I’m not an egg anymore, but I found this meme I made several years ago when looking through an old hard drive and wanted to put it on Lemmy.

Image description: Top text says “Me: 100% totally cis male.” Bottom text says “Also me: A girl with girl stuff and girl hair and girl clothes.” The bottom part is actually an image of a Minecraft skin that is posted on Planet Minecraft.

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    10 months ago

    I agree with your statement, playing as a girl character is not what makes you irl a girl. However, this meme isn’t about the character you play as. It’s about the amusing title that the Minecraft skin has, and it’s not a skin I made, so I didn’t choose the title.

    Ah Sorry for the misunderstanding, I thought it was about a person being a girl because they like to play as one. Which obviously isn’t right. A person is a girl because they identify as one. I also wasn’t aware that you didn’t make the skin, that is kind of funny.

    You do realize that is egg_irl, right? This whole community is about being trans in-denial.

    Yeah, I was misunderstanding the meme as saying that a person who does X (X being playing as a girl) is automatically trans-in-denial by the action, rather than admitting to having been in-denial in the past. I say this meaning that a person shouldn’t be told that they are in-denial because ultimately people need to come out when they are ready and you can’t always tell if someone is or isn’t, basically Egg Prime directive.

    I feel like this meme does the exact opposite. Top text essentially says “On the surface I’m a guy” and bottom text essentially says “but actually I’m a girl”. At least to me that doesn’t seem cisnormative.

    Again operating under the idea that the incorrect idea that the meme was about how people breaking gender stereotypes are that gender they’re presenting as. Cisnormative was probably not the right word. I’m stupid and not always good with words.

    Sorry for misunderstanding.