What pronoun do you use to refer to Sheik?

[Jawile]

guyz

wat if zelda was a girl!!!!!?!?!?!!!?

 

[Uffe]

I just checked the text dump to make sure and yeah Ruto refers to Sheik as "young man" and "him". So yeah. Zelda's female but when she is presenting herself as a man (uh... magical sex-change or not...) it just makes more sense to call Sheik he.

I believe they did that so that the player wouldn't catch on that Sheik is really Zelda. Anyway:

Sheik's Gender

 

[n64king]

I believe they did that so that the player wouldn't catch on that Sheik is really Zelda. Anyway:

Sheik's Gender

Oh boy so that's where the thread restarts. That's really where this whole thread keeps going round and round.
Sheik = Zelda = Female
The reason they say Sheik is male is because it's Zelda in disguise and they don't know it's a her.
I mean I know the question is "what do you say", but we turned it into "what IS sheik" haha

 

[Hana-Nezumi]

I believe they did that so that the player wouldn't catch on that Sheik is really Zelda. Anyway:

Sheik's Gender

No it's because Zelda was in disguise as a man.

Why can't people understand how Zelda can be female but that Sheik is a separate male identity that she fabricated to conceal her true female identity? The dialog in the game makes that clear. You can use "she" to talk about things Zelda did while in disquise as Sheik but that doesn't make the character of Sheik a female. Zelda created the identity of "Sheik", and for some reason, probably to be a more convincing cover, she decided to make "Sheik" a man.

 

[oranges_ate_you]

I think people understand that she says shes male when shes sheik but they dont want to realize that shes still a female biologically because she is zelda. they want to have some stupid tumblr hippie extremist fight over gender rights that no one was asking for and doesnt even make sense in this case.

 

[Radagast]

The dialog in the game makes that clear.

But there's a few other things that make it clear that the dialog in the game is inaccurate

 

[Mephisto Pheles]

I think people understand that she says shes male when shes sheik but they dont want to realize that shes still a female biologically because she is zelda. they want to have some stupid tumblr hippie extremist fight over gender rights that no one was asking for and doesnt even make sense in this case.

You're at it again? Seriously?? :/

I'll say it again: biology does not determine ones gender.
I am "biologically female", but I am not a woman. I am a man.

People are not saying that Zelda is a man. They're merely stating that it's silly to call Sheik "she", because the character Sheik - that Zelda invented - is a man. Why call a male character "she"?

I quote my previous response:

Here, look at it as an "Actor and Character" sort of relationship - the actor in this case (Zelda) is a woman, but the character she plays (Shiek) is a man.
Now, imagine someone gets a role in a movie or play, who is a woman, but the character they're playing as is a man; Would you refer to the character as "she", just because of the actors gender?

 

[oranges_ate_you]

you cant say "you again" when ive been on this board more recently than you. so really we should be saying YOU AGAIN to you cause everyone disagreed with you like 10 times already get off the board if youre just gonna be a tumblr extremist.

 

[Mephisto Pheles]

you cant say "you again" when ive been on this board more recently than you. so really we should be saying YOU AGAIN to you cause everyone disagreed with you like 10 times already get off the board if youre just gonna be a tumblr extremist.

I can say "you again", because you were here previously saying the exact same thing. Therefore, you saying the same thing "again".

And no, I will not get off the board. I will not let your bigoted, elitist attitude go unnoticed. You want me to leave you alone?

Then stop going around acting like a jerk.

(And, by the way, people have disagreed with you, too. Several times. It's not like I'm the only one here with this opinion)

 

[Leopardfire]

She, since Zelda is Sheik, and she is a female. Or I would just use they.

 

[n64king]

You guys are idiots for fighting with them on every board. It's clearly a troll cause they attack everyone and post stupid things everywhere, you're arguing on this board and other boards for no reason and you're probably gonna get yourself in trouble if you keep fighting. Feel free to continue, but you look like a moron doing so. Especially on the "what age are you" board that was fairly dead and now is at the top.

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You look mad crazy everywhere trying to tell them what they should be doing when it's clear they have no intention on listening to anyone.

 

[oranges_ate_you]

im not trolling she is mini modding all over the place and that right she is an idiot she keeps fighting with me everywhere just cause she is wrong and no one shares her stupid opinion. shiek is a GIRL. more people said that on here than you did. i guess you have no leg to stand on so you have to go after grammar and other stupid things

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shes talking about who is more mature than who on the other thread wow such an adult

 

[Jawile]