I love getting told that a literal slur used against trans people, isn't a slur, especially when it's literally being used against a trans character
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(TW transphobia) Sorry to vent here again, but it’s genuinely saddening how acceptable transphobia is in some of the large gaming subs
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I want to share a nice response I saw to a less nice situation;
At a big conference a couple of years back, a presenter was doing a live demo that involved (I think, my memory isn’t great) showing Bluetooth devices in the room.
Someone in the audience thought it would be clever to change their device name to something funny, and decided a transphobic slur was the best choice (I guess the presenter looked relatively Gender neutral. I have no idea what their gender was or if they were trans or whatever, it wasn’t relevant to the awesome talk they were giving).
The conference organiser saw this, stopped everything, brought the house lights up and demanded the guilty party leave before he’d allow the con to continue.
Long awkward silence ensues. But this glorious man just doubles down, says that he’s got all day to wait.
We all sit there looking at each other.
Eventually the perpetrator stood and left, and the talk resumed.
My esteem for the organiser, already high, is through the roof for how he took a stand like that.
We need a lot more intolerance of the intolerant IMO.
insane how they’re still butthurt over Brisket like get a life
And then you push back against it and you get banned for “bringing up politics” 👍
I fucking hate it when I join a gaming space and see people using slurs and when I complain they’re just like “that’s not a slur here”
That’s not even why Bridget was dressed as a girl. She was raised as if she was female (which it turned out she is) due to a superstition in the village she grew up in around same-sex twins.
TLDR comment in image implies she originally dressed the way she did to lure guys into “gay” relationships, but she actually did that to escape a curse
director literally came out saying the world wasn’t mature enough to accept Biscuit as trans on her initial release, and here these shits are proving they *still* aren’t
These type of ppl will say these slurs bc it’s the “norm” for them. I hate how they use it so casually too. It’s unfortunately very common for these popular gaming subs to be very transphobic along with racist, sexist, and misogynistic.
I really think that’s up there as the most misogynistic and vile anti-trans slur. I’m not even into men, and the idea that the most important thing I’ve ever done for myself is ultimately for male attention? It’s so obscenely degrading, even aside from the predatory subtext that contributes to trans women getting murdered.
Like, call me a tr**** or a sh***** instead. I would genuinely prefer it.
I also got told “Before Bridget was retconned that was literally the characters thing. Get over it.” On top of that I joined a server for a revival of a dead Spider-Man mobile game and the transphobia was awful there too 🙁
Makes me grateful for spaces like these and others, and the supportive friends I have, but it’s annoying how common and accepted this bullshit is
That was how it used to be….it feels like everything has gone full circle in the last decade, from a push for acceptable behavior to lax standards and hate speech again
I mean, there was this cartoon about a woman in a princess Peach costume, who got beaten and a lot of women didn’t find it funny , me included, and we first got downvoted, then mansplained and now some of us can’t even post and respond there anymore, because the mods are sexist too. So I’m sadly not surprised.
I fucking hate people who start their comments with “buddy”, or worse, “bud”
The fact that it is very much a slur aside…
>A very feminine looking guy who didn’t mention they were a guy to-
Lmao this person clearly doesn’t even know the source material they’re talking about. Most of Bridget’s story and dialogue since guilty gear XX has been her claiming to be a guy, in kind of a ”Sorry to disappoint, but…” tone to it. She never tried to ”trick” anyone, because that is the opposite of what her character was.
She does the same to Goldlewis in Strive, until she realizes that she is forcing herself to maintain a mindset that only makes her unhappy.
Imagine how disgustingly transphobic and porn brained you have to be to casually say that to a stranger. These men are totally lost souls. Its incredible to me they fail to recognize that.
There are way too many people who still feel that word isn’t a slur and it’s a bit unreal.
the reminder that the majority of reddit’s users are just…like that is so sad
Porn & its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Tr*p was always a slur for trans women, “a feminine guy tricking people into thinking they’re a girl for sexual reasons” is literally just the TERF definition of what a trans female is.
ngl that guy doesn’t deserve you censoring their username
Mainly why i refuse to play online games or in any way interact with communities outside of niche groups If you can’t see a trans person existing without having a meltdown maybe you should put the controller down for a bit and rethink some of your life choices.
