She's the Arbiter, not an arbiter. It's a title, not a job.
She's the Arbiter, not an arbiter. It's a title, not a job.
As a female, Arbitress just sounds flat out stupid. Arbiter sounds so much better.
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The english language rarely genders descriptors like these, especially if it's a solitary role where no further distinction is required.
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There's no reason to have to put gender on the Arbiter's title.
It's not a profession where there's any sort of differentiation between genders, nor is it a title that enjoys any sort of widespread representation in the Shadowlands. There's only one Arbiter, and only one being capable of filling that role (as far as we know). That the being filling that role is female has zero meaning.
Also, different tastes. Personally, I don't think 'Arbitress' sounds very cool at all. Not any cooler than 'Arbiter' anyway.
Do we call female Hunters Huntress or just Hunters?
Fixed that for you.
As for priestess, a normal female priest is rarely called priestess in modern english either. Priestess in fantasy usually refers to the shrine/temple maiden kind one might find in antiquity. I think the distinction is mainly made by nelfs in WoW, since they historically were the ones that had gender exclusive priests. Same with the huntress example.
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You don't even know what her actual gender is. So no.
Why does he/she/it have a gender anyways?
It's not like it's a living being. The arbiter won't ever reproduce. The binary distinction between male and female only applies to most higher animals (humans included), because that was nature's way of ensuring optimal evolution.
In WoW, most (all?) living beings were created by the titans and cursed by the old gods. Somewhere along the way lies the explanation for sexual dimorphism on Azeroth, but I don't think there's a canon explanation for it.
But why the arbiter should have a gender will probably never adressed in lore. It should be "it", but it's humanoid looking. And that is the problem:
Everything that resembles a human will be classified by its appearance first: Has it boobs? Yes? Okay, "she". No? "He". If it's not clear, then gender is determinded by voice. Now, does the arbiter look very feminin? Arguably so, but not definitly. So assigning a gender to something very androgyn looking makes really no sense at first glance, but I'm sure the arbiter will be voiceacted, so it has to have a gender (or player instictively give it one, based on it's voice). Meaning, its gender will have absolutely no effect and was just chosen based on the voice it is given.
That means, that Arbiter (generic masculine) is its name, because its gender does not matter at all for anything other than voiceacting (and because humans will always categorize something humanoid into male or female).
Im for calling em "Arbiperson" or "Arbibeing" so nobody gets offended.
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Yeah, this applies to positions of power and offices, as well. From the priest example, there can be positions such as Head Priest, or there an be Cardinal, Deacon, Reverend, etc... and there is no gender assumption with the roles as far as the title goes. Generic positions tend to have gender-specific descriptors, such as priest/priestess, host/hostess, and so forth. However, even the generic position references don't necessarily even bother with pointing out the gender of the person, as it generally doesn't (and shouldn't) matter what gender they are.
I'd imagine lore-wise The Arbiter wouldn't care about using "correct" pronouns and gender-specific terminology anyways. If this wasn't the case, my hopes for SL would probably sink pretty low.
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