I’m not an egg anymore, but I found this meme I made several years ago when looking through an old hard drive and wanted to put it on Lemmy.
Image description: Top text says “Me: 100% totally cis male.” Bottom text says “Also me: A girl with girl stuff and girl hair and girl clothes.” The bottom part is actually an image of a Minecraft skin that is posted on Planet Minecraft.
Cis men like to play games as girls too though
Father, it’s a Speedrun strat I swear
I won’t make excuses, I do it because I like the feminine aesthetic, I think it looks cute. I don’t really know if feminine characters give an advatage in some games or not.
The fact that I haven’t realized sooner why playing all my games as a girl felt so great is astounding
When I was younger I always played all my games as a boy, but in every single one I hated the way my character looked. The few times I did play as a girl I really liked it. I’m also astonished at myself for not realizing sooner lol.
“Nice girl hair!”
How does this assume the viewer is trans femme? These content warnings in the title are so stupid
Also me: a girl
As far as I am aware, it is because lemmy has no flairs, and this makes it easier to look for memes with a specific audience.
I think what they mean is that trying to argue that a person playing a girl character makes them a girl, regardless of their identity is the part they don’t agree with. I agree with them on that (if that is the case) I do not believe that actions by a person can make one semantically trans, I believe (as do most decent people) that the way a person identifies is what determines gender identity, and trying to go against that is hurtful and invalidating.
I acknowledge that this meme is a person calling themselves out, but it sets a chilling precedent for invalidating Gender Non-conforming people, who almost certainly will do things like this that step way outside of gender stereotypes, yet they still fully identify as male. It invalidates them because it’s in a sense saying that their actions make the way they identify invalid, that’s what saying someone is trans in-denial does, it invalidates their current identity based on their actions.
It’s just a meme I made like 3 or 4 years ago because I saw a skin on pmc with a funny name. I really didn’t put that much effort into it. This has a CW for assuming the viewer is transfem because I am transfem and it’s from my perspective when I was an egg. Also I don’t think this meme at all invalidates gender non-conforming people who identify as male. Just because it was intended for a different audience, it doesn’t mean they don’t exist or are invalid. Would making a meme like this targeting gender non-conforming people who identify as male invalidate trans women?
I think what they mean is that trying to argue that a person playing a girl character makes them a girl, regardless of their identity is the part they don’t agree with.
I agree with your statement, playing as a girl character is not what makes you irl a girl. However, this meme isn’t about the character you play as. It’s about the amusing title that the Minecraft skin has, and it’s not a skin I made, so I didn’t choose the title.
It invalidates them because it’s in a sense saying that their actions make the way they identify invalid, that’s what saying someone is trans in-denial does, it invalidates their current identity based on their actions
You do realize that is egg_irl, right? This whole community is about being trans in-denial.
and also kinda reinforces gender stereotypes
I feel like this meme does the exact opposite. Top text essentially says “On the surface I’m a guy” and bottom text essentially says “but actually I’m a girl”. At least to me that doesn’t seem cisnormative.
@FirstMajesticComet dawg… its not that deep 😭😭😭
fun story: way back when i was younger (i dunno like 8-13) i used to have this velvet red dress that i absolutely loved wearing when i did anything even though i didnt know what trans was.
i stíll wish i had that dress :(
