Comment on Anon pretends to be a girl online

• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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      • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That was the conclusion I had even before I came out as trans

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  • WammKD@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For whatever reason, I always remembered that being in the second film and not the first; I haven’t seen either since childhood, though, so they both just kind of blend together.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve always thought of “Trap” as cross dressing with malicious intent. Not term to describe trans people, but it’s not 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.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s a much more benevolent way to look at it. But I tended not to see the heavily adolescent male MMO community view men playing as women anything but

        cross dressing with malicious intent

        This, combined with the “No girls on the Internet” stigma tended to drive crassness and hostility towards all women avatars.

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• InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll be your runescape girlfriend if you’ll trim my armor set for free

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