal the agent's gender (I assume)
They/them has been used as a singular and plural pronoun for a long long time
It's used when you don't know the gender of the person you're referring to, or in the case, they don't identify with a gender.
For example
"Do you know Alex" (Alex is a name for both men and women)
"No, I haven't heard of them"
I understand, my family comes from Norway, so I learned Norwegian alongside English growing up and the idea of gender and pronouns is so different between the two languages.
I have my own issues with the whole pronoun discourse that happens online all the time, but the whole They/Them being exclusively plural issue particularly annoys me since it's just not how English works.
same in my language
and it's really strange to use "them" as singular, especially since it's already has other meaning (plural 'you' means respect)
it's such an american thing, only kids in my school cried when they were getting called he a 'she' or she a 'he', no one ever cared about mispronouncing someone
post probably getting 404'd but
why is this being used as some weird marketing front? like why is it important?
To this day the best representation of the LGBT community I've seen is cyberpunk, you know why? because claire being trans is subtle and never pushed as her main character trait, they write her like any other character without focusing on her being trans wich is GREAT. and meanwhile here we have riot leakers coming out with this news ahead of anything else, just wow.
because having more representation in games means that people are more comfortable with themselves as it's seen as something normal, they may learn about the nonbinary identity and feel like its something that represents them, helps to make people more open minded especially kids who are coming into the game and learning about this stuff maybe for the first time
and anyone who says "it doesn't matter", well, cool you can just ignore it lol. its not going to affect how you play the game and if someone gets that pissy over a fictional character in a game being nonbinary then you can uninstall it
where are the mad people.
Jesus chirst, my entire twitter feed is in influencers complaining about "community backlash" about the new agent but i swear to god i did not see a single negative comment\post except a joke about permaban for misgendering. That's it.
Like show me where is the hate. Yes people are anticipating another westjett post and there 100% are a some looney pepople, but there is no "community backlash". People are just imagining issues for farm while community is OVERWHELMENGLY accepting and encouraging.
considering that valorant has a MORE ACCEPTING COMMUNITY compared to others, its no wonder it has overwhelming support
westjett is a creator with an audience that parrots what he says, anything he says negatively about this his fans will take that run with it and I'm surprised you just haven't seen anything