Villagers getting Gender Wrong?

[John Wick]

This is weird.

Freya refers to Epona as HIM.

WHY?

 

[Bluebellie]

That’s weird. I usually see snooty refer to uchi females as he since they are tomboyish. But epona is Peppy right? So that doesn’t make sense. Maybe snootys just call everyone him.

 

[John Wick]

Yep, Epona is Peppy.
You would think the makers would get that right. ^_^

 

[SnakeEater]

This is weird.

Freya refers to Epona as HIM.

WHY?

Have you actually considered that Freya might have asked Epona for xer's preferred gender pronoun? Bigot.

 

[AccfSally]

It's an error in the game.

 

[John Wick]

Have you actually considered that Freya might have asked Epona for xer's preferred gender pronoun? Bigot.

Trust me.
I'm no bigot. :-/

 

[CaramelCookie]

The original japaense text probably used a gender neutral pronoun (aitsu or koitsu) for that specific line and when translating they didn't take this in account and used "he", so if it's a female villager in the random pick, it'll come out wrong. That's probably why they usually say "our neighbor will be happy" and such, keeping the neutral speech. That line must have slipped when translating.

 

[ESkill]

That happened to me once with a new villager who just moved in. I was really confused because I thought they were a female but were referred to as him. I thought maybe I was mistaken but, yeah they were totally a girl and it only happened once. I wish I could remember who it was but it was awhile ago.

 

[Ably.Saucey]

I've never had it happen to me, but I think it's a translator glitch or something.

 

[Loubelle]

I had a villager call Bluebear a him once :[ That didn?t help when I was having trouble determining if she was a boy or a girl xD