Stephen. Him l Warcraft l Warframe l Starcraft l . 24 fine-art student main EU AD. WRA US. Posting art
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When a man plays a female character Them: ew! When a woman plays a male character Them: Im ok with that. Bruh.
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Hmm. There's a lot of different ways to read this as dissonance, but I don't think it's ALWAYS dissonant.
Obviously there. Not all are going to find out your gender in game most i met didnt even bother. but it is something that happens and is anoying.
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I mean, there's the chauvinist read, where "you're forfeiting your manliness to be a woman? How abhorrent!!" mixed with "you're asserting your manliness despite your womanly shortcomings? I RESPECT YOU!" There's the lopsided homophobia read too, which is p straightforward...
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... but then there's the "being safe on the internet" read where pretending to be a dude is patently a less fraught environment than inviting the scrutiny of being a woman on the internet.
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