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:If you believe in the "retcon" principle, when a game made later comes out contradicting an earlier game, the newer game takes precedence. It's not official Nintendo policy, but if you want to think of Birdo as female, you can argue that she was "retconned" into a girl. {{User:Stumpers/sig}} 21:08, 11 June 2008 (EDT) | :If you believe in the "retcon" principle, when a game made later comes out contradicting an earlier game, the newer game takes precedence. It's not official Nintendo policy, but if you want to think of Birdo as female, you can argue that she was "retconned" into a girl. {{User:Stumpers/sig}} 21:08, 11 June 2008 (EDT) | ||
::Hey, if Nintendo intended for Birdo to be male they would refer to Birdo as "he" in her Mario Kart Wii bio. But they don't-- they refer to her as "she". Mario Strikers Charged is a game which has ''the Birdo species'' in it. If they refer to those Birdos as male, it says nothing about the individual character Birdo. So therefore, we should refer to Birdo as female in the artice. We can keep the gender controversy section, though. {{User:CrystalYoshi/sig}} 12:41, 12 June 2008 (EDT) | ::Hey, if Nintendo intended for Birdo to be male they would refer to Birdo as "he" in her Mario Kart Wii bio. But they don't-- they refer to her as "she". Mario Strikers Charged is a game which has ''the Birdo species'' in it. If they refer to those Birdos as male, it says nothing about the individual character Birdo. So therefore, we should refer to Birdo as female in the artice. We can keep the gender controversy section, though. {{User:CrystalYoshi/sig}} 12:41, 12 June 2008 (EDT) | ||
:::There seems to be some confusion here over gender and sex. Gender is psychological and determined most by culture, while sex is biologically determined. Whether her sex is male or female (or whether she has any biological sex at all), is | :::There seems to be some confusion here over gender and sex. Gender is psychological and determined most by culture, while sex is biologically determined. Whether her sex is male or female (or whether she has any biological sex at all), is debatable, but she obviously identifies herself as female-gendered. It is for this reason I think Birdo/Birdetta should be referred to as "she" [[User:Goomb-omb|Goomb-omb]] 19:07, 12 June 2008 (EDT) | ||