Okay so like Im going through a bunch of my childhood media and just like jesus fucking christ a lot of this stuff is absolutely abhorrent. recently been going through CoD 4, and Dragon Ball Z and like.I guess Id never actually put a whole lot of thought into just the sheer level of genderedness to this stuff but just like holy fucking shit not only is it bad but also its just so unbelievebly hypermasc. The politics on both implicit and explicit are absolutely terrible (Not even getting into CoD basically just espousing an American version of Color Revolution Theory) BUT to get back on point.All of this stuff is getting me to start thinking about just how we raise our boys and the exact media we expose them to and like, this stuff was the absolute most average there was at the time and just holy fuck I cant believe we raise our boys up with such terrible worldviews before theyre even outta like fucking elementary school and shit.Ugh, idk just it makes me really fucking sad. It makes me really fucking sad because I know no matter how much I try to unlearn this shit that I was still exposed to it during my formative years and theres nothing I can do about that.Im glad Ive come far enough that I can see it for being as abhorrent as it is but still.
The military was involved with the development of gaming technology from the beginning, and basically always looked at it as a tool for training soldiers, and propagandizing the youth. So...
>>44042983Well yeah COD is literally CIA funded propagnda. It just made me into a weapons guy instead of a zogbot though.
>>44042983I'm too tarded to care about that stuff. I would chill out with a girl playing cod together after we got bored of perfect dark, my favorite fps, and my favorite db characters were chichi and bulma
>>44043060ftm?
>>44043073I mean. At least for the first parts of my life since I'm one of those sterypical born in the wrong body pick me's apparently. I'm a trans women now tho
Bulma and Future Trunks are both extremely based characters and Future Trunks and Supreme Kai were how I first externalized my desire to be more female in a way that was safe to my then unaware adolecent self. Now I literally just want to be Bulma but the older housewife version. (this still a great pic though)I loved noob tubing or sniping with tac inserts in COD Multiplayer in obscure parts of the map. Never tried to win I just wanted to make other people extremely angry, and I did =)
>>44042983cod 4 is just a masterpiece in general tho
>>44042983And?
you are thinking about it from the perspective of an art critic, not from how i thought about it when i was younger. when i was younger i was like "what!!!!! dude this is the coolest thing ive ever seen in a video game!!" i wasnt being subliminally programmed to want to enlist in the military because of cod4. i just liked that you could use a bunch of different guns and you could see all the cool tech and also i think it was my first exposure to an fps gameplay loop. you are reading into it like a tumblr woman who has never played it or a college student writing an essay
yes a huge chunk of mass media is terrible in the ways you are pointing out>It makes me really fucking sad because I know no matter how much I try to unlearn this shit that I was still exposed to it during my formative years and theres nothing I can do about that.nona don't be too hard on yourself. no one exists outside of the culture they are born into. some of the people here fall into a very toxic spiral obsessively agonizing over gendered thought crimes and fatalist thinking about socialization. that doesn't do them any good. having the discernment to see how our actions sometimes fall short and committing to making them better goes a long way. over time this changes us, and our actions more naturally fall in that better direction.
also, somewhat tangential, but people sometimes fear they will do to others bad things done to them at formative times. that fear can come without there being an underlying drive to do those bad things, but rather an excess of introspection.that position implies a critical evaluation of themselves and their actions, and a correct recognition of the bad things as bad things, which makes the fear quite unlikely to come true.
>>44042983I fucking hate trannies
