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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • 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.