pic of my cat bcus she’s cute and it’s my post I can do what I want

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    I like to play as a girl because i like to look at girls. I don’t think that makes me trans.

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      Plus, we don’t all want to be the object of our fascination.

      Fascinated with race car drivers? Have you tried actually being one?

      Fascinated with criminals? Have you tried actually being one?

      Fascinated with doctors? Have you tried actually being one?

      Fascinated with hitmen? Have you tried actually being one?

      Fascinated with serial killers? Have you tried actually being one?

      Yeah, not the best ideas.

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      That’s fair, that’s part of the reason I kinda dislike memes like this. I’m sure some people have had an easy transition, but myself and a lot of trans people I know have had very difficult ones. I lost a parent over it, which resulted in some time spent very housing insecure in college. I’ve faced professional and personal discrimination. It’s been hard.

      And all that matters because it provides serious context to the statement that transitioning was the best decision I ever made. After years of struggling it was the necessary first piece to getting my life together, because it made me able to actually be present in my life and made me not too depressed to do things like study, apply for jobs, and form friendships with new people. It gave me a life worth living at a cost that was nebulous and felt insurmountable at the time I agreed to it.

      I much prefer outreach in the form of pointing out that dysphoria doesn’t go away without transitioning and by depicting the reality of happy trans people, even those of us who’ve been disowned.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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      Do it while on vacation in Montreal during pride. You don’t have to transition to have some fun on occasion. 🤗

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    Nah, that’s not my reason for playing as a girl in video games. I just don’t like hearing dudes grunt. And I prefer to look at a pretty girl kick ass.

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      I used to play as female characters because the guys never had good customisation, “Oh I can be buzzcut Shepard or crewcut Shepard. Hmmmm”.

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    Nah I like playing girls in games because they’re cute and feminine but in real life I want to be a boy who is cute and fem. I don’t want to be a girl.

    It’s actually a kind of a bummer most games don’t let you play as a femboy where you look like a girl mostly but people refer to you as a boy in-game.

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      It’s actually a kind of a bummer most games don’t let you play as a femboy where you look like a girl mostly but people refer to you as a boy in-game.

      I felt this. Most games don’t have any options for more slender, fem looking men at all. It’s always hairy or muscly.

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      absolutely this, we need more femboy options in games! IMO character creators should start with androgynous as a default, and then you can add masc or fem characteristics from there.

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        Link never struck me as a femboy, at least not in the games I played. Newest Zelda game I ever played was Skyward Sword and I didn’t play it very much.

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    Yeah, I always play characters who are not like me because I don’t want to watch my onscreen character sit at a desk for years and slowly wither into a bitter husk.

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    Why? The character on the screen is not me. I do not relate to them. I would never play myself.

    I play tropes. Something that is different from what I know in real life. Like I would never pick human if there is an option. Because humans are boring.

    Next playthrough it might be something completely different.

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      I like being a badass warrior chick weilding a huge two handed sword in full plate.

      I do not want to be a woman.

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    I like playing as a dragon in video games. If only there was a drug that would let me grow wings and breathe fire in the estates of billionaires.

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      Well… There are drugs that’ll let you THINK you’re doing all that, and that’s almost as good, right?

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    Not for me! I’m fairly gender affirmed and confident on it. Tho, I’m the very definition vanilla, incredibly cishet.

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    I mean I would totally play as a girl IRL if it would be as easy as in videogames and without the negative consequences (thanks sexism and transmisia) …

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          that’s interesting. though i do like phobia meaning both fear and hatred, as that makes it an opposite of philia, which means love, so can also be seen as acceptance and liking a lot

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            I think (at least in Germany not sure about English speaking countries) a phobia is an officially recognised psychological condition so using it for bigots (who are not ill, just awful) could be viewed kinda ableist.