Sabaton?! I'm guessing Akagi-chan wants to put on "Metal Machine".
More likely "Bismarck", the Sabaton song about how awesome the Bismarck was.
Which actually kinda makes me wonder how AL Bismarck feels about the real world Bismarck being male, making her one of the only known genderswapped characters.
More likely "Bismarck", the Sabaton song about how awesome the Bismarck was.
Which actually kinda makes me wonder how AL Bismarck feels about the real world Bismarck being male, making her one of the only known genderswapped characters.
I assume you mean the ship, and not the person she was named after, seeing as dozens of ships were named after real life males. I only know of one person that insisted on referring to the KMS Bismarck as a male. Everyone else uses female pronouns like any other ship.
I assume you mean the ship, and not the person she was named after, seeing as dozens of ships were named after real life males. I only know of one person that insisted on referring to the KMS Bismarck as a male. Everyone else uses female pronouns like any other ship.
I am referring to the ship, the ship correctly referred to with male pronouns.
I'm pretty sure only the captain referred to it with male pronouns.
Correct, he said it once and then the crew only did so in his presence. Otherwise the ship was refereed to with either gender neutral or female pronouns by her crew.
More likely "Bismarck", the Sabaton song about how awesome the Bismarck was.
Which actually kinda makes me wonder how AL Bismarck feels about the real world Bismarck being male, making her one of the only known genderswapped characters.
She can't be that since Bismarck is a personification of the ship and not the chancellor she was named after.
I am referring to the ship, the ship correctly referred to with male pronouns.
Except "she" is the correct pronoun for Bismark, despite what that idiot of a captain thought. He believed that Bismarck should be considered male because she was the most powerful battleship Germany ever made despite the fact that there were at least EIGHT battleships in the world that had more firepower, and most of those also had radar that didn't get ruined when the rifles fired.
Except "she" is the correct pronoun for Bismark, despite what that idiot of a captain thought. He believed that Bismarck should be considered male because she was the most powerful battleship Germany ever made despite the fact that there were at least EIGHT battleships in the world that had more firepower, and most of those also had radar that didn't get ruined when the rifles fired.
So no, Bismarck is a she, not a he.
Bismarck, like every ship ever built anywhere, is an inanimate object. It is not a he, nor a she, it is a THING.
Bismarck, like every ship ever built anywhere, is an inanimate object. It is not a he, nor a she, it is a THING.
Ships have always historically used female pronouns and that trend continues today. Try having this argument with real sailors and see how much they care.
Ships have always historically used female pronouns and that trend continues today. Try having this argument with real sailors and see how much they care.
Which would only show how some people are stupidly attached to inanimate objects as if they were alive.
We play a game that makes characters out of these ships because it's fun and yostar can relatively easily write amusing or interesting scenarios based on their service histories.
Which would only show how some people are stupidly attached to inanimate objects as if they were alive.
We play a game that makes characters out of these ships because it's fun and yostar can relatively easily write amusing or interesting scenarios based on their service histories.
Considering that ship is the only thing between you and a watery grave, it made sense for sailors to treat their vessels with the utmost respect. Treating them like a lady one might say.
That tradition continues even today, with very few languages making the exception. Ships are either women or gendered after who they're named after.
More likely "Bismarck", the Sabaton song about how awesome the Bismarck was.
Which actually kinda makes me wonder how AL Bismarck feels about the real world Bismarck being male, making her one of the only known genderswapped characters.
Eh, that's a point of contention. As far as it is to my knowledge only two people ever called IRL Bismarck male during that time; the ship's CO and the CO of the submarine U-556. Everyone else both their crews and elsewise called her "she". This of course excludes Naval Historians and Sabaton's retellings of those two men, has referred to Bismarck as the traditional "she" across the board. Personally I side with maintaining her as herself due to the alleged reasoning of the COs for calling Bismarck "him" just being a pitiful attempt to somehow snub Hitler, as opposed to trying to make any noble statements regarding naval ship naming conventions or really anything else really naval related. The part that actually matters for ship's. I don't mind bucking traditional conventions if there is a sound reasoning for doing so, however being politically petty isn't sound, it's just sad.
