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Anon pretends to be a girl online (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

There are a few reasons I can think off:

  1. Trick people;
  2. Get items;
  3. ~~egg~~ Experimenting the thought of not being your current gender.

But just like the anon described, it's one of the first two.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

just to get items

also some minor mental illnesses but we don't talk about that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

also some minor mental illnesses

I don't like to call it "mental illnesses" because it makes it look like it's a property of the person; however, it is a property of society:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

honestly when i was a kid i always picked male characters (despite being afab) because "the clothes looked better", fast forward a couple of years, i transitioned to male and i realised i used video games as my main escape from worsening gender dysphoria

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

same as an amab I always used to play women cause they got better clothes. I am not trans tho, I mean probably not.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Girls just have better clothes in general. I like clothes shopping with my daughter all the outfits and dresses are so cute and fun, theres so much variety! Clothes shopping for my son is such a bore :/

For reference I am dad, and theyre both in elementary school.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Men's clothing has better pockets tho. We need to normalize big pockets on all clothing. Also normalize pink men's clothing to make it less boring

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I knew a guy who used that exact same reasoning to play female characters. It's funny how the way you want to look in a videogame can sort of tap into subconscious desires sometimes.

"Obviously I couldn't dress like that IRL because of gender rules, but since I can choose my gender in this game..."

It's sort of like The Button thought experiment.