You know what iirks me? If this is such an issue here alone, in the gearbox safe space, which you are correct in saying the company has the right to moderate how they see fit, how come gearbox themselves put so little effort in to making the character seem gender neutral or ambiguous?
You all state the little symbol like its this huge thing, yet at the same time gearbox went out of there way to give fl4k a distinctly masculine sounding voice, which could have been avoided. Then, he was given a class name using the term master, which is historically a Male pronoun. That’s not up for debate, it’s a fact of the language. Beast tamer would have fit and been ambiguous, Beast trainer would have fit and been ambiguous, hell, many many terms could have been used aptly, BUT they chose to use a male pronoun.
And then there is the fact that you talk about respecting a minority. At it’s core, how respectful do you think it is to make the ONE non-bindary character a robot? Not even human? To me that could just as easily be taken as gearbox taking a stance that being non-binary isn’t even a human trait.
The whole thing is littered with offenses, if you want to take a close look, by gearbox themselves. And yet here you all try and take a very foolish moral high ground that has done nothing but lead to an increase in negative attention for the game, more boycotting, and general distaste by the vast majority of your fan base on every forum imaginable. So if what you are doing is right, how come almost everyone is speaking out against it?
When you think you are right, and almost everyone else tells you you are wrong, perhaps it’s you who needs to change their way of thinking.
