Headline : I’m a Boy. Does Playing Female Characters in Video Games Make Me Gay?

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I’m a guy “in real life,” but I’ve always played female characters in video games. More and more people say this means I’m either secretly gay/trans or a total creep. Am I allowed to just prefer it? —Gender Player

It sounds like you have a lot of people in your life, Player, who think they know you better than you know yourself. I won’t pretend to have insight into your deepest self, but I can offer some ways of thinking about your choice:

I’m a vegetarian, but I’d eat lab-grown meat. Does that make me a hypocrite? —Chicken Little

Seeing as you’re not grossed out by the idea of meat grown “in a peach tree dish,” as Marjorie Taylor Greene put it, I assume your vegetarianism is ethically or religiously motivated. Hence the fear of hypocrisy—but I don’t think that’s the right word, exactly, for what you’re feeling. A hypocrite is someone who claims moral standards that their behavior flatly contradicts, and lab meat, if we are to believe the hype, promises to be both humane and sustainable. 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. You can have your happy cows and eat them, too.

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