A four-gender system would be pretty fucking cool, and not unheard of in societies

Whoa, I never thought to connect that with gender, but it makes perfect sense! I think I read that the Air Nomads were entirely gender-egalitarian. Of their four temples, it was said that South and East were for priests and West and North were for priestesses, but it would indeed be totally fucking cool if each was for one gender.

I'm sure I'm not helping you make the choice easier. :p I'm trans, my automatic impulse with genderswap is to think about trans and alternative gender structures.

My own thinking, by contrast, is almost painfully binary so it'll be interesting to try and broaden my perspective. I can think of masculine, feminine, and non-binary. I guess non-binary comprises genderfluid, genderqueer, agender etc.? Maybe genderfluid could be the third category, and the fourth... hmm, agender or pangender? I'm looking up various nonbinary genders but most of them seem to refer to trans* people.

PS: by the way, I randomly found a local paper for Chinese expatriats, and there was an article about the simplification of the Chinese writing system and much pearl-clutching over it.

Change never goes over well, huh? And yet it's something people take for granted these days. I guess it's the same story every time.