As we used to say, “MMORPG means Many Men Online Role-playing Girls”.
Which has went in a couple different directions, looking back.
Ah, the Internet. A place where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.
And the moderators have beards. Women too
GIRL is also an acronym for Guy In Real Life.
There are no girls on the internet
The Internet: Where men are men, women are men and the children are FBI agents.
We’ve always been trans-inclusive.
I genuinely wonder whether generation of people who played female avatars in MMOs to get free stuff has put the seed of TERFdom and assorted other anti-trans stereotypes into a generation of people’s brains.
Nah. transpanic jokes are way older then that. The reveal at the end of the first Ace Ventura movie is an example of that. Good thing the second movie is way better.
If anything, guys playing as girls in MMOs would have softened the idea of trans people to a lot of people who would have never thought much about it.
That’s… a good reason why when I watch Ace Ventura, I skip the first one and pretend there’s no third one.
Honestly, even disregarding the reveal at the end of the first one, the second one is still better. It just takes the concept farther and has a better location. I don’t even think most people know there’s a third movie.
That was the conclusion I had even before I came out as trans
A lot of the 4chan-esque toxicity around trans people is some mix of taboo horniness and misogynist commoditization of femininity.
I don’t think either encourage trans-inclusiveness. The very term “Trap” implies trans people are attempting to exploit other people through their presentation.
I’ve always thought of “Trap” as cross dressing with malicious intent. Not term to describe trans people, but it’s not something I consider a hill worth dying on.
My idea is that “cross dressing” MMO players are just seeding the idea gender non-conformity into the player base’s mind. Not that they’re pro-trans activists.
On the internet, anyone who claims to be a woman is really a man. Anyone who claims to be a man is really a child. Anyone who claims to be a child is really an FBI agent.
Girl is internet acronym for Guy In Real Life
I can remember the Yahoo chat rooms of the 90’s. It’s always been doods cybering lesbian sex with each other.
The ones who kinda knew but kept doing it 🙈🙈💀💀
I can confirm it happened at least once in MSN too 😬
why would you do this to me david
I put on my robe and wizard hat
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There are a few reasons I can think off:
- Trick people;
- Get items;
eggExperimenting the thought of not being your current gender.
But just like the anon described, it’s one of the first two.
just to get items
also some minor mental illnesses but we don’t talk about that
also some minor mental illnesses
I don’t like to call it “mental illnesses” because it makes it look like it’s a property of the person; however, it is a property of society:
honestly when i was a kid i always picked male characters (despite being afab) because “the clothes looked better”, fast forward a couple of years, i transitioned to male and i realised i used video games as my main escape from worsening gender dysphoria
I knew a guy who used that exact same reasoning to play female characters. It’s funny how the way you want to look in a videogame can sort of tap into subconscious desires sometimes.
“Obviously I couldn’t dress like that IRL because of gender rules, but since I can choose my gender in this game…”
It’s sort of like The Button thought experiment.
same as an amab I always used to play women cause they got better clothes. I am not trans tho, I mean probably not.
Girls just have better clothes in general. I like clothes shopping with my daughter all the outfits and dresses are so cute and fun, theres so much variety! Clothes shopping for my son is such a bore :/
For reference I am dad, and theyre both in elementary school.
Men’s clothing has better pockets tho. We need to normalize big pockets on all clothing. Also normalize pink men’s clothing to make it less boring
Eventually they’ll both think a little more deeply about why they “”“pretended”“” to be girls online. 🤔 😊
There’s a reason transbian is a word
Any transbian places to recommend?
my place? 😏
Yes Please 😊 💖 !
Loneliness
Name checks out
I’m just gonna leave this here in case it changes somebody’s life: https://medium.com/the-identity-current/plight-of-the-transbian-4ab1a048b09b
This was a sweet, wonderful read, thank you
I am a happily being a guy but I identified with Samuel in that story more than I ever would have guessed would have been possible. I have always been jealous of how easy it is for women to make friends and how tender their friendship are. I have never gotten along with macho guys and multiple times in my life people thought I was gay (I am only attracted to women, I just want tender friendships like women have with each other)…
Welcome to the internet
Have a look around…
anything that brain of yours can think of can be found…
We’ve got mountains of content
Some better, some worse
But none of it is interesting to me
And you’re the first!
There is a bad bitch inside of all of us lowkey. But at least in RPGs I like to be a chick because I usually like the clothing options.
I’ve always said, if you’re going to stare at someone’s ass for the next 200 hours…
I feel like there are so many dudes who’d fall in love if only both parties were women, and that’s beautiful…
Why is that beautiful? Sounds pretty obvious to me. If some of my dude friends were actually women, I’d love to be in a relationship with them. They’re cool dudes.
All the straight boys you know have probably at some poiot been devastated to remember they are tecnnically not lesbians, because dick.
I had someone tell me “He/Him Lesbians” were a thing recently and they weren’t referring to FTM Transguys either (Which I was relieved by as that would be a horribly offensive thing to call that crowd since a lesbian is a woman who exclusively is attracted to other women, and FTMs are NOT women.) Somedays I just don’t know if I’m getting too old and set in my ways or if the world has just lost the plot.
These days I just kinda “nod” at things and go along with them even if I don’t agree or understand, within reason of course. (i’m not going to let anyone take fucking dieting advice from a breatharian)
Unpopular opinion : once you start blurring the lines of what gender is, the straightness based definitions of things go out the window.
An FTM and MTF relationship is something alright. None of my business.
but, linguistically speaking, I don’t think straight as a label applies to it, even though it’s male + female.
it ties into the difference between someone being pansexual, and bisexual.
Seriously though
The feminine (and, by extension, lesbian) is constantly portrayed in such a sweet and gentle way and masculine us always so rough that I can’t help but say “lesbian relationships to me, please”
And I’m a guy.
Where tf did we lose those cute gentle hetero relationships and representation? Okay there’s GFD, but barely anyone notices it and it’s strictly about women taking the lead and mostly sexual, which is only one side of the story.
Pretending to be a girl for free handouts in MMOs was peak metagaming.
I had a friend get a fucking voice changer just to keep the lies going when he did that in D&Donline. It still irritates me that it actually worked. Dude was rolling in gifts and invites.
