by Lissar » October 14th, 2009, 4:10 pm
As a woman on this site, I constantly find myself disappointed by files that COULD be gender-neutral, but aren't. So many files, including, believe it or not, feminization files, could be for people of any sex, but due to highly gendered language, they're really only effective for men. And while I know that plenty of people are going to say, well, ignore those parts! that's unfair and ineffective (I snap out of trance as soon as I hear something I don't like). It just feels lazy and privileged.
Like Lobotaru says, there are curse gay and curse straight files that are ONLY for men, and the curse bisexual file that's been suggested on the voting page? Also only for men (which makes very little sense). While I understand that many files are more effective if they're directed at one of the two mainstream sexes, I don't understand why one file (male) gets made while the female version is ignored.
So I guess that's two major problems I find as a woman here on this site: that many files that could be gender-neutral or not (many of them look gender neutral based on the description, but aren't, which wastes my time), and many files that have been made for men only have no women only counterparts.