One of the most problematic parts of this horrible game is the ability for players to upload their own “skins” – essentially, each player can create a character for themselves in simple photo editing apps such as photoshop. This means that the selection of characters is limited only by the players’ imaginations. On the surface, this seems to be a positive of the game, but it turns out that it is not.
This unlimited customization dangerously blurs the boundaries of gender and sex, and, especially considering the predominantly young player base of Minecraft, can be very confusing in terms of gender. One of these confused young people is my son, now 21 years old, who, it turns out, had been using the default “girl” skin of Minecraft, often shown in marketing alongside a more fitting masculine character. While this is not concerning on its own, having done so since the age of 11 will surely have contributed to his gender confusion.
I guess every game now has to have a male protagonist. Because if playing a female character confuses young boys’ genderes, surely playing a mal characte will certainly not confuse young girls in their gender identities.
Or maybe all video game characters have to be androgynous.
Or something, idk never understand ppl like this parent.
Oh, in this part of the world, it’s not a picture of the birth certificate but of their genitalia. Ignore the pedophilic over and undertones of requiring children to show their genitals to adults(read: men typically because women shouldn’t be in places of power, obvs) who can confirm that they appear to be the correct set for what is being requested. Fondling might be necessary to make sure they aren’t prosthetics.
This is serious discussion that my state has been trying to get into law to prevent people from using “the wrong bathroom” or “gaining an advantage in sports”. Fuck I hate this timeline
I love how the paragraph opened with how anyone can upload their own skins, and use simple photo editing and have unlimited creative freedom. But then in the back half of the second paragraph they reveal that their kid has been using the default female character the whole time. So none of that customization stuff anyway, the game said “boy or girl” on boot, they picked “girl”, and that’s that.
Alex isn’t even an explicitly female skin either. It’s literally just Jeb without a beard, and most of the default skins outside of Steve are quite gender neutral.
I hope this doesn’t come across as too semantic, but I dunno, I bet you can understand them. They’re just stupid! They will do anything to avoid blaming themselves, accepting they were wrong, or simply accepting their daughter. It’s gotta be that got dang vidya game’s fault! Everyone knows that games have been indoctrinating children into devil worship since at least as far back as the invention of D&D!
Understanding them is easy. It’s empathizing with them that is damn near impossible
I’ve been playing Tomb Raider since I was 7. First TR2, then TR3, and TR4. Lara Croft led me by the hand through middle school. It took years of watching her wiggle her butt in cramped spaces for the spell to take effect. By the time I entered high school, the vicious kuffars at Core Design had a hold of me : I was certain I was a murderous bourgeois british girl loosely based on Indiana Jones. I even asked my mom to make me a costume, complete with foam guns.
Because if playing a female character confuses young boys’ genderes, surely playing a mal characte will certainly not confuse young girls in their gender identities.
You see, that’s the neat part: this would never even occur to them. The thought that there could potentially be such a thing as trans men doesn’t even occur to these people. And when it does, they think of them as poor misguided victims, because of course women would jealously desire to become men, the superior sex. Everybody wants to be a man, obviously.
One of the reasons that they’re so obsessed with trans women is that the very concept that someone would actually prefer to be a woman shakes the foundations of their patriarchal view of the world and its rigid gender binary.
these people will confess their child’s immeasurable stupidity before accepting maybe you can’t just kinda turn trans from looking at and playing as girls. well, maybe if he stopped looking at vaugely feminine coded video game skins and started looking at men like a real cis straight man he would have turned out just fine!
“oh no! my child saw two men kiss for one (1) second! will he have his entire sense of human society and social interaction annihilated irrecoverably for the rest of his life and turn gay caused by his inherited inability to process incoming information, leading to an immediate internalization of anything?”
It has toggles to change to third person in the front and the back, and your skin is shown in the inventory. Additionally you see your hand when not holding an item. The hand has two thicknesses for the “Steve” model and the thinner “Alex” model (they are not called male/female, you can make your skin to fit with the one of your choosing).
