Villager gender confusion?

[Leen]

I don't think this is a "problem" nor is there a "confusion" about gender. I think this only reflects how much gender roles are enforced in our society. Unrelated to Animal Crossing, but, when I was younger, I used to think that Blues from Blues Clues was a boy, simply because she was blue. Gender is a spectrum and should be treated as such. Blue doesn't "belong" to boys nor does pink to girls.

Animal Crossing is a game with fictional characters. I think we should appreciate each villager as their own identity with their own cute personalities, rather than focusing on whether or not they're "female" or "male". Most villagers probably don't even fall towards one end of the gender spectrum or the other.

Everyone might not agree, but that's just my two cents. I say, embrace villagers as they are portrayed and have fun with it. It's a game full of animal villagers after all.

 

[Miii]

I thought Canberra was a boy for the longest time.

 

[AquaStrudel]

I always knew Stitches's personality was lazy but for some reason I always thought of him as girl.

 

[batterswing]

Not me, but my sister just got Pippy in her town after restarting, and was surprised to see that she was a girl.

 

[Fleshy]

I honestly never knew about the colour gendered speech bubble thing... wow.. go me. I also didn't realise that the personalities were gendered until I joined this forum, and I'd been playing for years and years, I guess there's just a lot I just don't pick up on!

but yeah honestly I never really even see the villagers as a gender unless it's super obvious. I don't know, probably because they're animals that I don't really see the gender as important at all idk

It's not my confusion, but my sister was adamant that Joan was a boy, I was like bro... no...c'mon....

 

[TheGreatBrain]

I thought Twiggy was a boy. I just recently learned she's a she. There's been quite a few that I thought were different genders. Then someone extremely rude told me about the pink and blue bubbles that surround their names. I just hadn't noticed it before. This person basically said I was stupid for not seeing that. It's kind of nice to see I'm not the only one. Lol.

 

[PigsAndBlankets]

I don't think this is a "problem" nor is there a "confusion" about gender. I think this only reflects how much gender roles are enforced in our society. Unrelated to Animal Crossing, but, when I was younger, I used to think that Blues from Blues Clues was a boy, simply because she was blue. Gender is a spectrum and should be treated as such. Blue doesn't "belong" to boys nor does pink to girls.

Animal Crossing is a game with fictional characters. I think we should appreciate each villager as their own identity with their own cute personalities, rather than focusing on whether or not they're "female" or "male". Most villagers probably don't even fall towards one end of the gender spectrum or the other.

Everyone might not agree, but that's just my two cents. I say, embrace villagers as they are portrayed and have fun with it. It's a game full of animal villagers after all.

I completely agree, it's nothing to take too seriously. I mean your own character can wear literally anything and look however you want them to, so for all we know the local penguin down the lane could have assumed I was a boy at some point.

 

[MJGTMKME123]

^^^Has anyone else had this problem? I had Bluebear for over a month thinking she was a guy (for some reason) until a villager referred to her as "she."

And just today, I just found out Marshal was a guy. Even though I've never seen him in-game, I've been seeing him around since I got the game, which was in December! What the heck?

Anyways, I was just wondering if I'm the only one who struggles with this even though the voices make it pretty obvious.

well i thought that sasha was a female but sasha is actually a male

 

[rocketspruggs]

I thought Pate and Tangy were both boys when I designed their houses in Happy Home Designer.

 

[Croconaw]

I thought Pippy was a boy. That's the only villager I have mistaken for the opposite gender.

 

[Shawna]

I vaguely remember thinking, truffles and tabby were guys this was a long time ago before I knew that the name tag colors were indications of their gender (well, except for new horizons, to which it is based on their color schemes, but this was before even New LEAF came out)

 

[Rainbowhorn]

I thought Pate was a boy

 

[Mr_Keroppi]

I know that in New Leaf, (I thiiink ACNH is the same but it might be based on personality now, I just never noticed lol) the villagers little name box when talking to them will either be pink or blue depending on their gender! Only for villagers though as special characters have green boxes!

Edit: ACNH is just a cute colored box that matches their character's palette

 

[Seastar]

I had this issue with Robin because I hadn't actually met her in game before. That was solved when I saw her in a dream town (or dream island? I forgot which game I was playing).