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Okay, be honest, how many of you were transed by vibeo game (CW: Transphobia)

One of the most problematic parts of this horrible game is the ability for players to upload their own "skins" – essentially, each player can create a character for themselves in simple photo editing apps such as photoshop. This means that the selection of characters is limited only by the players' imaginations. On the surface, this seems to be a positive of the game, but it turns out that it is not.

This unlimited customization dangerously blurs the boundaries of gender and sex, and, especially considering the predominantly young player base of Minecraft, can be very confusing in terms of gender. One of these confused young people is my son, now 21 years old, who, it turns out, had been using the default "girl" skin of Minecraft, often shown in marketing alongside a more fitting masculine character. While this is not concerning on its own, having done so since the age of 11 will surely have contributed to his gender confusion.

Ever technically minded, my son set up a multiplayer server to play with his boyfriend when they were 14 years old and just started dating. Unfortunately, due to Minecraft's neglectful failure to include any filters or safeguards against dangerous and confusing ideological statements, it served as a funnel for the two of them to encourage each other in their "transitions." Yes, that's right – my son's boyfriend is also gender confused. What's worse is that these two, who are perhaps the worst possible people for each other, are engaged to get married in a "lesbian" wedding later this fall. I, of course, was not invited. Heaven forbid I try to save my son from his horrible confusion.

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  • Yes, that's right my son's daughter's boyfriend girlfriend is also gender confused trans. What's worse is that these two, who are perhaps the worst best possible people for each other, are engaged to get married in a "lesbian" wedding later this fall.

    I, of course, was not invited.
    Heaven forbid I try to save remove my son daughter from his her horrible confusion happy life.

    In short,

    • good lord i don't think i've ever posted that many Ls on the internet before. what a miserable person. i hope they get even sadder

  • Rebranding "videogame violence is responsible for all the things we dislike" to "videogames including women as a character option is responsible for my child becoming trans".

    I, of course, was not invited. Heaven forbid I try to save my son from his horrible confusion.

    Get fucked.

  • The website is really fucking funny. The goofy acronym name and the fact that it has an entire category just titled SONS just makes it seem like something out a comedy

    Also, as much as he tries to pin the blame for his child turning out trans on Minecraft and the ability to freely customise your avatar, the author gives the game away entirely here

    This means that the selection of characters is limited only by the players' imaginations

    My dude, the "gender confusion" was coming from inside the house all along

  • That article is easily the funniest PITT has ever posted, I'm glad someone posted it here for all of us to laugh at collectively!

    Here's another fun fact about PITT ("Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans", very funny acronym): about two years ago they decided they wanted their Wednesday posts to all come from detransitioners. That worked for maybe a month, but clearly they massively overestimated how many detransitioners would be willing to write shitty transphobic articles for their shitty transphobic newsletter. For another month or two Wednesdays just didn't have posts, until one Wednesday it was a normal post from another shitty parent and that's what it's been since. They just quietly dropped Detransitioner Wednesdays because they couldn't find people to write them. So funny.

  • I was “gay” in high school, but used a girl from a yuri anime to represent myself a lot online at the time (my then bf used the character’s love interest it was a whole cringe/cute thing) and one of my friends asked if I was trans because of it and I was like “lol no it’s just a thing”

    Anyway, like a week later I was playing RuneScape and the quest where you have to change your gender at the makeover mage to beat a puzzle and I started to feel weird when all the npcs would call you “miss” or “girl” so I messages my friend like “actually maybe”

    and that’s how video games and anime transed my gender

    • I think I had a similar experience but it didn't really register during that quest, instead I went back to the makeover mage years later and just told all my friends I was doing the quest then.

  • What gives a parent the right to "save" their adult children from so-called "confusion"? I hate that controlling nature. Good that the author wasn't invited, what a shitstain of a human.

  • Once again Substack provides space and publicity for the meanest kind of Internet bigotry. I don't know why anyone would want their writings to appear next to this trash.

  • Little did we know, this seemingly innocent game was a gateway drug to cross-sex hormones, wrong-gender pronouns, and a replaced name.

    Fucking tagline honestly, I mean I wish I could write a bit this good

  • I like the implication that, instead of unlimited customization, you must tell someone your correct gender. And no, you can't just tell the game what you want, so it would have to be some gender authority who over sees bibio games who then offers you a limited selection of customization.

    It would also presumably be the same person who checks children's genitals before they're allowed to play sports in elementary school just in case the woke mind virus tries to corrupt the purity of competition of 4th grade wrestling.

  • One of my earliest signs of being trans actually comes from minecraft. I thought the girl skins were all very cute, and I downloaded one for myself and used it for like 10 minutes, before quickly switching back because I was terrified that any of my friends would notice. So yeah, I'd say minecraft is responsible for turning me into a homosexual transgender marxist

  • Big oof, it's impostor syndrome time. I'm trying to remember when I first started playing femme characters as my mains in various games, and I don't think it was very long before my egg started to crack. At the time, I explained it away by pointing out that I had a much easier time coming up with feminine names to fit a specific character/build (because of fucking course I am a nerd with a copy of the Silmarillion on my desk, and I'd thumb through the Elvish dictionary at the end to combine root words and suffixes to come up with names for characters). At least back in the WoW Burning Crusade/Lich King era, those were usually alts and all of my mains that I rotated between for raiding and whatnot were still male. (I mean, honestly -- how the hell are you going to come up with an appropriate avatar for a death knight named "Goofus" with Blizzard's femme orc options? To say nothing of the femme Tauren models not really fitting the Masters of the Universe villain vibe that is implied by the name "Burgor.") My first Skyrim character was an Imperial named after

    . In ESO, I just made one of my (male) cats as a derpy Khajiit. I don't think I switched off of the regular Steve body in Minecraft until a few years back; I always play first-person, so the avatar never really mattered much to me.

    My first fem main character that I can remember was a hobbit Valkyrie build that I slapped together for my brief stint in Lord of the Rings Online, and I think I did something similar in Guild Wars 2. I also remember liking the female Barbarian voice actor better than the male one in Diablo 3; when I came back to D3 several years ago to try out the seasonal mechanics, I pretty much exclusively played femme characters, aside from my original monk from 2012 who was still decked out in his auction house yellows (no, I did not pay real money for them). The D3 femme Necromancer may have been the first time I experienced extremely intense gender envy. This was also around the time I started almost exclusively playing female Breton builds in Skyrim, ostensibly because I was min/maxing for magic resist for runs on Legendary (but also because the Skyrim male Breton model has a really fuckin' weird hairline). But yeah, this was all within the past 5-6 years or so, and I didn't start identifying as trans or even genderfluid until 2020-2021.

    Looking waaaaay back, though, I suspect that I was getting some low-level gender euphoria from playing as a femme blood elf fire mage back in my WoW days. I remember feeling this giddy sense of contentment, like my male mains were a day job that I dreaded and this was a nice break. Has anyone else had that?

    • (I mean, honestly -- how the hell are you going to come up with an appropriate avatar for a death knight named "Goofus" with Blizzard's femme orc options? To say nothing of the femme Tauren models not really fitting the Masters of the Universe villain vibe that is implied by the name "Burgor.")

      Back in the day I had a Tauren Druid alt that was named Posilac. Very few people got the reference.

      • See, kids these days will just name their Tauren "Mommymilkers" and pat themselves on the back for being clever. And by "kids," I mean grown-ass adults who should know better than to steal Zoomer valor and just show a little damn creativity, you know?

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