Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.37.67.51-20140912021948/@comment-2103639-20140913194715

You are referred to as "they" because there isn't a string, or query, that requests your gender. The only query that they have, is your first name. Don't forget, not everyone does their surname as their Facebok profile, so you'd be called   if they had it, but they are trying to personalise it (via your first/Christian name)  alone on that score. However, because CC is a game, there is text dialogue that has already been scripted, regardless of which user/their gender. It can be hard work to code (and create mass-memory blocks for names, genders and so forth). I believe that this is why they allow you to change genders, because that's already available, and only requires the  and then clothing or so is  or similar. I don't know, I'm not a gamer, but my experience with SWF (aka Adobe Flash) files are that they take up a lot of space. Imput data would be difficult to maintain, with a lot of users... Not sure if that helps, my (female) friend, but I hope it does...