It's honestly so funny when homophobes and transphobes play super queer video games without realizing. My favorite examples are one: when Overwatch released Venture(who is nb) and all the gross oily guys who don't have any problem saying racial slurs in vc just couldn't decide how to misgender them were split between calling them "he" or "she" and two: apex legends released catalyst(a trans woman) and everyone was crazy transphobic talking about specifically her as if literally one of FIRST characters ever made for that game wasn't nb and half the roster wasn't lgbt in some way Like honestly you shouldn't be playing games where there's like 10 different CANONICALLY queer characters if you have such a problem with a character's pronouns😭
I know this vid is super duper supportive and stuf...But can we not talk about how at like 14:04 Ky gets his booty Jumped by Brigitte and Mr Secretary of Defense?
'They've transcended human existence, just like me' would have sounded arrogant as all hell if anyone else had said this, but you know what? The man is a god amongst men, he aint wrong.
I think Mizuki’s experience brought me a pang of empathy, because I talk about others behind their backs. It wasn’t an LGBT-related person I was talking smack about, but they also listened to what I said once. I was basically that invisible side-character! Both past and present me agree that it was pretty insensitive and hypocritical. The worst replies can be found online, but is there a way to get a win-win situation, where I’m genuinely not judgemental about people that differentiate while also letting the person stay themselves? Thanks lol
and its crazy just how much of it is normalized in all of our media that a lot of ppl are completely blind to it. that sort of widespread desensitization is genuinely scary to me
you should check out the book "hell followed with us" by andrew joseph white! it explores transness and body horror really well, both literally with the main character being trans, but also in the allegorical way. it is one of my favorite pieces of queer literature, and of horror.
Here on a deep dive from that hbomb list! I love the tone of your videos. They're very tender and full of the kind of attention to detail you only get when you love something. I hope your wedding went well!
This may be weird, I dunno, but as a cis white guy, Bridget finding herself is inspiring. I feel like there's another part of me I'm not looking at, not gender but something else I'm not fixing. I just need to find it. It's somewhere in the town inside me.
Seriously, the message that you shouldn't change who you are and do things that hurt you to make others feel better or out of fear of their reactions is a good one.
this video was a very interesting watch and made me think about a lot of things i hadn’t considered before. some comments were very interesting to read. i’m going to read welcome back alice because it seems like it would be a compelling story, same for inside mari
As an artist from the early social media days, I really hate that everything creative we make has been renamed as "content" by the websites who subsist on our (mostly) free supply of art and communication in order to sell ads in users' feeds. As I understand it, "content" only exists in the context of such websites. Everywhere else, it's your gallery, your book, your film, etc. I think this is why I think "anti-content" has to be a matter of platform as much as unmarketability, since like you said, the unmarketable can become extremely marketable on a feed website. I also want to mention (sorry) tumblr here for a minute, a website whose cockroach-resilient users pride themselves on being unmarketable... and yet when I go on facebook or twitter, a lot of what I see there are recent screencaps of tumblr posts. It's quite marketable, actually. The people who run it and make decisions for it have just been idiots.
Footnote to say that yeah I know people will call a streaming service's library of media "content" too, but I sure don't call my own personal library of DVDs and VHSs "content" - I call it a collection or a library. I think "content mentality" just rots people's brains, as the kids say
I hadn't thought about tumblr in this context, but you're totally right. The same content posted to other platforms does huge numbers on the regular. I'd also toss in the intention of the artist as well. Whether you intend for your work to be seen as "content" vs. a book, film, etc, is something I've also come around on especially since it's so hard to get off these platforms.
@@RickiHirsch Oh definitely! How you view and talk about your own art ties back nicely to what you mentioned about "I have to post this content to the websites for the Al Gore Rhythm" vs. "I want to share my art with the world"
Goodness sakes, those polling numbers for various conspiracy theories are DEPRESSING. But as somebody who repeats this speech to anyone who will listen, of COURSE people who have been isolated and devalued by neoliberalism and capitalism are going to look for SOME reason, ANY reason, to explain why their life is like this now. Of COURSE they're going to be angry. The difference seems to be in "what people choose to be angry at". Angry at minorities and scapegoats, become a bigot. Angry at yourself, become depressed and self-destructive. Angry at Reagan and his ilk, well, you can certainly find no shortage of us talking about it online 😅. Like you said in your conclusion, we need to try to reach out and help each other in response. It's still pretty depressing and we're still stuck in largely the same situation, but it's a damn sight more appealing than the other two alternatives.
I did a double take when I saw them. It's kind of distressing how well NHK has aged considering it was written 20 years ago in response to an economic depression in another country, but that's neoliberalism baybee. Ursula Le Guin has a good quote about how capitalism feels inescapable but so did the divine right of kings. At the end of the day, all we have on this spinning rock is each other. Solidarity was here before capital and will be around after its gone.
Hi! I’m actually someone who just found this video bc I had a clip from the game between a mint haired girl and that guy u said was androgynous. I was so confused to why he had a deep voice bc like Anime (not knowing it was a game) doesn’t do that. So I looked it up and saw a video of a mod about a trans Bridget skin and I was like “what trans in an anime fighting style game”. So then I looked up Bridget and here I am…anyways as a Nonbinary individual this makes my heart happy to see this kind of representation in an “Anime” style kind of game. I’ve been watching Anime (and playing games) my whole life and it’s made me who I am I can’t say again how beautiful this is to see. REPRESENTATION IS SO IMPORTANT! Thank you for coming to my Tedtalk 🧌. Beautiful video by the way definitely subscribing!
as soon as you started naming all the films that are in the body horror genre i was like wait a minute. these are all my favourite films? 😭 alien, the fly, the thing, videodrome, tetsuo the iron man, hellraiser, etc etc are all stuff i watch so so frequently!! this is such a good video
You know, after all this time, I grew to love Bridget even without knowing much about fighting games, I literally just purchased Strive for my cousin a few hours ago and we played a few matches, and now coming here to learn more about Bridget, I am INCREDIBLY disappointed to find out that she's British.
I just think Bridget is annoying as hell to fight against No I'm not talking her sexuality or whatever, that don't mean much for me, I'm here to pot bust that yoyo into heaven
So back when I was in college (around when the series came out) I was genderfluid (though I didn't know what that was at the time). After I started dating my now ex I slowly closeted myself, because I had a female who was replacing who I thought I had created to get rid of those feelings. Before 2020 they asked me why I had given that up, and I explained. They looked kind of sad, knowing that I had discarded part of who I was. So when everything went into lockdown and June came around we both came out: they were non-binary and I was genderfluid. Fast forward a year and I realized that I was right where Bridget was; I couldn't lie to myself anymore. I came out, and that's when things really transitioned, not just me but my life as well. They didn't want a wife, they wanted a husband, and I was no longer presentable to the family. They outed me to their mom, hoping I would stop, but it didn't work. We got divorced, but I rarely looked back. I know who I am, and am happy with who I am, even if it cost me my spouse, and at one point almost my job. I'm still the creative, fun loving person I always was, but now I just want what most people do: a safe little place to call my own and live a normal life. Being on the streets has been rough, but I'm me, and that's a truth I refuse to hide again.