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I guess every game now has to have a male protagonist. Because if playing a female character confuses young boys’ genderes, surely playing a mal characte will certainly not confuse young girls in their gender identities.
Or maybe all video game characters have to be androgynous.
Or something, idk never understand ppl like this parent.
playing a pokémon game in the world where this parent got what they want:
“are you a boy? or are you a girl? please upload a picture of your birth certificate”
Oh, in this part of the world, it’s not a picture of the birth certificate but of their genitalia. Ignore the pedophilic over and undertones of requiring children to show their genitals to adults(read: men typically because women shouldn’t be in places of power, obvs) who can confirm that they appear to be the correct set for what is being requested. Fondling might be necessary to make sure they aren’t prosthetics.
This is serious discussion that my state has been trying to get into law to prevent people from using “the wrong bathroom” or “gaining an advantage in sports”. Fuck I hate this timeline
I love how the paragraph opened with how anyone can upload their own skins, and use simple photo editing and have unlimited creative freedom. But then in the back half of the second paragraph they reveal that their kid has been using the default female character the whole time. So none of that customization stuff anyway, the game said “boy or girl” on boot, they picked “girl”, and that’s that.
Alex isn’t even an explicitly female skin either. It’s literally just Jeb without a beard, and most of the default skins outside of Steve are quite gender neutral.
Even Steve is “supposed to be gender neutral” by some official accounts.
Of course the interpretation is up to the player.
I am mostly here dying over “more fitting masculine character” when talking about a fucking series of 5 rectangular prisms.
I hope this doesn’t come across as too semantic, but I dunno, I bet you can understand them. They’re just stupid! They will do anything to avoid blaming themselves, accepting they were wrong, or simply accepting their daughter. It’s gotta be that got dang vidya game’s fault! Everyone knows that games have been indoctrinating children into devil worship since at least as far back as the invention of D&D!
Understanding them is easy. It’s empathizing with them that is damn near impossible
No, no, you don’t understand. Girls play girls games, boys play boys games. /s
I’ve been playing Tomb Raider since I was 7. First TR2, then TR3, and TR4. Lara Croft led me by the hand through middle school. It took years of watching her wiggle her butt in cramped spaces for the spell to take effect. By the time I entered high school, the vicious kuffars at Core Design had a hold of me : I was certain I was a murderous bourgeois british girl loosely based on Indiana Jones. I even asked my mom to make me a costume, complete with foam guns.
Then I started playing Crash Bandicoot …
You see, that’s the neat part: this would never even occur to them. The thought that there could potentially be such a thing as trans men doesn’t even occur to these people. And when it does, they think of them as poor misguided victims, because of course women would jealously desire to become men, the superior sex. Everybody wants to be a man, obviously.
One of the reasons that they’re so obsessed with trans women is that the very concept that someone would actually prefer to be a woman shakes the foundations of their patriarchal view of the world and its rigid gender binary.
It’s PacMAN, not PacWOMAN!
these people will confess their child’s immeasurable stupidity before accepting maybe you can’t just kinda turn trans from looking at and playing as girls. well, maybe if he stopped looking at vaugely feminine coded video game skins and started looking at men like a real cis straight man he would have turned out just fine!
“oh no! my child saw two men kiss for one (1) second! will he have his entire sense of human society and social interaction annihilated irrecoverably for the rest of his life and turn gay caused by his inherited inability to process incoming information, leading to an immediate internalization of anything?”
Great now I’m picturing my father blaming my transition on me being too attracted to women
It’s been a long time since I played it but isn’t minecraft first person? It’s only other players who would see you skin.
It has toggles to change to third person in the front and the back, and your skin is shown in the inventory. Additionally you see your hand when not holding an item. The hand has two thicknesses for the “Steve” model and the thinner “Alex” model (they are not called male/female, you can make your skin to fit with the one of your choosing).
You can choose to play third-person if you really want.
They think young kids have photoshop?
Lmfao no way this isn’t satire