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Cake day: January 11th, 2022

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  • Also, a lot of people seem to think that being a kid means that you just play videogames or whatever all day

    Other people have commented on the more important points, so I’m gonna add to this one

    The biggest reason a lot of kids do nothing but “stay home and play video games all day” is because they literally have nothing better to do, the car-dependent suburbs that are very common in North America (which are often considered “great places to raise children”) leave kids with an inability to do anything (such as hang out with friends or go to public places) without their parents driving them around, so if their parents won’t/can’t do that then there’s nothing really else to do than just stay home, so the kids can’t have any real “freedom” until they become old enough to drive

    As well, kids often aren’t even allowed to be given any level of independence these days, with things as simple as “a kid being outside on their own” (even just within their family’s property, if the neighbors are being narcs) being something that can be reported to the police and the parents potentially losing custody over

    It’s okay though, we’re totally not a dystopian police state, right? /s

    I think this video has good info on this








  • I don’t know that much about Astolfo, but they seem closer to implied nonbinary than a strict femboy, though I could be wrong

    Bridget is also a character I think of because she used to get this treatment a lot before she was recently explicitly confirmed as a trans girl

    From what I’ve heard from a friend who cares more about anime than I do, Ferris definitely seems like one of those characters who’s basically a trans girl but everyone pretends is a trap “femboy”, partly due to the source material not handling it well


  • That’s because it is, there’s also an aspect of transphobia to it because they’re usually rebranding of “trap” memes, for which the point was always to fetishize trans women’s bodies while denying us our gender identity and rights (this is especially obvious when certain characters used in said memes are literally trans women in canon)


  • Glad someone’s saying it, big agree, the current obsession with “femboys” is literally the same shit with a different name, it’s even using the exact same anime/game characters that people were calling “traps” a few years ago

    (Edit: before someone complains, obviously I’m not against the existence of femboys, I’m against people spreading the same harmful “trap” memes wordswapped to “femboy”, and how people still use it to describe characters who aren’t even boys and are often closer to trans women or nonbinary)