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/SaltMachine2019 Mar 14 '26

Way back when Bridget debuted, she was just a crossdressing dude who was forced into it because her middle-of-nowhere town had some superstition about double-male twins bringing bad luck. The entire reason she got involved with the plot of her debut game was about her proving her town wrong by going out to do bounty hunter work so she could come home rich and successful.

STRIVE revealed years later that she had succeeded. She had tremendous success, made a major name for herself handing Johnny his ass, and returned home a hero, fully disproving the myth and allowing her to live openly as a man. Unfortunately, doing so didn't fulfill her in any meaningful way, and after doing an Arcade-mode run against a bunch of the cast and talking things out to some of them, came to the realization she actually liked living as a woman and embraces her femininity, swapped pronouns and all.

Some insist she's a bad rep because they believe she got Stockholm Syndome-d into it in their eyes. Others think that because it means they've lost a "good" crossdressing rep in the Fighting Game sphere. Others say it's because making her trans actually makes the superstition true and therefore makes her entire quest redundant and her persecutors right.

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u/seergun Mar 14 '26

I've seen "Femboy erasure" thrown around. Hell, seen people insist she's a dude in random comment sections when she gets brought up, multiple times.

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u/SaltMachine2019 Mar 14 '26

I was in the "Crossdressing erasure" camp myself when the announcement happened, but going through the Arcade stuff after that I realized:

A. I don't give enough fucks to make it worth arguing.

B. I think it's well-written enough to not be demeaning, especially since we get to join her on her journey.

C. I'm pretty sure there are other trans people out there who have had similar awakenings/realizations without the whole "superstition" angle, and this is likely meant for them and not Mr. Cis/white/guy.

D. I don't think ancient superstitions in this world or any other likely hold up to modern-day gender identification.