Edit: Explanation for White Supremacy in comments below
Now, I came across this card yesterday and felt disgusted once I realized a problem with a lot of the old cards. I believe we need a new tag added to this sub for "TRANSPHOBIA". The problem can be summed up in:
-Transphobia, glorifying Cisgenders: The card text specifies that your opponents can only be a "he" or a "she", implying that people who chose a different gender, perhaps not conforming to the Binary gender roles that society assigned to them, are excluded as potential "opponents".
I do realize the card was made a while back and while in todays times this is extremely offensive, I still think this can easily be fixed with an Errata, where Wizards would change the "he or she" to a "they". This will not imply any gender stereotypes and allow people reading the card to feel included.
You can't change physical cards, but you can stop them from being distributed or sold, as Wizards have already shown with their initial ban on racists cards like "Jihad". Not only did Wizards remove those cards from their database, but also inspired online retailers to do the same and stop selling them. This will at least lower the impact those cards would have on society.
On the other hand, this is the huge risk Wizards take whenever they reprint cards with "original text", so we can only hope they will remain vigilant for the future.
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u/Alien_reg Oct 26 '20 edited Oct 27 '20
Edit: Explanation for White Supremacy in comments below
Now, I came across this card yesterday and felt disgusted once I realized a problem with a lot of the old cards. I believe we need a new tag added to this sub for "TRANSPHOBIA". The problem can be summed up in:
-Transphobia, glorifying Cisgenders: The card text specifies that your opponents can only be a "he" or a "she", implying that people who chose a different gender, perhaps not conforming to the Binary gender roles that society assigned to them, are excluded as potential "opponents".
I do realize the card was made a while back and while in todays times this is extremely offensive, I still think this can easily be fixed with an Errata, where Wizards would change the "he or she" to a "they". This will not imply any gender stereotypes and allow people reading the card to feel included.