Board Thread:Decisions/@comment-24045334-20150812214449

So, recently I saw on the Balkan Blast Remix page that people were saying that the dancers were male.The thing is, there is no proof that the dancers gender's are male. I changed it to "All Unknown" It stayed like that for a couple days until someone changed it back to male saying: "The dancers have male arms+legs so they are male" Please look at this photo of BBR. You cannot tell that the dancers genders. After that I started thinking about how quick we always are to give the dancers a gender and how a lot of it is through guesswork via stereotype and not actual BTS proof. I thought about making a post about it, be ended up not doing it. Well just today, something happened. The BTS of I'm An Albatraoz was revealed and the dancer looks '''male. '''We had gone so quick to say that the dancer is female because the dancer looks feminine, but it was actually male. In the BTT with Alkis and Veronique they use She/Her pronouns, however they are talking about the character of the song, not the dancer. In plays/movies people have played characters that weren't the same gender as them, especially in animation. So what i'm saying is that unless we have BTS proof, we shouldn't list the dancers gender. Body shape is better proof, but that is still based on body-type gender stereotypes. Another option is instead of saying "dancers gender" we can use "character's gender" if the creators use pronouns for the character. 