because even if warlock is generally thought to be a male, the same is generally true for a witch and females. Books like harry potter in which witch is are female magicians, and the fact that they are all written in masculine form anyway, ALSO that witch could apply to warlock or wizard, makes changing the name irrelevant. I learned French in middle school and when a group includes people in both genders, "they" would be masculine and the same should apply to this.
I'm not sure how gender - specific English is with the whole masculin as generalisation thing (it's not my native language) but in German we have the same conversation, one side wants to be inclusive and makes the writing more complicated (in german its mostly endings - Hexe would be female, Hexer would be male etc. while oftentimes male is used as the generalisation), while the other doesn't get what all the fuss is about and doesn't want to do it.
I'm not sure how far to go here with it, but I think it isn't too much trouble to try and at least make it clear that DnD is a game so inclusive on all fronts ("race", gender, sexual and romantic orientation, age, religion and all that) that maybe a preface wouldn't be wrong that declares the game to be open for everyone. Whether or not to change the names of classes so everyone can feel represented I don't have a finalised opinion yet. But pls feel included everyone!
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because even if warlock is generally thought to be a male, the same is generally true for a witch and females. Books like harry potter in which witch is are female magicians, and the fact that they are all written in masculine form anyway, ALSO that witch could apply to warlock or wizard, makes changing the name irrelevant. I learned French in middle school and when a group includes people in both genders, "they" would be masculine and the same should apply to this.
I'm not sure how gender - specific English is with the whole masculin as generalisation thing (it's not my native language) but in German we have the same conversation, one side wants to be inclusive and makes the writing more complicated (in german its mostly endings - Hexe would be female, Hexer would be male etc. while oftentimes male is used as the generalisation), while the other doesn't get what all the fuss is about and doesn't want to do it.
I'm not sure how far to go here with it, but I think it isn't too much trouble to try and at least make it clear that DnD is a game so inclusive on all fronts ("race", gender, sexual and romantic orientation, age, religion and all that) that maybe a preface wouldn't be wrong that declares the game to be open for everyone. Whether or not to change the names of classes so everyone can feel represented I don't have a finalised opinion yet. But pls feel included everyone!