Genuinely a poor decision. Bridget was the clearest possible distinction between non-gender-conforming and trans. The character’s gender identity was unambiguous, and that was the point. Nearly anyone else in Guilty Gear would’ve made more sense and caused less hassle.
Plus, they missed the tremendous opportunity to introduce Bridget’s twin as the most butch baby-faced transgirl, and say their parents got it completely backwards.
Have you seen the slap fights on Wikipedia that happened during the great edit war of Brisket? So many people who had never interacted with Wikipedia at all, suddenly turning into expert researchers. So many Gamers™ crying out, simply because Youtube, and other/similar sites, aren’t considered a proper source.
Just witnessing the event unfold in real time back then, was well worth the trouble in my humble opinion.
On image boorus, you can almost hear the moderators heave a deep sigh every time it comes up. Because - there’s decades of fanart, all tagged male. Quite a friggin’ lot of it has unironic comments going A: ‘What a cute girl!’ B: ‘How do you feel about surprises?’, back when person A was objectively incorrect. Do you retag all those pictures as female, even when it’s a screenshot of Bridget telling someone ‘I am a dude?’ How do you handle the “genderswap” tag? Do you disambiguate the pre-Strive and post-Strive versions, like the eight different Ashes Ketchum, or the fewer-than-you’d-think Links?
Underlining the issue - everyone hears about Testament and just goes ‘oh.’
Genuinely a poor decision. Bridget was the clearest possible distinction between non-gender-conforming and trans. The character’s gender identity was unambiguous, and that was the point. Nearly anyone else in Guilty Gear would’ve made more sense and caused less hassle.
Plus, they missed the tremendous opportunity to introduce Bridget’s twin as the most butch baby-faced transgirl, and say their parents got it completely backwards.
Have you seen the slap fights on Wikipedia that happened during the great edit war of Brisket? So many people who had never interacted with Wikipedia at all, suddenly turning into expert researchers. So many Gamers™ crying out, simply because Youtube, and other/similar sites, aren’t considered a proper source.
Just witnessing the event unfold in real time back then, was well worth the trouble in my humble opinion.
On image boorus, you can almost hear the moderators heave a deep sigh every time it comes up. Because - there’s decades of fanart, all tagged male. Quite a friggin’ lot of it has unironic comments going A: ‘What a cute girl!’ B: ‘How do you feel about surprises?’, back when person A was objectively incorrect. Do you retag all those pictures as female, even when it’s a screenshot of Bridget telling someone ‘I am a dude?’ How do you handle the “genderswap” tag? Do you disambiguate the pre-Strive and post-Strive versions, like the eight different Ashes Ketchum, or the fewer-than-you’d-think Links?
Underlining the issue - everyone hears about Testament and just goes ‘oh.’
There’s clearly a difference between fanart, and an article meant to inform people.