MindTraveller

joined 5 months ago
[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You left your SI in the link

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

You can't vote away fascism, but you can vote to delay it another day and buy more time for the revolution.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

What I'm hearing right now is that you think my preference to have a character that looks like me in video games isn't worth pursuing because of camel toes, and because a troll might conceivably use the same features that help me, to make a character you don't like. I already told you the nonbinary perspective on this issue. I'd just like to take a moment before I offer counterarguments to ask... what on earth is your intention with offering these arguments?

Now, as to camel toes: I cannot remember ever seeing a visible camel toe on a character in a video game. Maybe this is just because I don't make a habit of staring at the crotches of women and femmes in games. But if I did notice a camel toe in a video game that was not about sex, my first thought would be "what the fuck game developers" and I would immediately be on the look out for misogyny in other aspects of the game. Maybe I'm completely off base here and I've actually been playing characters with camel toes this entire time and not realised it because I'm not a creep. But in that case, revealing this information to me would increase the gender dysphoria I feel in these games. Why do you want to do that?

And as for trolls? I saw someone in this thread respond to you say they like bearded ladies. You might have read that as a joke, but it wasn't. Popular streamer JoCat is also a fan of bearded ladies, and I know this because he was cancelled by a bunch of TERFs for playing one in Baldur's Gate while singing a controversial song. He decided to quit making his YouTube videos because of the harassment. JoCat is not a transphobe. He's used his platform to raise money for LGBTQ charities in the past, and he was previously embedded quite firmly in the queer D&D youtubers community, friends with a lot of queer people who had nothing but positive things to say about him. I think that you're confusing your trauma around transphobic representations with other genuine queer people who just wanna live as themselves, and you're circling back around to transphobia as a result.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Don't you know what a he/him lesbian is?

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Unless you've installed some very particular mods, the body types in most video games do not contain genitals, and therefore are not definitively male nor female.

I have boobs and a butt. My body looks like "Body B" from these games. It is not a female body. It does not have a vagina. I have a surgery planned, and that surgery will not result in a vagina. What I'm hearing right now is that you think my body is female. And that makes me feel uncomfortable because I do not want a female body. A feminine body, I am happy with, but not female. I choose "Body B" in these games because it looks like my body, which I am happy with. I do not choose it because it's "female". I feel a little bit of pain every time I have to click on female.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

OP simply doesn't believe in gender nonconforming people and thinks we're all alt-right trolls. It's a very privileged take.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

What if you're a dummy thicc femboy with boyboobs?

You might think this identity is just a meme, but it's not. And while some percentage of that is queer people secure in their identities, some of it is also questioning trans girls who aren't comfortable selecting "female" yet but will try out exploring femininity through the "femboy" meme.

As an enby, I'll pick body B most of the time, but I don't like being called female. I'll put up with it in an old game, but if a studio decides to not misgender me, I'm nothing but happy. I agree 100% that more options would be nice. But assuming that game companies aren't going to spend money on artists to make diverse bodies, why yuck the yum I experience when a game at least tries to not misgender me?

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Article requires an email address to read. Shit journalism.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

What is it with terrible DreamWorks sequels lately? They pulled the same shit with Kung Fu Panda 4!

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Liberalism is capitalist. Neoliberalism especially so. Capitalism is associated with various problems like homelessness, commodified relationships and hobbies, price gouging, poor healthcare, and systemic discrimination. Also over time liberalism leads to fascism as capitalism breaks down, poverty increases, and people become radicalised. A society which permits the accumulation of wealth and the use of wealth to gain wealth, will inevitably form oligopolies, monopolies, oligarchies, and eventually monogarchy. This is anti-democracy and anti-human.

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