Because if playing a female character confuses young boys' genderes, surely playing a mal characte will certainly not confuse young girls in their gender identities.

You see, that's the neat part: this would never even occur to them. The thought that there could potentially be such a thing as trans men doesn't even occur to these people. And when it does, they think of them as poor misguided victims, because of course women would jealously desire to become men, the superior sex. Everybody wants to be a man, obviously.

One of the reasons that they're so obsessed with trans women is that the very concept that someone would actually prefer to be a woman shakes the foundations of their patriarchal view of the world and its rigid gender binary.

playing a pokémon game in the world where this parent got what they want:

"are you a boy? or are you a girl? please upload a picture of your birth certificate"

I love how the paragraph opened with how anyone can upload their own skins, and use simple photo editing and have unlimited creative freedom. But then in the back half of the second paragraph they reveal that their kid has been using the default female character the whole time. So none of that customization stuff anyway, the game said "boy or girl" on boot, they picked "girl", and that's that.

I am mostly here dying over “more fitting masculine character” when talking about a fucking series of 5 rectangular prisms.

But if your playing a 3rd person perspective game starring at a man's ass might turn you gay.

I hope this doesn't come across as too semantic, but I dunno, I bet you can understand them. They're just stupid! They will do anything to avoid blaming themselves, accepting they were wrong, or simply accepting their daughter. It's gotta be that got dang vidya game's fault! Everyone knows that games have been indoctrinating children into devil worship since at least as far back as the invention of D&D!

Understanding them is easy. It's empathizing with them that is damn near impossible

No, no, you don’t understand. Girls play girls games, boys play boys games. /s

I've been playing Tomb Raider since I was 7. First TR2, then TR3, and TR4. Lara Croft led me by the hand through middle school. It took years of watching her wiggle her butt in cramped spaces for the spell to take effect. By the time I entered high school, the vicious kuffars at Core Design had a hold of me : I was certain I was a murderous bourgeois british girl loosely based on Indiana Jones. I even asked my mom to make me a costume, complete with foam guns.

Then I started playing Crash Bandicoot ....

It's PacMAN, not PacWOMAN!

It's been a long time since I played it but isn't minecraft first person? It's only other players who would see you skin.

these people will confess their child's immeasurable stupidity before accepting maybe you can't just kinda turn trans from looking at and playing as girls. well, maybe if he stopped looking at vaugely feminine coded video game skins and started looking at men like a real cis straight man he would have turned out just fine!

"oh no! my child saw two men kiss for one (1) second! will he have his entire sense of human society and social interaction annihilated irrecoverably for the rest of his life and turn gay caused by his inherited inability to process incoming information, leading to an immediate internalization of anything?"

Lmfao no way this isn't satire

They think young kids have photoshop?