Re: should these be reworded?
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:12:04AM +0300, Lynoure Braakman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > "Our priority is our users" might have originally been "Our priority is
> > our male users", not that I think Dev's did it intentionally. So any
> > attempt to add a 'wishlist' feature in a way that makes our software
> > more inclusive of 'all' of our users, sounds like a great suggestion.
>
> While it is nice to be able to choose the main character gender (and other
> features, as I don't identify well with thin blondes either) it seems weird
> to jump into that conclusion. I mean, books nearly never allow that choice
> at all, there is just both kind of books and no one goes "Eeek, they are
> discriminating against women by having a male protagonist".
>
> In my opinion, the best way to go about it regarding the game mentioned
> would be for a technically savvy woman to make a patch allowing gender
> choice.
Are you suggesting making a fork with the gender option or trying to get
the patch submitted and accepted upstream? I think the latter is what
other folks suggested.
-K
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