[-] FMC8456@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's definitely more complicated than cis or trans being a binary, I should know since I'm Isogender, neither cis nor trans. Not sure if gender modality is a spectrum though.

[-] FMC8456@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah she is a dummy, obviously believes strongly in gender stereotypes.

Actually I feel like I remember reading a news story where boys at an actual private school started wearing skirts in the summer because it was so hot and the dress code didn't allow for shorts, it was both as a form of protest and just because it was too hot to comfortably wear pants. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/teenage-boys-wear-skirts-to-school-to-protest-against-shorts-ban-in-heatwave-b1887321.html

[-] FMC8456@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

Gross, flair as NSFW or better yet, don't post this shit on a meme community in the first place.

[-] FMC8456@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

That is very true, there is no one universal experience. I didn't have a way of knowing for sure what the author's intent was since on it's own it could go either way and I have seen other people post messages that legitimately do claim to impose gender expectations on people in that kind of way. It's good to know that she didn't mean it that way, though it also is very sad that so many people continued to misinterpret her to the point that she had to stop posting.

[-] FMC8456@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Something important to remember is that even though the intention with games like that is to identify with the character you're creating people don't often play games as they are intended (if they did would modding games be as popular as it is?). So the argument framed in the 4th panel, despite it being framed as invalid or shaky is actually a valid argument because if people are using mechanics in ways that aren't intended, then it's only natural this would be one of them. Let's face it, not everyone identifies with the characters in the game and they may want to satiate their attraction rather than to identify as the character, this is a common sentiment in 3rd person games where the character is being looked at from the outside, AKA a perspective that isn't you.

Another thing about this is aesthetics, because people can like things that are seen as feminine without actually being girls, people like this who identify as male are femboys, and they are valid as they identify. Unfortunately most games out there which have the courtesy to offer the luxury of character creation, don't offer gender-nonconformity as well. So this is another reason to violate intended use case. So 2 and 3 are very much valid use cases.

All in all this isn't the worst thing but I'm not really a fan. There's many reasons someone can use avatars in games that are different from their own sex and gender, the way this is framed makes it seem like it automatically means that you must be trans. In addition this mentality is a double standard since it obviously never applied to the many female gamers before gender selection was implemented as widely as it is now, I mean them playing as a boy doesn't make them a boy now does it. Also the attitude of "oh ho ho that's not very cis of you" does not come across as respecting the egg prime directive very much, but also at the same time doesn't come across as outright disrespecting it.

[-] FMC8456@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

I think Bigender.

[-] FMC8456@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

I believe the term you're looking for is abrosexual, that's what it means for attractions to change (not saying genderfluid doesn't also apply here, I'm just giving the term that applies to sexuality).

[-] FMC8456@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Only transmascs I think.

I didn't know that, why is that anyway? Is there something wrong with being cute and being male?

[-] FMC8456@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I don't think so, I mean what's wrong with being cute anyways?

[-] FMC8456@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Nah, I don't like taking the bus, it's very slow and unreliable. I know it's because American cities are built wrong, but I still live in an American city that is so it's not feasible for me.

[-] FMC8456@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I've never seen or heard of it before, is it not sold in America?

[-] FMC8456@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Only for 4D shapes, for 3D shapes they get suck in the little alcove in the middle, they can't percieve or travel along the 4th dimension so that little part is almost like a space "inside". Of course there isn't a space inside in actuality, the 3D space just gives that illusion, but for objects bound to the 3D world it is essentially the inside for all intents and purposes.

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