Great article!
I have a problem with the current gaming technology.
I want to look feminine and beautiful in real life, BUT....
If I make a very beautiful character in an open-ended roleplaying game (Skyrim, New Vegas, MMORPG games, etc), I play the character for loooooong periods of time staring at her and making her even more prettier, I start thinking this character is me, then I look at myself in the mirror and I feel really bad that I can't achieve the perfection I have created in-game.
Sooo... what if I make an ugly female character so this way when I look at the mirror, I feel much better about myself? This way I can smooth out the incongruency
Not exactly a female character but let's pretend it is! If I could "download" myself into virtual reality, a world where I can customize myself however I want, then I wouldn't need to make ugly female characters! Oh how I wish when the day would come when you can change what you are born into! By changing, I mean changing every single atom in your body. Your chromosomes, your skeletal figure, etc.... everything
Cisgendered women blessed with good genetics would see the world like we see video games. To the ciswomen, the real world is their world. To us, the video games is our world. If only the video game world was actually our real world