Thank you - but what I also said was that I don't think "Hooker" is necessarily a gendered term. Sex workers can be women or men, male or female.Maniac wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 8:23 am@Jamie - I read what you wrote. I absolutely see you as a progressive and an ally. But I still think arguments based on history, tradition, etc whilst being valid shouldn’t be the clincher. As I suggest above let’s run with the alternative gender for role names for 60+ games and then see if the community want to go full gender neutral or revert to the traditional role names or indeed run with the alternative role names. We are the community, we’re not tied to anything.
On the other hand, it is perhaps a somewhat pejorative term. I am not sure on this. Like I said, several of my friends are sex workers. None of them would use the term "hooker" except in a joking way, but again, like I said, that's as much because I think they'd see it as an American term.
I would be entirely in favour of simply using the word "Roleblocker". It's entirely neutral and it describes the role accurately and clearly.
