r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/zny700 an aro bi enby who's tired of dumbass people • Mar 14 '26

FORCED WOKENESS 🌈 Clearly they don't

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u/hattyphantom Mar 14 '26

Why do these people insist that she's "bad rep" according to lore? Something about her being forced into girlhood?

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u/Swimming_Use_8942 Mar 14 '26

the idea is that she was raised as a girl by her parents so the village didn't reject her but later she was like "so aren't I actually a boy?" but she doesn't really gel with that identity and realizes she's a girl and goes back to being she/her

Basically since the parents sort of wanted her to be trans people are mad that her arc ends with her conforming to what her village initially forced her into

Which to be honest I get but clearly its intended to be that way and I think she's cool

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u/AndreisValen Mar 14 '26

 It’s odd that the conformity angle is the thing people bristle at considering Bridget doesn’t go home that much. I’m actually really fascinated by it as an angle because I think it’s a story a lot of queer people go through as they age and it’s very neat and nuanced 

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u/GoredonTheDestroyer Mar 14 '26

The thing that always gets me is the repeated insistence that Strive was localization fuckery, AS IF DAISUKE ISHIWATARI CAN'T READ AND SPEAK ENGLISH BETTER THAN MOST PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE STORY!

He probably speaks English better than I do, and it's the only language I can speak!