Comment on Anon pretends to be a girl online
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI’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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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
This, combined with the “No girls on the Internet” stigma tended to drive crassness and hostility towards all women avatars.