It just don't seem very themely.
Examples:
Harry says, "An average grizzled dude dumped a truckload of baking soda down the sewer. He's ransoming the mix 50,000c - he gonna flood it with vinegar, says we all suffocate. But I say it never work."
Janeen yells, "HELP! A handsome cool guy touched me!"
However, I see ambients on SIC making IC reports using straight up short descriptions very frequently so it kind of seems staff has already made a call here. At some point at least. Though I don't like doing the same, I think anyone who does want to do this has a precedent to support their choice.
Scripts do it because there's no other easy way of doing it. The script is there to get your attention to the event, and hope you go investigate, not to necessarily give you full information on who dun it.
If you can, try use actual descriptions. If not, heh.
I would never personally use the changeable gendered appears/shortdescs because they really have no identifying value and they sound clunky as hell to me, but if someone told me they'd been attacked by some beefy granny or something I wouldn't be upset or anything. There's only so much to go on sometimes and while it's cool if players are creative with it, I don't feel strongly about players not workshopping creative language for everything just to relay information.
A short average man -> He was short, average build, masculine looking.
An amazonian woman -> She was tall and buff.
That kinda thing.
Personally I've adopted spicing things up as I mentioned in my post, but that's just to keep immersion a bit more locked down.
