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May 31, 2004
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Gender error in diplomacy.

A very minor, but noticeable bug. Every character is still assumed to be male in 1.03. In diplomatic pop-up windows, such as having an alliance offered to you, it states something along the lines of "The Countess of Northampton expresses his desire to form an alliance".
 
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Woz Early said:
A very minor, but noticeable bug. Every character is still assumed to be male in 1.03. In diplomatic pop-up windows, such as having an alliance offered to you, it states something along the lines of "The Countess of Northampton expresses his desire to form an alliance".


that is simply because there are only female rulers at startup. and as player vassals. Since they make such a minority of the map, this was left to be noticed by you. No offense, girls:)
 
True that female rulers are in the minority, but the event text could be made gender neutral without losing any of its sense by changing to 'expresses the desire to form an alliance'. In fact, it sounds more natural in English to use the definite article here, than the possessive pronoun.

On a similar topic, IIRC the text of the event wherein a courtier complains about being unemployed, refers to the courtier as it. While ruling aristocrats might generally have considered themselves superior to their courtiers, I doubt that they often went so far as to think of them as animals or objects!