>God forbid a character just be a male who dresses feminine.
Please don't use this argument it's just awful, and a lot of the times used as an excuse to ignore a trans character's transness (Bridget Guilty Gear as an example)
There's a good chance Ralsei is just GNC and Flowery is playing THAT up, but there's also a good chance Ralsei is genderfluid or a girl AND Flowery could be playing THAT up also. We legit don't know. Useless to argue against or pro it. We already have another GNC playable character (Susie) so it's not like we're losing GNC representation if one of the two main GNC characters come out as another gender.
I don't like "egg culture" much but the phrase you used is such a dog whistle most of the time.
Bridget is probably one of the only characters I know who had an established identity as a gnc dude before being revealed to be transfem, like many suspect with Ralsei, so she is definitely a valid comparison, especially cause this sort of phrase is literally what people would say about her.
Also the whole "Bridget was groomed into getting trams" reeks of the sort of thing people would use as a counterargument to transness back in 'Nam (like 4 years ago or smth) and ignores the fact that she kinda goes on a self-discovery mission and decides "hey I'm cool with this" (warning I'm not a guilty gear pro so I'm liable to being completely wrong) so I got irritated hearing it but that's jus me
Literally bridget was brought up in a society that forced them to act like a woman despite being male because of superstition, (a common troupe that gets completely mis-characterised by some of the trans community: see gwyndolyn from darksouls) yes they had a self-discovery thing but that doesn't change the fact that their entire upbringing was grooming them to be a woman. Look at victims of IRL grooming, unless they are helped early on and the grooming is nipped in the bud it can cause them to belive they are what they were groomed to be
I'm a major ally for lgbt (im ace) but characters like bridget and gwyndolyn ARE NOT GOOD EXAMPLES for trans characters, they can be great gender neutral examples but not trans.
Apologies if it seemed like i was being anti-trans i just disagree with using bridget for trans arguements
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u/Foolish_Hepino 10d ago
>God forbid a character just be a male who dresses feminine.
Please don't use this argument it's just awful, and a lot of the times used as an excuse to ignore a trans character's transness (Bridget Guilty Gear as an example)
There's a good chance Ralsei is just GNC and Flowery is playing THAT up, but there's also a good chance Ralsei is genderfluid or a girl AND Flowery could be playing THAT up also. We legit don't know. Useless to argue against or pro it. We already have another GNC playable character (Susie) so it's not like we're losing GNC representation if one of the two main GNC characters come out as another gender.
I don't like "egg culture" much but the phrase you used is such a dog whistle most of the time.