It is genuinely
annoying though, disheartening and disgusting too. I hate it.
as a trans person agreed.
Being confronted with shit like this all day in media is why trans kids never date to transition it’s internalize there is something fundamentally wrong with them. People(mostly cis men) are so disgusting I swear
Ah yes, someone built this character up to prank straight men. 🤣 I don’t get the fuss, trans women are women so they are still straight. 🤔
sadly it’s i think just because transphobia happens to be, as forrest valkai puts it, a diarrhea slurry of homophobia and sexism.
Joined a discord on trans awareness day, popped into the memes chat to see it filled with vile transphobic shit. Instantly exploded on the person who invited me, and the people in the memes. Well it originally was a discord for vets, and guess who’s a vet, and who wasn’t. Got 5 people banned that day. 🙂 best perk I’ve gotten for my service.
Jesus Christ. I’m sorry.
“buddy isn’t a slur” IM GONNA LAUGH IM SORRY he knew what he was doing it just makes them look stupid
Man :/
It’s terrible. It’s not even the gaming subs, it’s *every* subs very few that don’t tolerate transphobic shit on the daily
That’s not even remotely true about Bridget, either?
She presents female *because thats how she was raised*, and then realised she was more comfortable that way. It’s what leads to her realising she’s trans
At this point I just wake up every day to reassure myself how pathetic m#n are, they just don’t want to be decent human beings
I’m sorry but I barely understood anything this guy was saying and I don’t see any slurs? Is Bridget the slur?
i love brisket guilty gear
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Sorry, what is the slur? I must be missing something
They’re really telling in themselves huh. Like they’re mad their fap material is different now
Also lol at the “it’s not a slur here” like your location changes how language works. I wonder if they also think that there are no pronouns in their favourite games too
They’re so obsessed with trans people it’s saddening
Huh, I honestly thought trap was different.
I thought the idea of a ‘trap’ was specifically that it’s not trans, amab people who identify as men but look and dress like women? Like a less performative drag queen.
I think it’s called Otokonoko in Japan?
Wasn’t the entire point of Bridget’s outfit prior to strive so the people of her village would recognize her when she became famous ontop of just being what she found comfortable to wear?
Sorry if this is super uneducated or what but what is the slur here? Idk a whole lot about slurs for different things (not trying to be sarcastic or anything just genuinely don’t know)
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I literally hate that term when referring to transwomen and transfem individuals because not only does it reduce their existence but it continues to play this narrative that trans people are “deceptive”.
This reminds me of a former friend I had. Emphasis on “former” because THIS is one of the reasons why I cut him out of my life.
Besides his annoying rantings that mean absolutely nothing, but he would go on these tirades on how “woke” people are being a buncha “snowflakes” for not liking the term “Trap” and how this is anime culture and that they have no right to dictate what they should do and it annoys me because trap by definition is to deceive and by continuing to use it, people continue to play up this thing that trans people are liars and predatory which is such an outdated pattern of thinking.
I’ve had it with any sub-culture being like this.
Sorry for ranting. I have a lot of anger towards such terms due to how reductive it is.
Have a great day!
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Wasn’t briskets whole story that she was forced to dress effeminately before ultimately realising she’s happier living her life like that
Slurs aside that’s just not what these weirdos would call a “trap”
I’m confused, is that not a correct subgenre name for a very specific type of porn? Like, if he’s using it to mean ‘porn involving trans people” that would be a slur but I’m assuming there’s porn where the entire point/thing that’s “sexy” is the fact that the male character doesn’t find out about the female character’s anatomy until they start having sex.
Though others have been saying it’s an upsetting enough slur that I’d say even if that is a subgenre name, they need a new one. I would say “need to not make porn of that” but no one can overrule Rule 34, sadly.
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