Re: This title needs to go
The term "playgirl" does exist, albeit more rarely.
This means that by applying the word "playboy" to all users, there is some level of misgendering going on. It is similar to the sort of thing which says that formal English requires "he", or used to at least, when in formal mode. An example: "A person is best approached when his mind is calm" would be correct, but it is a natural bias toward the male gender term.
Microaggressions can be unintentional. I agree there. There is no doubt in my mind that absolutely no harm was indended with the term "playroom playboy". I am not attempting to infer intentional harm.
But where I stand by what I said is in the assertion that this is, in fact, a microaggression, albeit a fairly small one.
Discrimination exists in this instance because transgender individuals are often misgendered, either by mistake or on purpose, and given that the nature of coming out means switching genders, this is a constant callback to their gender identity. For the average person, having a title which refers to you (and everyone else with the same title) as male doesn't really mean much, because it's not personal. However, if your gender identity is something that you are fighting for, something that is being challenged, then having a designation applied to you which refers to the wrong gender is, on some level, discriminatory.
I also fail to see how changing Haily's rank, and hers alone, actually opens the door for problems.
1. I am willing to do this myself, which also means I'm willing to take on the responsibility of doing it more if it needs to be done
2. The change to Haily's rank hurts no one and may help her, while standing pat helps no one and may cause her some level of upset
3. The effort necessary for the change is so ridiculously low that refusing it feels very much like a denial in bad faith
4. I see Haily as an edge case, but I would rather set the precedent that we are willing to deal with edge cases than deny her based on this fact
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