>>48370405Isn't kind of demeaning to always refer to your Pokemon as 'it?' Especially if you know the sex of your Pokemon?
I mean think about it, who refers to their pet as an 'it?' I wouldn't trust the guy who does. 'It' is something you call a wild animal of an unspecified gender, your pet gets the hes and shes depending on their junk downstairs.
I get that Gen I didn't specify the genders of Pokemon and that wasn't a thing until Gen II, and it wasn't until Gen IV that they really decided to give Pokemon sexual dimorphism. But at this point I feel like Pokemon should be hes or shes. I'm not even one of these people to make stinkers about people's pronouns like the they/them crowd, honestly if anything the 'it' pronoun should be reserved for those fucks but still. They do it in the anime when we know for a fact that at least Ash's Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charizard, Butterfree, Snorlax, Tauros, Tododile, Heracross, Sceptile, Glalie, Infernape, Staraptor, Gible, Oshawott, Pignite, Leavanny, Krookodile, Scraggy, Palpitoad, Greninja, Hawlucha, Noivern, Rowlet, Lycanroc, and Mr. Mime are all males. And for his female Pokemon we only have Bayleef, Snivy, and Unfezant, the Aipom he traded to Dawn was a female too. Why aren't they referred to as such?
And yes I looked through all of Ash's Pokemon for this. Wiki tried to say Staraptor's gender is unknown but I can clearly see he's a male.
