jackjustjack commented at 2023-07-29 19:30:11 » #2820853

I only see two girls and the femboy from guilty gear.

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Ezalias commented at 2023-07-29 22:05:40 » #2820876

Bridget was assigned female at birth.

Bridget's entire deal, as a character, was correcting people who misgendered... him.

Now every thread's gotta be this performative signalling, trying to start shit over retroactive pronouns. Aggressively ignoring what the character told EVERYONE, when he looked like this. When he was a he. When he was vehemently, vocally, foundationally, a boy in a dress.

A character dedicated to performing gender, in spite of his looks. Dead set on being a manly-ass bounty hunter in his own way. TERFs and other fascists call trans women "confused," but Bridget was never confused about a damn thing. He knew exactly what he was about. And it amounted to kicking ass, correcting pronouns, and being cute as fuck.

If anything, he shouldn't have needed to do violence, to prove himself. The desire to be respected was sufficient. And that desire was crystal fucking clear, despite all societal pressure treating him like a girl. And now apparently that pressure won... and we're supposed to be thrilled.

Notice how everybody's down with Testament being nonbinary. That makes perfect sense. It fits beautifully. But this? This was a betrayal. This was an act of BREAKING a queer icon. The universally-understood archetype for non-gender-conforming twinks making Kinsey Ones question themselves.

It's tantamount to having Astolfo start wearing a suit and tie exclusively. Except, even that wouldn't fuck up the character as hard as this did, because the phrase "back when he used to wear skirts" wouldn't have well-meaning fools insisting he always dressed the way he dresses now.

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Fina2112 commented at 2024-10-18 17:49:44 » #2928213

The character was changed by the creator. Characters are allowed to grow, and change. You sound really upset about something thats a really minor change all things considered.
Bridget isn't even central to the story. If it were Sol saying "oh yeah I was a trans man the whole time" I could get your reaction. But this? This is a rant that feels unhinged.
Sure she's said "I'm a boy" before. But... here's the thing. Thats really common in a lot of trans women's narratives. It seems to me that you don't have a lot of experience talking with trans people, and thats fine. You can learn and talk and grow just like Bridget did. But there is no reason to be this upset about something that literally doesn't affect you.
Now pipe down grandpa, and get back to jerkin' it to anime girls.

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BaconMinion commented at 2024-10-18 18:17:11 » #2928216

Sure is progressive to have a character misgendered his whole life, to the point where he finally cracks under the pressure and just accepts being labeled as a female, up to and including just calling himself the gender that society pushes onto him, rather than try to keep correcting people that he's a biological male.

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CzarnianAegis commented at 2024-10-18 18:26:55 » #2928218

Do we really have to argue about this every time someone posts a picture of Bridgette?

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Marleyansimp commented at 2024-10-19 09:21:50 » #2928382

^ Tell me about it it's tiring

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jedi1357 commented at 2024-10-19 11:14:58 » #2928428

I don't think these comments break the rules enough to delete yet. Just going to throw this out. According to original Japanese lore Bridget cross-dresses and acts feminine as a disguise to hide identity from enemy. Anything and everything regarding Bridget being transsexual was for the English release of the latest game only.

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