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

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    924·
    16 天前

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

  • madjo@piefed.socialEnglish
    562·
    16 天前

    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.

    • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
      24·
      16 天前

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

  • Siethron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    16 天前

    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.

    • Focal@pawb.socialEnglish
      17·
      16 天前

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

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      15 天前

      Do it while on vacation in Montreal during pride. You don’t have to transition to have some fun on occasion. 🤗

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      15 天前

      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.

  • PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.caEnglish
    231·
    16 天前

    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.

    • VinnyDaCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      16 天前

      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.

      • PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        15 天前

        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.

    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      15 天前

      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.

  • Hadriscus@jlai.luEnglish
    19·
    16 天前

    I typically play as a girl when given the choice but I don’t think that’s anything to read into lol

  • jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    19·
    16 天前

    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) …

        • festnt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          16 天前

          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

          • jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            3·
            16 天前

            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.

  • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    17·
    16 天前

    Nah I only really play as girls to balance out getting seen as a “guy” so much IRL. Neither the “girl” build nor the “guy” build really have the kind of gameplay I’m looking for. What I really wanted to play as is something that makes people wonder which one I am. But when the random rolls in the character creator spit you out growing to 6’2" with a build like a fridge in a fursuit that build ain’t something you can really respec into. So I’m stuck with “Giant Dad” basically.

    • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      12·
      16 天前

      Big removed are real and valid, if your physical shape is all that keeps you back.

      That being said there’s a lotta ways to be happy, so long as you find one that doesn’t hurt others that’s whats important.

      • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        15 天前

        Oh they absolutely are. No my problem is that I’m nonbinary and with my particular flavor I don’t really want to be gendered as either. But with my build I feel like the only ways I really have a chance of being gendered are Bear Dad, Drag artist, and maybe a tall Soccer Mom depending on how well a hypothetical transition might go. None of those are bad, just as much as I don’t identify with being male the same goes for fully being seen as female too.

        So I figure at least for now if I’m gonna be uncomfortable I’ll take the devil I know, then I’ll affirm my identity in other ways that make me happy.

    • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      16 天前

      I feel that vibe so hard.

      Getting gendered (at all sometimes) can feel like being stabbed with a fork dipped in sriracha. Worse when people reeeeally lean into it, for some god forsaken reason.

      Video games can be a pleasant temporary escape from that.

      • GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        15 天前

        Yeah, as a 6’3 skinny uterus haver, I’d love for an option to skip all the public restroom cutscenes irl, thanks!

  • ButteryMonkey@piefed.socialEnglish
    193·
    16 天前

    Playing as a girl irl sucks pretty hard though. At least in games being a female character doesn’t often have major implications on how much you can do and how interactions play out… it’s just a full-on 1-1 replacement that has no bearing on anything but aesthetics.