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  1. i really dug this hour long video essay about VRChat, gender play, and how platforms are shaped by the historical accident of the communities that form them. youtube.com/watch?v=5v_Dl7i4Bcw
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      still thinking about this. i am continually drawn to things which find non-normative gender or sexuality within otherwise straight and cis contexts. there's so much rich queer experience outside the things people like to label that way.
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        and I don't especially think it's valuable or helpful to label this stuff as queer, when it's cis-genderedness or heterosexuality is one of it's defining traits @v21/1151814848424161281
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          maybe this is me being old or old-fashioned, though - I definitely feel the temptation to moan about kids these days with their ever more precise demarcations of sexuality and gender (and also much more widespread acceptance of openly queer identities)
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            like, maybe this is in part nostalgia for the formative memories of youth, delighting in wearing a dress at a fancy dress party and jerking off my straight (???) friend in a spirit of experimentation.
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              don't ruin those precious memories for the kids by calling them eggs, I guess is what I'm saying