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- May 23, 2020
Can’t believe I missed this post but fucking yikes. I feel you with the whole being a female gamer surrounded by men as that’s my situation too, it’s hard to find women who like the same shit as me and aren’t put off by my spergy obsession with certain games and dislike of/apathy towards more typical girly things.So, I’m a woman with a lot of male friends who are hardcore gamers. Like, they enter tournaments frequently for games like League, Smash Bros., Street Fighter, etc, do speedruns and streams and whatnot.
Every other day it seems I wake up to another friend or acquaintance trooning out. One of them told me that they were thinking of naming themselves after me, that I “inspired” them. It gave me chills. I don’t think they’re a bad person or anything, but something about that just...REALLY didn’t sit well with me.
Because I’m female it feels like I’m expected to provide more emotional support to all the transwomen I know, validate them whenever, tell them how pretty they are, listen to them prattle on about how much they love being lesbians etc. It’s getting exhausting. Even after COVID restrictions lift, I don’t know if I wanna return to the tournament scene if I have to walk on eggshells and constantly use “validating” language all day. Live and let live is usually my motto but this goes beyond that. It’s not enough to be friendly and polite, I have to serve as a constant morale booster for these mentally ill individuals.
It’s all so tiring.
I want to play games, get my ass beat and hand others their asses in turn. Not play nurse to asylum inmates.
Nobody I know personally has trooned out but I did receive a Facebook friend request from someone who knew a few of my friends, had a female name and no selfies, just a profile pic of a dragon, and I added them, not thinking much of it. Turned out to be an old high school classmate of said friends who’d just come out as trans, and also claimed to be polyamorous and have a split personality. He messaged me to ask something about D&D, and since I’m always down to talk nerdy I replied and nothing weird came up in the convo, but just about every post on his wall was either lefty activist nonsense or textbook AGP horny posting - hentai for days, “gender euphoria” from wearing pleated skirts and programmer socks, and yes, the inevitable mention of his “feminine” wang. I unfriended him after seeing him share a meme about receiving oral while playing a video game, and he’d tagged some other troon that he was dating online and captioned it “this is gonna be us when we meet up - I’ll be gaming while you go down on my girldick/eventual vagina”. He didn’t seem to notice I deleted him, thankfully, but it was horrifying, especially to know that these people exist in such close proximity to me and aren't just an internet phenomenon.
It’s also disheartening to see trannies, along with their woke feminist defenders, become the face of women in some fandoms that are already male dominated - in the WH40k thread I listed off a bunch of notable female fans, all of which are either troons or just woke types with pronouns and sexuality in bio. Just the other day I discovered yet another troon in the fandom when looking for a stream of Dark Heresy. The receding hairline was an immediate giveaway even before he opened his mouth to speak. Like dammit I just want to enjoy my grimdark without having to run into identity politics.
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