>>13605778>>13605808>Not being part of a country whose language forces you to give a specific gender to everything, including genderless creatures and objectsWe have to make gender assumptions based on the looks and sound of the name, making it so that saying what a person feels is the "wrong" gender for a Pokémon becomes somewhat awkward.
This was even more gut-based back in Gen I, since Pokémon other than Nidoran didn't have set genders.
