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I’m a Boy. Does Playing Female Characters in Video Games Make Me Gay?
I'm a boy. Does playing female characters in video games make me gay? This week's #WIRED CloudSupport column:
Choosing a female character might simply be an acknowledgment of parts of yourself that you’ve felt compelled to repress in ordinary life—not a sign that you’re living in the wrong body, necessarily, just evidence that your mode of gender expression has become too narrow. Like many technological solutions that transform a vice into a neutral choice (clean energy, NA beer), it cancels out the moral calculus and relieves us of the duty to make sacrifices for a better world, or a better self. I imagine you became a vegetarian not because you truly believed your individual actions would change the world, but because you liked the idea of being the kind of person who was willing to do difficult things and make sacrifices for higher ideals.
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