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.
Ever technically minded, my son set up a multiplayer server to play with his boyfriend when they were 14 years old and just started dating. Unfortunately, due to Minecraft's neglectful failure to include any filters or safeguards against dangerous and confusing ideological statements, it served as a funnel for the two of them to encourage each other in their "transitions." Yes, that's right – my son's boyfriend is also gender confused. What's worse is that these two, who are perhaps the worst possible people for each other, are engaged to get married in a "lesbian" wedding later this fall. I, of course, was not invited. Heaven forbid I try to save my son from his horrible confusion.
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I, of course, was not invited.
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good lord i don't think i've ever posted that many Ls on the internet before. what a miserable person. i hope they get even sadder
Actually a very sweet story about a young transbian and her t4t girlfriend discovering themselves and finding love and acceptance online in secret from an unsupportive family
I was transed by Professor Oak asking me if I was a boy or a girl in Pokemon.
Rebranding "videogame violence is responsible for all the things we dislike" to "videogames including women as a character option is responsible for my child becoming trans".
I, of course, was not invited. Heaven forbid I try to save my son from his horrible confusion.
Get fucked.
This unlimited customization dangerously blurs the boundaries of gender and sex
In other words, “I want gender and sex to be the same thing, but I can’t unlearn that they’re different. And instead of accepting that fact, I’ve decided to be a huge a-hole.”
The only thing worse for a transphobe than gender being malleable despite them very much wishing that was not the case is "biological" sex being malleable as well.
The website is really fucking funny. The goofy acronym name and the fact that it has an entire category just titled SONS just makes it seem like something out a comedy
Also, as much as he tries to pin the blame for his child turning out trans on Minecraft and the ability to freely customise your avatar, the author gives the game away entirely here
This means that the selection of characters is limited only by the players' imaginations
My dude, the "gender confusion" was coming from inside the house all along
His "son" sounds like a transfem stereotype it's so obvious she's trans. And t4t, I'm so sorry these girls had to grow up around this dude.
Poor daughter, imagine having such a terrible parent.
Also to answer your question, back in my day you didn't get to choose your gender in many video games, so I don't know.
Edit: missgendered by mistake, sorry. Fixed.
Daughter* both the daughter and her gf are going to get married and she didn't invite her deadbeat transphobic parents.
This is a transphobic rant and you can safely assume they're misgendering their daughter
Half asleep mistake, thanks for catching that. Edited.
First blames the game for being single player, "if only she had played with the chuds online they would have shamed them into never coming out of the closet". Then says their daughter did set up a multiplayer server but because the game has no moderation (a complete misunderstanding of the game's infrastructure and how such a task could even be accomplished short of banning all chat directly, which wouldn't even work because out of game chat and voice clients still exist) and now "oh no the trans activists were waiting for a random Minecraft server with innocent child to pollute their minds with the thrill becoming a woman, and no I never supervised their play sessions, I was busy watching my own shows".
The whole thing screams the child is my property how dare it make decisions that I disagree with for their best interest. No I will not even talk to my child about what their going through they should just suck it up and get over it like we did in my day.
Just the idea that video games ought to limit your character's gender to the player's actual gender is so unhinged. I'm a cis man, and I often play female characters in RPGs. It has not transed me, and it has nothing to do with wanting to be a woman in real life. I just like playing different characters (and frequently the female voice actor in things like Bioware games is just way better).
I flop around depending on what game it is but I generally play a woman 60% of the time, if there's also an option for a short race like gnomes then that's absolutely going to be my plate wearing 2h axe character.
Back in my day it was simple. You were just a warrior, mage, or rogue. That is all it was. There was none of this multi-classing stuff.
Look everyone goes through a phase where they think a cantrip or two would be fun. It is, but you gotta come back to reality after you know. You have to grow up and do what society demands at some point.
That article is easily the funniest PITT has ever posted, I'm glad someone posted it here for all of us to laugh at collectively!
Here's another fun fact about PITT ("Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans", very funny acronym): about two years ago they decided they wanted their Wednesday posts to all come from detransitioners. That worked for maybe a month, but clearly they massively overestimated how many detransitioners would be willing to write shitty transphobic articles for their shitty transphobic newsletter. For another month or two Wednesdays just didn't have posts, until one Wednesday it was a normal post from another shitty parent and that's what it's been since. They just quietly dropped Detransitioner Wednesdays because they couldn't find people to write them. So funny.
They're calling it "Pokemon Crystal." What is going on?
