• seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    49·
    6 months ago

    I can remember the Yahoo chat rooms of the 90’s. It’s always been doods cybering lesbian sex with each other.

  • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
    22·
    6 months ago

    As we used to say, “MMORPG means Many Men Online Role-playing Girls”.

    Which has went in a couple different directions, looking back.

  • Suavevillain@lemmy.world
    15·
    6 months ago

    There is a bad bitch inside of all of us lowkey. But at least in RPGs I like to be a chick because I usually like the clothing options.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
        0·
        6 months ago

        No, when the villain switches everyone’s custom avatars to their irl bodies, one girl couple you saw in an earlier scene is revealed to both be dudes to both dude’s surprise. I think there’s another scene a few episodes later showing both dudes still hanging out with each other. Just background stuff.

    • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world
      9·
      6 months ago

      I often play RPGs as a female character, as a means of stepping outside of myself and actually, you know, role-playing. But I seldom play online games, and do not try to convince anyone that I’m a woman irl.

      Still, it’s interesting how people assume that because I’ve chosen to spend my game time watching a female avatar run about, I must be a woman. I’ve been in some sticky situations, but none thus far involving anyone claiming to be lesbian.

    • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      There are a few reasons I can think off:

      1. Trick people;
      2. Get items;
      3. egg Experimenting the thought of not being your current gender.

      But just like the anon described, it’s one of the first two.

      • nikaaa@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        also some minor mental illnesses

        I don’t like to call it “mental illnesses” because it makes it look like it’s a property of the person; however, it is a property of society:

      • shneancy@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        honestly when i was a kid i always picked male characters (despite being afab) because “the clothes looked better”, fast forward a couple of years, i transitioned to male and i realised i used video games as my main escape from worsening gender dysphoria

          • TheSlad@sh.itjust.works
            0·
            6 months ago

            Girls just have better clothes in general. I like clothes shopping with my daughter all the outfits and dresses are so cute and fun, theres so much variety! Clothes shopping for my son is such a bore :/

            For reference I am dad, and theyre both in elementary school.

            • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              Men’s clothing has better pockets tho. We need to normalize big pockets on all clothing. Also normalize pink men’s clothing to make it less boring

        • AbsentBird@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          I knew a guy who used that exact same reasoning to play female characters. It’s funny how the way you want to look in a videogame can sort of tap into subconscious desires sometimes.

          “Obviously I couldn’t dress like that IRL because of gender rules, but since I can choose my gender in this game…”

          It’s sort of like The Button thought experiment.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          I genuinely wonder whether generation of people who played female avatars in MMOs to get free stuff has put the seed of TERFdom and assorted other anti-trans stereotypes into a generation of people’s brains.

          • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 months ago

            Nah. transpanic jokes are way older then that. The reveal at the end of the first Ace Ventura movie is an example of that. Good thing the second movie is way better.

            If anything, guys playing as girls in MMOs would have softened the idea of trans people to a lot of people who would have never thought much about it.

            • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              That’s… a good reason why when I watch Ace Ventura, I skip the first one and pretend there’s no third one.

              • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
                1·
                6 months ago

                Honestly, even disregarding the reveal at the end of the first one, the second one is still better. It just takes the concept farther and has a better location. I don’t even think most people know there’s a third movie.

            • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
              0·
              6 months ago

              A lot of the 4chan-esque toxicity around trans people is some mix of taboo horniness and misogynist commoditization of femininity.

              I don’t think either encourage trans-inclusiveness. The very term “Trap” implies trans people are attempting to exploit other people through their presentation.

              • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
                1·
                6 months ago

                I’ve always thought of “Trap” as cross dressing with malicious intent. Not term to describe trans people, but it’s not something I consider a hill worth dying on.

                My idea is that “cross dressing” MMO players are just seeding the idea gender non-conformity into the player base’s mind. Not that they’re pro-trans activists.

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
        11·
        6 months ago

        On the internet, anyone who claims to be a woman is really a man. Anyone who claims to be a man is really a child. Anyone who claims to be a child is really an FBI agent.

      • elxeno@lemm.ee
        1·
        6 months ago

        Expected this to be higher on urban dictionary, it’s on the end of 2nd page.

    • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago
      Small headcanon:

      Everyone (that doesn’t has a revealed gender) online is a woman until proven otherwise.

      • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        6 months ago

        I am a happily being a guy but I identified with Samuel in that story more than I ever would have guessed would have been possible. I have always been jealous of how easy it is for women to make friends and how tender their friendship are. I have never gotten along with macho guys and multiple times in my life people thought I was gay (I am only attracted to women, I just want tender friendships like women have with each other)…