Should there be feminine imperial ranks/titles?

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Its been a couple of years sincethis was raised this initially, but I've been gilded into action by seeing someone on here, who I respect immensley for their contriutions, having "duchess" in their cmdr's description in their signature...

Don't get me wrong, I am an alpha male beardy bloke IRL, and in game I play a similar character, indeed my holo me could double as a photofit for me. However, I am acutely ware that there are a lot of players who are either a female IRL and their character in game reflects this, or their CMDR is female for RP reasons, regardless, they get masculine imperial titles as ranks. I'm hereby campaigning to get this changed. I know some might argue this isjust some other social justice warrior campaign, its not, I am something of a "conservative" / traditionalist, IRL I've actually been described as a cave man. Oothers might argue "but its Emperor Arissa Lavigny-Duval, not Emporeress", to whcih I say two years ago hald the galaxy mourned not "Lord" Kahina Loren, but "Lady" Kahina Loren.

How hard would it be, or unreasonable to ask frontier to put a simple checkbox in holo-me upon selection of a female body, asking if the CMDR would prefer male or female imperial titles, and then have that applied to the CMDR's status, eg: (rank 7, if gender =M; "Baron", if gender =F; "Baronness") ?

Personally as a middle aged bloke ranked "king" I look forward to being made a mockery of by many an ambitious lady/baroness/duchess etc... But if those women, either in game women or IRL women do not get their female ranks its no skin of my RP nose.

So how am I proposing to "make it so"? by keeping the thread bubbling near the surface of this section of the forum. Normally I welcome discourse on "my" threads, however I'm going to put it this way; if the only comments are those chiming in to say they support the idea of feminine versions of the ranks being made available, how close to the top it remains will be an indicator of how well supported an idea it is purporting. However, negative comments in new posts from people chiming in to say they disagree with the notions of the opening post of this thread and why they feel so inclined, will actually have the same effect and "bump" the thread back to the surface. So in essence folk chiming in here to say "FDev don't do it because X,Y or Z" are shooting themselves in the foot by keeping the thread current. If you don't like the idea, stay quiet, and the idea will die in a deafening silence.
Great idea immensely support this idea good luck +REP
 
OP, "GET WOKE, GO BROKE" is a binary system in Elite, go check it out...them aliens still probing the carcasses of Beta males trying to get l a i d, along with the carcasses of GAMESPOT, GILLETTE, WASHINGTON POST, CNN, <insert any virtue signalling entity>, etc.

in B4 Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro wrecks us all
 
There was some discussion a long while back about the limited, binary choices for commander genders, the choice of an XX commander or an XY commander, and a bit of lamenting because there is no ZZ option.

That discussion never really went anywhere. While I don’t think it would be particularly difficult to accommodate titles based on commander gender selection, I also don’t see it adding any particular value to game play, since those titles (Imperial) and ranks (Federation) are honorary anyways, and not otherwise referenced in game.

If any meaningful game play were built around them, then this might become a more pertanent matter.
 
OP, "GET WOKE, GO BROKE" is a binary system in Elite, go check it out...them aliens still probing the carcasses of Beta males trying to get l a i d, along with the carcasses of GAMESPOT, GILLETTE, WASHINGTON POST, CNN, <insert any virtue signalling entity>, etc.

in B4 Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro wrecks us all
Does this actually mean anything? It makes no sense to me however I try to parse it.
I get the feeling, though I may be wrong, that you're trying to insult someone, although who that is, I am at a loss to guess.
 
Does this actually mean anything? It makes no sense to me however I try to parse it.
I get the feeling, though I may be wrong, that you're trying to insult someone, although who that is, I am at a loss to guess.
It's got the phrase 'virtue signalling' in it, so it isn't born of rational thought. I wouldn't worry about it.
 
Does this actually mean anything? It makes no sense to me however I try to parse it.
I get the feeling, though I may be wrong, that you're trying to insult someone, although who that is, I am at a loss to guess.

Even with aphasia I can’t find the hidden meaning here. Must be some of that teenage raised-by-the-Internet speak that actually means less than:
“t’was brillig and the silthy troves did gyre and gimbal in the wabe.”
 
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Even with aphasia I can’t find the hidden meaning here. Must be some of that teenage raised-by-the-Internet speak that actually means less than:
“t’was brillig and the silthy troves did gyre and gimbal in the wabe.”
It's a political thing, I really don't want politics in my sports or games do you?
 
wow so there are more genders than Heinz varieties, and more testosterone in this one thread than the Chippendales dressing room lol, and I can't believe I didn't get the invite. as far as I am aware the ranks could do with a little bit of a fix but if it stays the same won't bother me, I very rarely stay in the bubble long enough to be addressed by title. just on the return journey from beagle point, next is the formidine rift via hutton orbital.

at the end of the day titles do not make the man/woman/non binary/attack helicopter/cucumber/thargoid

P.S. Thargoids are all female, and there is only 4 ranks: Queen/Princess/Drone/Food
 
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